Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Toxin Drone

The Toxin Drone is a type of drone used by the Socialist Union of Voshkod.

History
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Acwald Webster was a lucky Hyur man, he just didn't know it yet.

Hyur Conscript Acwald Webster was stationed near Little Ala Mhigo, and was due for promotion anytime. He was a patriotic man who was proud of his nation, and he had been a guard at the research facility which developed the Desolator Tower, but he was reassigned to the docks and nearby farmland.

He liked strolling the farmlands for the calm and peace nature offered him, and was friends with all the local farmers, who he admired for their ingenuity.

The farmers had access to the local junkyard and frequently had to make farm equipment from the junk in order to run the farms efficiently. One of the farmers, a Hyur man called Wallding Frobisher, only had machines made from the scrapyard, and Webster became good friends with him the day he was stationed there.

On the day the Toxin Drone was created, Webster was making his daily stroll and noticed Frobisher sitting in an armchair near his field, while a jet of water appeared to be racing across the tall-wheat field. Webster could not see the origin of the jet and approached Frobisher with the question if he had strapped a water hose to a dog. Frobisher replied, "Ahh, no, my comrade, I made something easier." Following that, he produced a remote control from one of his sheds and began fidgeting with the controls.

A few seconds later a ramshackle construction stepped out of the wheat field. After it approached the shed, Webster could see that Wallding had built a drone with a sprinkler and 2 water tanks, and a tractor engine, which Wallding explained served as a scarecrow. Webster had seen the Desolator Tower prototype and immediately asked Frobisher if he was allowed to bring this to the military outpost, to which Frobisher agreed if he was allowed to have it back when the scientists were done with it.

The drone was rushed to the military branch, and Webster got his promotion for his suggestion of outfitting the thing with Desolator Defioliant. For his contribution, Frobisher was allowed to hold his drone sprinkler and was given a repair kit for his tractor, along with an ornate hammer and sickle, which he soon used to repair his shed.

After a few military adjustments, the new Toxin Drone was ready for mass production. After the first field and intelligence reports about the Toxin Drone flooded in, the Aquilan Army soon began to realize that they were going to be under the same psychological strain as the armored divisions of the Aquila, who already encountered several new Phobias thanks to earlier drone development of the Voshkod. The name Toxin Drone quickly became an unaccepted word in Guardian barracks, and alternative names, like Deadly Hound became popular. Several universities are now studying the effects of these neuroses and the increase in the fear of the name.

Unfortunately, the Voshkod people also heard the Aquilan rumors of the field drone, and several more inland communities began to fear the drone as much as the enemy. In order to dismiss fear amongst Voshkod people, Frobisher's original design was copied and mass-produced, and Webster & Frobisher were given command of 500 modified Toxin Drones to use as a phone-ordered sprinkler service with the goal to dismiss fear of the drone; after all, who is afraid of the phone-called plumber? The service is a huge success in the Voshkod heartland, but military officers are not very happy with the vandalism Conscripts inflicts on military Toxin Drones in their sudden fits of drunk hilarity.