• Location: Founded in Hope Region, later active across other Beta Age settlements
• Founding Year: 2628
• Founder: Elias Trent, former engineer of the Frontier Engineering Corps (FEC)
• Original Purpose: Salvage, repair, and repurpose drone units recovered after the Crash of the Last Frontier

Drones of Hope Inc. began as a small post-crash salvage workshop and quickly evolved into a vital logistics and defense supplier for the Free State of Settlers. Its refurbished drones were instrumental in both civil reconstruction and military readiness.

• Established in the ruins of a broken FEC logistics bay in Hope
• Recovered and repaired a small fleet of Seed Drones, Courier Drones, and Combat Drones
• Introduced leasing models with maintenance support, allowing key institutions (e.g. clinics, workshops, patrol units) to access operational drones despite resource scarcity

• Entered exclusive supply contracts with the Guarding Troopers
• Converted into a semi-official contractor under the supervision of the Volunteer Army of Man during the Great War
• Scaled production and repair operations to over 200 drones serviced per month, operating multiple outposts near Morningstar, Arla Town, and Firetown

• Under the terms of the Peace Treaty, drone use was strictly curtailed
• Drones of Hope Inc. was nationalized by the newly formed Federal Confederation and ordered to disassemble all remaining Combat Drones
• The company was dissolved shortly thereafter, though rumors persist of hidden caches and underground repair rings

• Drone Recovery and Repair – Specialist retrieval and restoration of damaged units
• Custom Drone Upgrades – Payload optimization, AI interface tuning, terrain adaptation modules
• Leasing Packages – Timed deployment of drones for medical, delivery, surveillance, or defense purposes

• Praised by Individualists: Seen as a beacon of post-crash entrepreneurship and human adaptability
• Criticized by Communards: Viewed as a warmongering enterprise fueling escalation during the Great War
• Tech Underground Influence: Whispered to have seeded much of the Outlaw drone smuggling infrastructure still active in the Gamma Age

• Reputation-Based Quests: Characters aligned with outlaw factions may seek out descendants of former engineers to recover old tech or unlock encrypted firmware

• Faction Conflict: PCs may be caught between Federal enforcement and individualist preservationists when uncovering surviving Drones of Hope assets

• Beta Age
• Exohuman Technology of the Beta Age
• Free State of Settlers
• Guarding Troopers
• Great War
• Peace Treaty
• Federal Confederation

Drones of the Exohumans:

• Combat Drones
• Courier Drones
• Seed Drones