Zerg-bot

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Zerg-bots

Zerg-bots, mechanical recreations of zerg, are a class of battle-bots.

Overview

The Ghost Academy utilizes zerg-bots in training simulations. These include replications of zerglings, hydralisks and defilers, all of which mimic their organic counterparts actions. The defiler's plague ability is substituted for by a flammable gas that induces paralysis. A controller (such as Sarco Angelini) oversees and controls the robots actions. Zerg-bots are capable of learning and adjusting to ghost trainee tactics.

To ensure further accuracy, the use of technopathy is forbidden against the robots.

A mechanical ultralisk

Robotic hydralisks are used in the training of the Dominion Reaper Corps at the Icehouse.

Civilian uses for zerg robotic drones are also not uncommon, and Axiom Ordnance utilized drones made to resemble mutalisks in their attempted promotional advertisement for the Warhound.

Project Simulant was able to construct a variety of zerg simulants, with replicant strains ranging from breeds as simple as the drone, to those as advanced as the brood lord and ultralisk. However, the project ended in disaster, as the simulants ran rampant, destroying the lab.

While stranded on Bel'Shir, Egon Stetmann created an army of mechanical zerg named the Mecha Swarm, which were augmented with terran and protoss technology, in order to protect the "sacred ground" he worshiped.

Notes

It is unclear whether zerg-bots are related to simulants and the Mecha Swarm, or a separate form of technology. Simulants use creep while Mecha Swarm doesn't (but they use fields of Egonergy), and zerg-bots have scarce or nil in-game presence, being possibly more primitive constructs.