Dwemer Droid types

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Dwemer Droid types

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Just like the Imperial Soldiers Types, let us imagine some dwemer machines of war variants. There are some rules in it:

1. Star Wars: You are allowed to refer some of your machine types with Star wars droids but you cannot name them similar.

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Dwemer Droideka: A wheeled dwemer machine with some crossbows.
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Dwemer polybow droid: A droideka like machine with crossbows instead of blasters.
2. Army Creation: You must clearly differentiate between all your created troop types using bullets or points. If you believe a little citation is needed, clearly state that aside.

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The troops are divided as polybows, centurions and spheres. Each of them have their own abilities.....
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Dwemer Centurion: Colossal Steel Golems with steam breathing power.
Dwemer Infantry Droid: Small sized droids that are deadly in packs.

Alongside being of different shapes and sizes, each have different.....
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Droids? Dwemer animunculi are the epitome of steampunk.
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Yeah. I always think of them more as Brass Atronachs than anything else. Dwemeri science involves a lot of fantasy aspects that don't exist in real world science and engineering. The Dwemer used alchemy, enchanting and a unique form of magic they called Tonal Architecture in their greatest creations, including Numidium.
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Machines, Droids, Animunculi, Robots, anything. They're all synonyms.
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Not in this context, no. The dwemer automatons aren't purely technologically driven like droids in Star Wars. There's a magical, living essence involved since they all require a soul gem (or in the Numidium's case, the Heart of Lorkhan). I don't really think it's quite correct to call them 'droids' in that case, they're more akin to atronachs from what I understand.
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In Star Wars and the real world, Droids need batteries to work while in Skyrim, they need soul gems to work. There is not much difference between a soul gem and a battery. Anyways, we are here to make types of dwemer machines not discuss about them being droids or others.
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