[Marco]

Drone is a feature not implemented in the actual Version of the game, it will be implemented in SE VI Gold. Sorry but I don't know what drones are expected to do in the game, if I remember correctly past rumors in this forum, it will be some type of unmanned and self guided vehicle launched by ships, something between a fighter and a very small ship, which can go trough warp point and has a set of preselected instructions. I don't know if the owner player will have some control on it after launch.
A place in the structure of the game is nevertheless reserved to drones since the first release of the game, you can check the bitmaps pictures in the races subdirectory, and I think the interest of many players in drone is due to that.
Hope this help you, and may be Richard or someone of the beta tester group can post some more information in the thread.
Bye, Marco.