Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #73 - Drones

Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !

I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀

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The prompt this week is - Drones

Drones are very much in vogue nowadays, whether it's FPV drones being flown for fun or used in warfare as a substitute for artillery, larger drones used for reconnaissance (both for military use and in climate or mapping science), or wheeled drones for delivery and maybe eventually in the form of self-driving cars to cart passengers around. Of course, originally drones were just a variety of communal insect.

Tell me about drones in your setting. Are they machines or bugs ? What are they used for ? Are they widely available or restricted in some way ? What kind of special technology is involved ? How successful are they and how are they used ? Do they create any unexpected or harmful issues ?

Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.

This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.

Guidelines

I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....

• Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
• Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
• Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
• Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
• Prompt replies can be any length.

Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:

• Freewriters
• Scholar and Scribe
• Tabletop / DND
• The Ink Well

It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.