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 **Source book**: Stolen Souls
+Switching back to the residential situation for a moment, another extraction technique that many teams like
+is replacing the household Renraku Manservant drone
+with one that has been modified by drone riggers. The
+Renraku Manservant has been intentionally designed
+to feature many safety measures to assuage fears that
+these drones, designed by Renraku to help with household chores, can never go out of control and become
+wannabe Deuses. The Manservant is limited in how fast
+it moves, and how strong it is. Plus, it generally has a
+panic button just in case it malfunctions and residents
+need to call corp security for assistance. By replacing the
+actual Manservant with a modified one that you control,
+a runner team gains another advantage that the unsuspecting extraction targets won’t be expecting. These
+modified Manservants have been redesigned to move
+at the same movement speed as any metahuman, and
+they have the strength to restrain a subject, ensuring that
+if a family extraction goes down, the family members
+have fewer options to flee. The manservant drone can
+be used to lock down possible alternate escape routes
+(e.g., breaking the lock for the back door to make sure
+it remains locked, or sealing any windows that are capable of being opened) and can decrease the chances
+that one or more of the family members may escape
+from the house and blow the extraction job. But they
+are often used in another helpful manner. While infiltrating the house, a modified Manservant drone can carry out its household chores as normal, but in doing so,
+it can seek out any firearms that may be in the house
+and unload their ammunition, or possibly replace the
+ammunition with blanks. If the weapons are stored in
+lock boxes, Manservant drones can hide the lock boxes
+during their normal routines, guaranteeing that if someone in the house reaches for a weapon during a violent
+home invasion, they won’t be able to find them in time.
+If you’re wondering if it would be worthwhile to invest in
+this drone, keep in mind that in 2075, nearly three out of
+every four households in North America have a Renraku Manservant or similar model. And nearly half (many
+of which are higher-income households) have two or
+more. So if you are working extraction jobs, chances are
+you’ll find opportunities to utilize this drone.