Tale of Diep:Clone Drone

The Clone Drone is a randomly spawning enemy like the Crashers. They are very rare, and can spawn anywhere on the map. Created by ZathusTheMageV.

Design
A bright cyan Drone that is slightly larger than a big Crasher.

Attacks and Specialties
It spawns immobile. Once a player gets within 20 tiles of it, it will activate, and begin slowly crawling toward them at the speed of a Level 1 tank with no Movement Speed points. Slowly, it will begin duplicating itself, by splitting into two equal sized clones. And then those two split into more... so on and so forth, exponentially growing into a doubling swarm.

Once there are at least 64 Clone Drones, they will speed up and become as fast as if they had max Drone Speed. They are VERY hard to kill early on, but the larger the swarm, the more the health gets spread thin. A Clone Drone has 500 HP, but once it splits, both get 250, then when they split, the four have 125 each. The Drones share the wealth of health. However, each has constant damage regardless. Damage does not get spread, and no matter they're health, each is as dangerous as the others.

Tanks that get killed by them turn into Clone Drones themselves, and begin duplicating, but they start a new health pool, not join the swarm. They're basically a second swarm.

When no players are nearby, an active Clone Drone and its duplicates will attack Polygons. Killed Polygons also turn into Clone Drones, that start a new swarm. When no players are nearby, the Clone Drone and its swarm will just wander around, killing Polygons and growing larger.

If two swarms of Clone Drones meet, they will collide and move as one: Strength in numbers!

And finally, should the ORIGINAL CLONE DRONE of a swarm be killed, all duplicates part of that swarm will die with it. There is no way to tell the original Clone Drone from the others, but it will always be relatively near the middle.

Trivia

 * Their exact spawn rate is 1/800 chance to replace a Crasher spawn, but they can be anywhere on the map.
 * Multiple Clone Drones can be on the map at once, and, as noted, their swarms will combine if they meet.
 * They can be terrifying should you give them enough time. There is no max number of times they can duplicate.