Biological / Autom
- Name
- Autom
- Taxonomic Class
- Chozo Autonomous Machine / Sterilization Guard Drone
- Homeworld
- SR388
- Known Range
- Chozo underground settlement sectors, sterilized corridors, guarded structures, biological-clearing zones, and abandoned SR388 interior routes
- Power Source
- Ancient power cell, antigravity projector, flamethrower feed, heat shielding, and residual guard programming
- Threat Response
- Hover pursuit, biological-clearing flame discharge, heat-shielded chassis contact, guarded-zone enforcement, and obsolete sterilization logic
- Origin / Deployment
- Chozo manufacture during SR388 settlement; designed to sterilize selected structures and guard underground settlement zones
- Physiological Summary
- The Autom is a Chozo sterilization drone built to keep specific structures clear of biological matter. Its flamethrower and protective shielding make it hazardous in close interiors, while an antigravity drive allows rapid hovering movement without a conventional thruster package.
Overview
The Autom is a Chozo-built sterilization drone associated with underground SR388 settlement structures. Its purpose was not general labor, but biological clearing: keeping certain chambers free of plants, organisms, and unwanted organic growth.
Old source material describes the unit as both a guard and a sterilization machine. That combination explains its aggressive profile inside assigned areas. The Autom is not hunting; it is enforcing an old cleanliness or exclusion command with tools that remain dangerous centuries later.
The display name is preserved here as Autom to match the archive listing convention. The route remains unchanged for compatibility, but the visible record should distinguish this unit from Autoad and other Chozo automatons.
Anatomy And Physiology
The Autom body is compact and hover-capable, built around an antigravity projector rather than conventional thrust. This allows fast directional movement without exhaust wash, a useful trait in delicate interiors where a thruster would disturb tools, samples, or architectural surfaces.
The flamethrower is the primary working system. It is powerful enough that the Chozo designers had to protect the drone from its own output with dedicated shielding. That shielding explains the unit's resistance to heat and concussion relative to many smaller constructs.
Sensor systems likely classify biological matter rather than individual species. Plants, animals, fungal growth, and intruders may all be read as material to purge if they occupy a protected zone. This blunt classification makes old Autom units especially hazardous after context is lost.
Habitat And Range
The Autom is most likely in structures where sterility, guarding, or biological exclusion mattered to the Chozo settlement. Underground corridors, sealed chambers, laboratory-like rooms, and guarded utility spaces all fit the old source profile.
Field evidence includes scorch bands at hover height, heat-glazed surfaces, missing plant growth, sterilized dust patterns, and antigravity interference marks near corners or doors. A chamber may preserve an Autom route even if the unit has gone dormant.
The drone is less likely to roam widely than a failed labor droid. Old records suggest it usually guards a particular part of the underground settlement, which means range should be mapped as assigned zones rather than wandering territory.
Behavior And Ecology
The Autom responds to biological presence inside its protected zone. It approaches, hovers into firing position, and applies flame until the target is removed or disabled. This behavior is simple, but in enclosed SR388 architecture it can be extremely effective.
Because the unit was designed to clear organic matter, it can alter local ecology long after abandonment. Sterilized corridors may lack plant growth or small fauna, creating sharp boundaries between active Autom sectors and adjacent living spaces.
The antigravity drive makes the drone difficult to predict by ground traces alone. Hover movement leaves fewer foot marks than legged constructs, so scorch patterns, heat residue, and sensor tone may provide better behavioral evidence than tracks.
Origin And Development
Autom origin is Chozo manufacture during the SR388 settlement period. The drone was built to guard selected underground structures and keep them clear of biological matter, not to reproduce, adapt socially, or develop through a natural life cycle.
The old source notes that many Chozo machines remained online after abandonment. For Autom, continued operation may not threaten every scouting party, because the unit is tied to assigned sectors. Danger rises sharply when a survey crosses an old guard boundary.
A complete origin file should identify the zone the drone was meant to protect. Heat shielding, antigravity projector condition, flame feed residue, command markers, and the absence of organic growth together tell the history of the machine and its assigned structure.