Editing Machine Army (section)

====Eagleton Quarantine====
Maybe once every year or two, the Machine Army in Eagleton would pull a new trick or piece of research that would then be incorporated into their arsenal:
*'''Big cannon-drones'''. The people on the perimeter had to be wary of these drones because of their serious destructive power.<ref name="II20.1 eQuarantine" />
*'''Slave-drones'''. Also known as slave mechs. These drones specifically captured people to use as both hostage and power supply. If a captured hostage had powers and/or a [[trigger event]] while captured, the relevant machine would try to borrow the hostage's powers to empower itself.<ref name="II20.1 eQuarantine">At the quarantine site, Protectorate capes and the rare Ward who couldn’t be put in front of the public would be given the busywork of keeping tabs on the site.  Capes who had problematic powers that would hurt the PRT’s place in the world.  Capes who had broken too many rules or succumbed to their problems.  Machines would plant seeds for future machine growth in any solid surface, set up traps, and refine resources.<br><br>Maybe once every year or two, they pulled out a new trick, a new piece of research.  The big cannon-drone was one such trick, serious destructive power that the people on the perimeter would have to be wary of.  There were slave-drones, that captured people, and tried to borrow their powers.  There were meat lockers, named by one of the perimeter officers, that ran computers that were organic, not technology, and acted with fervor and unpredictability.<br><br>There were protocols for if they developed flying.  People to call, tinkertech that was held in reserve, to bring a hellish lightning storm down on Eagleton.  There were protocols for shielding and intelligence and whatever else. - [[Last 20.1]]</ref><ref>'''Encounter 4:''' The Machine Army is making a stab at punching through the defensive lines, whether those lines are the perimeter & trench successfully established in E1 & E2, or the new perimeter that formed when the defensive line backed up & spread out further. They're utilizing Slave Mechs now, 2-ton bipedal robots with captured civilians trapped in the centers as power sources and hostages.
:Objective: Defeat the Mechs.<br><br>Bonus Objective: Defeat the Mechs without killing the civilian hostages.<br><br>Bonus Objective (not stated to players): figure out that one of the civilian hostages has powers and/or triggered while captured. It's empowering the mech the civilian is plugged into, and making it act different. Figuring this out provides clues about the 'boss fight' at the tail end of the encounter. Broadcasting it to the broader network of capes accelerates/clarifies just what's going on: that the resurrection Trump that's been in the background of the entire campaign is being made a part of the broader Machine Army network, to infuse the entire system with the ability to self-resurrect.
And so on. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://redd.it/eksi1h -->
*'''Meat lockers'''. These drones specifically ran organic computers instead. They acted with fervor and unpredictability.<ref name="II20.1 eQuarantine" />

They did not develop flight, shielding, or concerning intelligence during quarantine.<ref name="II20.1 eQuarantine" />