![]() While a few heavier hovercraft have sizable gun batteries able to fight off sentinels, (such as the Icarus and the Hammer) most hovercraft have only a few light guns and hand-held personal armaments. Hovercraft crews fear the Sentinels that patrol the tunnels, which in groups can obliterate an unprepared hovercraft. Operators are typically natural-born humans (who themselves cannot enter the Matrix), but some redpills such as Cypher were trained on the console.Ī cockpit contains the flight controls as well as sensing devices to alert crews of approaching Machines. The operator is able to broadcast their mind's carrier and data signal into the Matrix network which is broadcasted over the span of the planet. Each redpill sits in a chair and is strapped in for their own safety, where then a long data probe is inserted in their headjack. In a section of the hovercraft is the operator console, where a series of chairs are available for redpills to perform their second duty: Freeing human minds from the grasp of the Matrix. Food consists of a cold, protein soup that is aesthetically unpleasing but can be recycled endlessly aboard the ship. Crews often handle some sort of repair when not jacked in or resting. The environment is cold, sometimes damp, and cramped with little privacy. The interior of hovercraft is very limited in creature comforts. To actually destroy the ship, not just disable it, the Machines will either disrupt its core until it detonates, or use suicidal bombers. Even the armored ships, however, have vulnerable external pads, cockpits and communication towers that can be breached or disabled by Sentinels if those fly too close. Hovercrafts stronger and larger than the Nebuchadnezzar are expected to have stronger survival capabilities. Hovercraft are also quite heavily armored despite their considerable speed and maneuverability, as demonstrated by the Nebuchadnezzar when its exterior armor and interior hull took several minutes for a patrol of Sentinels to cut through. Hovercraft can also perform limited repairs if they happen to be damaged by the environment or are damaged by Machine forces, however all Hovercraft ultimately need to return to Zion for a full resupply and complete repairs. Hovercraft appear to be electrically powered, using batteries or other source that allows operations for several weeks if not months. While hovercraft can practically fly, the Zion operatives that crew these ships are generally conducting operations below ground within the ancient sewers and tunnels that formed the underground of the old destroyed human cities, away from Sentinels. ![]() Hovercraft "fly" using pad technology that apparently leverages magnetism to form levitation. This might be explained by the fact that humanity assembled their ships from the remains of their destroyed world. Hovercraft seem to contain a mixture of old and modern equipment and have a dubious quality of assembly.
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