Editing Tau Drones (section)

== Pulse Accelerator Drone ==

[[File:Pulse_accelerator_drone.jpg|right|150px|right|thumb|Pulse Accelerator drone - A great piece of boosting tech.]]

'''Pulse accelerator drones''' are drones that carry a pulse accelerator, which accelerates pulse rounds. Redundancy aside, it extends the range of pulse weapons.

How it extends the range of what is basically a [[Plasma#Plasma Gun|plasma gun]] is unknown. But seeing as how most plasma weapons are fired using a gravitational bubble to envelope the plasma bolt, it could be safe to say that this Drone uses gravity to further strengthen the envelope for a greater maximum distance and lifespan per-bolt.

Pulse Accelerator Drones are one of the more recent Drones to be used by the Tau. They have to date only been deployed as part of Pathfinder reconnaissance teams during the Third Sphere Expansion.

Like most of these specialist Drones, the Pulse Accelerator variety is a very bottom heavy Drone and thus, pretty damn big despite being based on the chassis of a regular Gun Drone. This is due to its specialized equipment which requires more space and power to use.

Unfortunately, despite their specialized equipment, these Drones are still pretty damned [[Derp|dumb.]] You would think that the Tau would upgrade these specialized Drones carrying pretty expensive equipment around to have a sudden increase in tactical awareness right? But nope, its just a modified Gun Drone with a tinkered programming to behave slightly differently. <s>Maybe the Tau have perfected the art of 3d printing?</s> {{Blam|No that would just be broken}}. Bummer.

Only [[Tau Pathfinder]]s use them. [[Derp|Instead of units that specialize in long-range combat.]]