Insectoid

Insectoids are multi-task miniature drones, created by the Homelanders. They are stored within their bodies, ready to be launched and used.

Overview
Over the course of time, the Homelanders developed a very high demand of light and mobile local scanning mechanisms, that could perform the tasks unrealizable by conventional means of area research, such as satellites.

With the rapid development of cerain biotechnologies, that demand had become even more explicit, focing the Homelanders to look for the ways to create such scouts. Satellites could not travel to undersurface locations, such as caves and burrows, and the night observations weren't too qualitative due to irremovable night vision flaws.

Because bionanobots being occupied by keeping planetary programming operable, the Homelanders created a line of miniature robots that looked like insects, naming them insectoids.

They found a place for the drones within their bodies so newly created scouts will be always available for scanning the area and others tasks.

Functions
Insectoids are primarily used to scan the area and gather data about useful breeds of animals and plants. With their abilitiy to fly at high speed while being small, light and barely noticeable by the living organisms, they are able to perform this task with stunning efficiency.

A second function of the insectoids is limited alterations of living organisms. Each of them carries a set of microscopic instrumets and remedies, which can be used to learn more about inner structure of the living organisms and even to alter them to some degree, mostly changing their behavior for certain projects.

This functions is particulary useful in creating dummies. Because of remedies, such as morphine and cocaine, injected directly in the bloodstream, these procedures are painless and don't cause living organisms any discomfort. All side effects of drugs are eliminated by the secondary remedies and instruments.

A third and currently final function is SSP acceleration of small objects, which functions similar to transferring energy from the black rifts, only smaller in size and consumable energy.

Production
The Homelanders produce insectoids using resources, provided by planetary programming and using their tails to manipulate materials, create necessary temperatures and provide other conditions of construction.

Nanobots are used to produce insectoids automatically, with slightly higher energy demand.

Energy supply
Each insectoid has a highly efficient battery with high energy density, mostly lithium-air or carbon nanofiber one. It allows them to accumulate a lot of energy which can be used for later.

In case of need the Homelanders redirect the black rifts so SSP could go directly inside the drones, powering them with virtually limitless amount of energy.