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Then why does it have a land move 30 and an average fly maneuverability? A drone built primarily to hover would have a 0 move speed, and a perfect fly.

Exactly why the OP is putting forth this discrepancy to the developers. It is not called a "ground drone that can fly", "rocket drone" or "jet propelled drone" its called a HOVER drone inferring that wait what? It CAN hover!. From your point of view it seems that this HOVER drone should be moving on the ground by default? So what, its basically a RC car that can fly? And the only time it can fire its weapon on its own without crashing is from the ground?

You can buy a drone that can Fly, on it's own, and fire a 45 caliber pistol, without you aiming it and without the recoil knocking it out of the sky? (Never mind lift 60 lbs)

I did not say I could buy a starfinder hover drone from Walmart, what I was implying was that I can buy a drone that does not crash the moment it stops moving. Here are a couple of examples.

Cheerwing Syma X5HW-I FPV $49.99 which includes the following feature:
The X5HW-I has Hover / Barometer Set Height Function, after using the left joystick (Accelerator) to control the ascending / descending flight of the aircraft. free up the left joystick (Accelerator) and the aircraft will still hover at that height at which the joystick is freed

Sky Viper Hover Racer Drone $45 which lists the following features:
Flight Assist features, Auto Launch, Auto Hover and Auto Land

What does carring 60lbs have to do with anything i said? Now you're right I cannot buy one that fly's on its own or mounted with a .45. But also AI doesn't exist in any purchasable form that I am aware. So you're telling me that a sophisticated, sentient, self aware computer system is going to lack the technology to keep it self from crashing into the ground if is does not move?

Also here's this
https://www.megaleecher.net/Homemade_Flying_AR_Drone_With_Machine_Gun

I have been following this thread for awhile now myself. The thing that boggles me is the fact that it is a HOVER drone by design. So to me, that means that while it is powered on it is in a constant state of hovering. Its not a romba that just decides it is going to fly now, it was a machine that was created with flight being its primary mode of movement. Also, again to me, there is world of difference between the physics of flying with wings (which is what the RAW for hovering seems to be talking about when it states "Safe flight TYPICALLY requires momentum"), than with miniature hoverjets, rotors, or turbofans. Seeing that this is supposed to be a high technology system, i don't understand why a machine that was built with this as its sole intention is unable to achieve this basic task. I can buy a drone from Walmart today that can do this, but a Mechanic can't build one?