The first time I saw Abbad I thought he was an incomplete drone, like one of the failures mentioned in Uru’s records. Maybe he was never supposed to be activated but he simply didn’t know.
Does that make him a Jawa? 
I human can wear an armor no?Oh and how can you be so certain that the DDD was dumber than Azel or Abadd?We only saw him fighting, yes but that is no reason.
Oh and I can’t depicture any real diference between the DDD and the Sky Rider.
As far as I know the Sky Rider doesn’t look very human.Humanoid yes, like every other drone but…
Still that’s an armor so…
I’m pretty sure it is biological armour.
But are drones biological?
Yes o.o
They are?How do you explain their “shell” then?
Drones are bio-engineered creatures just like the other creations of the Ancients. I think their shell is just an exoskeleton that grows onto them.
Exactly.
I always thought that drones armor was just armor from the ancient age, I mean, Azels armor didn’t look like it was a part of her and Abbad didn’t seem to have any armor at all, although there is no doubt that drones are biological beings, I am not convinced that it applies to their armor, still, it is an interesting idea anyway…
When in PDS I heard commentaries about Azel’s humanity (as far as appearence is concerned) I always…
Azel hasn’t got skin.Humanoid yes,human no.
I don’t think so, myself. Why would Azel have breasts beneath an exo-skeleton?
The Sky Rider’s armour is too bulky to be a part of his anatomy.
Drones don’t have much in common with humans except their appearance. Inside there just like biomonsters, like Azel said. So why wouldn’t they grow a white exoskeleton like most of the pure-types? Look at Abbad, that’s clearly an exoskeleton around him and not an armour, at least in my opinion. I can’t see why the Sky Rider’s armour couldn’t be part of his anatomy either.
We don’t really know if this applies to all drones. Abadd didn’t seem “indistinguishable from normal human beings”. Far from it, in fact.
How can drones pretend to be humans while wearing exo-skeletons? Either the Empire collected inaccurate information, or not all drones seem human at all.
Beats me. All I know is beneath Azel’s outfit is skin akin to the colour of human skin, and for some inexplicable reason, she has breasts. Why place layers of exo-skeleton over skin?
But was Abbad also wearing armour in your opinion then?
With the right clothing, I think they could look human enough. We don’t know how often they encountered real humans either.
Why is that inexplicable? They obviously wanted Azel to look as human as possible. However, drones were designed to perform dangerous tasks, so they needed more protection than humans. An exoskeleton is the perfect way to accomplish this. Pandora’s Box in PDO also mentions this about bio-engineered creatures: “They often have soft tissue covered in a solid exoskeleton, but sometimes, bio-engineered creatures may also have cuticles growing from pores within the flesh”.
One thing with Azel: we never see her with her armour off. That makes me wonder if it could come off at all. However there doesn’t seem to be any proof either way, just speculation… we need more facts. It’s a mystery, and could well depend on the type of drone.
Carry on…
My point is not all drones seem human nor do they all share the same characteristics.
Many of them could look human, which in itself begs us to question if the ancients built them in their image. However, Abadd is an exception to this aesthetic rule. Smilebit and the ancients designed Abadd that way for a reason. I want to know what that reason is.
You can’t tell me the Sky Rider’s helmet or the black cloth wrapped around his mouth grew out of his head. He’d have a lot of trouble convincing people he was human in that case, wouldn’t he?
But not Abadd or the drone riding the Dark Dragon who has glowing eyes? Why Azel and not them?
[quote=“Geoffrey Duke”]My point is not all drones seem human nor do they all share the same characteristics.
Many of them could look human, which in itself begs us to question if the ancients built them in their image. However, Abadd is an exception to this aesthetic rule. Smilebit and the ancients designed Abadd that way for a reason. I want to know what that reason is.[/quote]
Like I said earlier, perhaps Abbad was never “finished”.
I doubt that’s a cloth wrapped around him. It even had parts that reflected light. And why did he have to convince people that he was human? I’m sure the drones could live in places where humans never dared to enter. If he was even active at that time.
[quote=“Geoffrey Duke”]
But not Abadd or the drone riding the Dark Dragon who has glowing eyes? Why Azel and not them?[/quote]
Those glowing eyes seem to be the only difference between him and the Sky Rider. Does that make such a big difference to consider one similar to humans and the other not? I’m not sure why he had glowing eyes, but there could be a reason the Ancients gave him that.
The ancients wouldn’t put an incomplete drone in charge of resurrecting them.
Also, I can’t see how drones can seem “indistinguishable from normal human beings” when they have exo-skeletons covering the entirety of their bodies, a la the Sky Rider.
Uru’s records indicate that the Ancients planted a device in the drones that caused them to malfunction (Azel didn’t have that device). Seeing how Abbad malfunctions, I doubt they had time to correct that problem.
Only certain variations were indistinguishable from humans. The Sky Rider was probably one of the variations that wasn’t. At the end of the Ancient Age, there must have been a lot of different drones left behind. It wouldn’t surprise me that there were only a few drones that interacted with humans, while the others stayed in hiding.