PROP: Autonet drone (spherical, multi-function)

[EightRice]

The Autonet drone design - a key visual element throughout the film.

Physical design:

• Spherical shape
• Shiny, reflective surface (default)
• Can change texture (mirror-bright → matte black → display screen)
• Size: approximately basketball-sized

Capabilities to visualize:

• Graviton manipulation for movement (eerie, inertia-free motion)
• Sound projection (music, voice)
• Image projection (fractals, patterns, memes)
• Texture/color changes
• Tiny manipulator arms (extend when needed)
• Coordinate in groups or entire collective

Contexts where they appear:

• The swarm (thousands, fluid dome formation)
• Underwater cluster around Seven (compute nodes)
• Surrounding military drones (EMP, sensor blinding)
• Attaching to missiles (guidance redirection)
• Attaching robot limbs to the dancing missile
• Painting flowers on military hulls

Movement style:

• Flow like a single organism when swarming
• Reposition with almost no effort (graviton tech)
• Change direction instantaneously, accelerate without inertia
• 'Like mercury' when surrounding targets

Reference: autonet_story_underwater_edit.md lines 273-277, 289-296