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IX Mythos Bestiary
The fungi are able to plug brain cylinders into biomechanical constructs and use them to control work
machines or other large and complex devices. These
constructs are rare outside of the fungi homeworlds
since they are heavy and often quite large, making
them difficult to transport.

Control Drones

immobilizing the drone and preserving such a useful
platform from further damage.

Control Drones in Combat
Control drones come in a dizzying variety of shapes, but
many are functionally similar to a flesh golem, minus
the golem’s immunity to magic and with the attached
brain cylinder's mental ability scores and faculties (as

A control drone is a bio-chemical-mechanical creation.

if the brain were possessing the flesh golem with magic

It is partly surgical in nature, mostly organic, and partly

jar). The constructs are designed such that they cannot

cybernetic. Drones come in a variety of forms, but

manage the fine motor control necessary to provide

typically stand well over 10 feet high. For the sake of

somatic components for spells. A brain cylinder has a

accessibility, the controlling brain cylinder is visible in

CR of 6, unless it has extensive magical abilities it can

a clear organic dome on the drone’s top or front. These

use without somatic components, which is exceedingly

drones are mostly fungus with some crab- or spider-

rare.

like parts. The brain cylinder can speak mechanically
through attached loudspeakers.
While most such drones are simply work machines,
they can be adapted for combat, typically through
the installation of grasping limbs or tentacles. The
drones are remarkably resistant to damage. Their
main vulnerability is the brain cylinder itself: if the
cylinder is destroyed, damaged, or simply removed
from its socket, the drone becomes inactive. This
is intentional on the fungi’s part, as a means of
discouraging a slave rebellion.
Usually the drones are only found on
fungi bases where they work in heavy
construction. A rare few drones are huge,
sometimes hundreds of feet tall. On these

more potentially dangerous devices, the
brain cylinders are always placed
on the very top, while typically the
drones’ grasping limbs are placed so
that they cannot protect the cylinder
from above. Thus, in case of a massive
drone going rogue, a mi-go can simply fly
down from above and remove the cylinder,

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