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* ''Film/MinorityReport'' the Spyder drones which provide surveillance and have a taser like effect while fitting neatly into a police utility belt.

** Sans the implementation of a GameMod, ''Homeworld 2'' scrapped drone warfare in skirmish and multiplayer matches. However, the Progenitor Keepers in the singleplayer campaign could construct Keeper Drones which were only slightly less lethal than the feared Keepers themselves. The closest thing in the player's hands is the Pride of Hiigara with a construction facility for producing up to ten reverse-engineered Progenitor Mover corvettes.

* ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'''s Kushan [[AllThereInTheManual Puppeteer-class]] Drone Frigate manufactures, launches and maintains 24 [[WeakTurretGun stationary turrets]] which are locked in orbit of the parent frigate. The Drone Frigate is unarmed so it must rely on the Drones to do the fighting.
** ''Homeworld: Cataclysm'''s Somtaaw Hive-class Advanced Drone Frigate builds six essential {{Attack Drone}}s which, while autonomous and versatile, take up more space than their predecessors. When things get too dicey to bear, the Hive Frigate's two self-defense guns will contribute just a bit more firepower.

** ''Homeworld: Cataclysm'''s Hive-class Advanced Drone Frigate builds six essential {{Attack Drone}}s which, while autonomous and versatile, take up more space than their predecessors. When things get too dicey to bear, the Hive Frigate's two self-defense guns will contribute just a bit more firepower.

* ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'''s Kushan [[AllThereInTheManual Puppeteer-class]] Drone Frigate manufactures, launches and maintains 24 [[WeakTurretGun stationary turrets]] that moves with the parent frigate. The Drone Frigate is unarmed so it must rely on the Drones to do the fighting.

** Sans the implementation of a GameMod, ''Homeworld 2'' did away with drone warfare in skirmish and multiplayer matches. However, the Progenitor Keepers in the singleplayer campaign could construct Keeper Drones which were only slightly less lethal than the feared Keepers themselves. The closest thing available is the Pride of Hiigara with a construction facility for producing up to ten reverse-engineered Progenitor Mover corvettes.

** Sans the implementation of a GameMod, ''Homeworld 2'' did away with drone warfare in skirmish and multiplayer matches. However, the Progenitor Keepers in the singleplayer campaign could construct Keeper Drones which were only slightly less lethal than the feared Keepers themselves.

* ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'''s Drone Frigate manufactures, launches and maintains 24 [[WeakTurretGun stationary turrets]] capable of attacking anything within range.
** In ''Homeworld: Cataclysm'' the Hive-class Drone Frigate builds less atypical {{Attack Drone}}s which do, however, take up more space than their predecessors.

* ''Honor Harrington'' novels, too. From ''Honor among enemies'' on, some ships carried a squadron of Light Attack Craft - their SpaceFighter equivalent, with a very small crew compared to other ships. It got better from then on. Bigger carriers can launch up to 200 LACs.

* In ''Awesomenauts'', Voltar the Omniscient has this as one of his special abilities. Depending on your upgrade loadout, it may be his only method of attack.

* One illustration for ''GoldenSun'' shows that [[SummonMagic Djinn]] are kept this way, each shrinks down to a point of light on the user's body.

** And their BoringYetPractical counterparts, the troop ships, as deployers of landing craft. Which makes this trope OlderThanSteam .

* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Engineer can pick up and redeploy any buildings he constructs, though this does have the disadvantage of keeping the engineer from defending himself until he drops his load, as well as slowing him down.

* NPC freighters in the ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X-Universe]]'' series frequently carry a small number of [[AttackDrone fighter drones]] to fend off attackers. The Sector Trader and Bonus Pack trading scripts will make player-owned freighters buy them for the same purpose.

Drones are often TransformingMecha or {{Size Shifter}}s to help conserve space and store more of them.

* ''DawnOfWar'': This is how the Tau's Drone Harbinger unit works, it automatically produces small drones that then attack-move towards the targeted destination. However, it must be watched carefully to make sure it doesn't die or rapidly drains your energy ressource.

* ''Starfire'': the major star fleets had carriers that carried armed fighters.

An alternative to magically summoning beings for your use, you can instead carry them on your person to deploy and recall them as needed. This is common in science fiction with vehicles or robots, though some magical examples or even natural examples such as some real life mutualism.

* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}:'' most Tau vehicles have drones that can pop free of their vehicles.

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* Syndrome's search drone from ''TheIncredibles''.

* In the ''{{Borderlands}}'' series, the Soldier and Commando classes utilize sentry turrets as a form of offense or defense depending on the skill tree paths taken.
* In ''DCUniverseOnline'', {{Brainiac}} and his minions uses this ''heavily''.
* ''{{Half-Life}} 2'' has Combine soldiers carrying [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast manhacks/viscerators]].
* ''{{HellGate London}}'' features a character class dedicated to this concept.

* ''StarFleetBattles'': all of the major interstellar nations had ships that carried fighters or PF ships, and almost all major ships carried armed shuttlecraft.