A sentinel will deploy such a bomb by grasping it in a single tentacle, spinning very fast and releasing it with great velocity toward its target. Sentinels are also armed with tow bombs, tiny machines that seem like a sentinel's larvae, but are actually guided explosives that will tear through and destroy a hovercraft with ease. Sentinels are capable of electrical signature detection, such as generated by a fully-powered hovercraft, and will relentlessly follow that signal to its end. They are equipped with multiple audio and visual sensors, which look like satellite dishes and eyes. In addition to their powerful, clawed tentacles, sentinels are armed with a continuously firing laser beam that can slice and weld metal structures with ease, including a ship's hull. They tend to fly in swarms like insects, that can range from a few to thousands. A sentinel's frightening appearance reminds many humans of squids, where they get their nickname of "squiddies". After the conclusion of the war in the machines' favor, the sentinel units were further upgraded, and now patrol the sewers of the dead human cities of old, where they search for wandering Zion vessels or humans unlucky enough to be walking through them at the time.Ī sentinel appears as a multi-tentacled creature with multiple sensors that moves effortlessly through the air, probably using an advanced internal form of pad technology one can easily catch up to a fully-powered human hovercraft. In addition, the Machines initially relied on sentinels to maintain their power plants before eventually replacing the sentinels in that capacity with specialized medical hover bots. They were tasked with picking up the dead and incapacitating live humans in order to study them. When the Machine War broke out, the sentinels were deployed as a search-and-destroy unit, and proved to be more than a match for the war machines used by the United Nations. Since they lack dedicated offensive weaponry, their fangs and welding laser beam give away that they are much more fit for construction tasks, which was their primary goal - maintenance and repair of the real-world physical Matrix structures. Sentinels were originally built as construction unit and given military tasks much later. Over time, the machine AI grew more intelligent, and they built newer, better upgrades for their appearance.
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The sentinels replaced the B1 series after their exile by the humans.
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