Drones

[AeoN2]

Something strange happened to me with drones and the computer AI.

In my new game I'm in early game (no heavy ships or tech yet), but since I sent out several scouts and colony ships I got 4-5 ruin planets, two of which gave me drone tech (level 2 total).

Then I met one of the TDM modpack AI's (the mechanic one with rock/none) and it declared war on me (not surprisingly when I read the description of it)

Anyway it immediately attacked and killed a worthless colony which I had got ruins from and was heading toward my next similar colony (with a single frigate).

I decided to give drones a try and emergency build a nice ship drone to defend the planet.

Next turn instead of attacking the frigate withdrew, like it knew I had a drone in the cargo of the colony. Strange I thought, but maybe a coincident.

Then a couple of turns later it entered the system again, this time with TWO frigates (coincidentily enough to bypass my drone), but I built another drone in time, and AGAIN it retreated out of the system.

My question is, can the AI detect what kind of weapons you have with no long range scanner tech? Even scan my cargo for weaponry?

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