A Fleet of DRONES?!

[Revyn]

This is kind of a self-explanatory title, I know, but I have to ask.

So, I'm actually relatively new to SE, and I was curious: Can I build a fleet, a whole fleet, of drones? Generally to make a world, especially an offline world, a bit more lively since I don't have the bravery or bandwidth currently to play on any kind of online server. But there's a twist: I'm trying to keep mods out of it, and focus primarily on In-Game scripting, sensors, antennae, RC and general vanilla stuff. Mostly so I can defend my planet from those pesky Space Pirates and wolves and... spiders. I have an idea of how to make a basic patrol drone for a stationary base using RC blocks and waypoints, but I need escort drones that'll follow... let's say, a tanker on its way to make a delivery, or maybe a larger command vessel or even a personal craft in case I run into the aforementioned Space Pirates, and mow them down so I can return to my regularly scheduled programming.

I'm not so much asking for an immediate solution, but more of "Hey, you could try this, or a combination of this and this". Any and all help is appreciated, though!

[Bannor]

Search for 'Splitsie' on YouTube.

[Revyn]

Man that was fast-

[DragoF1sh]

try rdav's fleet command script when it gets patched. Your dream on commanding hordes of drones will become a reality when its ready.

[Revyn]

I could do that. But I'm not trying to command them. I probably should've made it clear in the post, but I need these drones to be... well, entirely autonomous. BUT! I like where that's going, if I ever want to have giant faction battles and test my wits against an AI that... may or may not be smarter than I.

[DragoF1sh]

the ai for fleet command was pretty smart, they reacted pretty much automatically to their surroundings and have a very good aim with rocket launchers.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, we can use the in-game Drones to create ours, it just need a good Engineer to take the Drone "Brain" and paste it in your ship.

= it can be pasted as SPRT enemy or yours that will follow you so you may add more turrets on it to help in battles.

I have shared some good info on how to play with the in-game Drones :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/244850/discussions/0/2552901289725581551/

I took/extracted 2 enemy "Brains" so far and having a lot of fun testing it :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2068592731
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2068595999

Next "brains" I'll extract will be the "helper follow Drones" in the Frostbite scenario ;)

[Revyn]

Ooh~ Swanky. And all fantastic answers! With this, I shall do ze research! And... probably adapt code here and there from others which, thanks to you lot, I have a good starting point. Thank you all! But more suggestions (and possible adverts, if you're Dan or others who may or may not have already solved this problem) are always appreciated!