Anti-Drone Sentinels, simply referred to as Sentinels, are mechanical droids designed to hunt and terminate any drone that crosses their path.
They serve as an antagonistic force in "Dead End", guarding the underground office facility of Cabin Fever Labs.
Physical Appearance[]
The Sentinels are robotic animals that resemble dromaeosaurids (raptors). The Utahraptor, for example, is a close match in both silhouette and size. They have three glowing eyes on each side of their heads and two smaller forward-facing ones in the middle.
Types[]
Normal[]
Sentinels, by default, have blue eyes and are programmed only to attack drones (specifically Workers infected by the Absolute Solver and Disassembly Drones); they remain subservient to humans. They can emit a flash of light that causes a boot-loop in any drone to directly see it. A drone in a boot-loop is frozen and unresponsive, which allows a Sentinel to destroy them with ease.
Red-eyed[]
The red-eyed Sentinel, named Sparky, was the Sentinel that bit Tessa's hand, causing it to short-circuit, be rendered offline before rebooting and gaining a taste for human flesh. It is also the Sentinel that V fought at the end of "Dead End" and the one she rode on in "Absolute End".
Abilities[]
Even when outnumbered the Sentinels are ruthlessly efficient in terminating drones, as hinted by the countless Disassembly Drone corpses and parts scattered around the entrance of Cabin Fever Labs. Their greatest asset is their aforementioned ability to boot-loop any Drone they hit with their lights and render them immobile.
Though their aggression was never intended to be directed towards humans, they may simply mistake a human for a drone. Once one spotted "Tessa," its first response was to try to boot-loop her and it became confused when she was unaffected. She reaches out to the mechanical predator in hopes of subduing it, and it decides to almost rip her arm off.
In "Absolute End", it's revealed that Sentinels can actually be tamed, with V not only surviving them but even forming an alliance with one, fighting J alongside it.
| Ability | Function |
|---|---|
| Claws | The Sentinels have sharp claws, much like real-life dromaeosaurids. They use them to pin their targets down. They're also used for digging and climbing. |
| Sharp Teeth | The Sentinels have an array of sharp metallic teeth lining their jaws. They're used to deliver the finishing blow to subdued victims. They're also used to intimidate targets. |
| Extreme Agility and Strength | The Sentinels are depicted as beastly creatures that can tear Drones apart easily. They're also very agile and nimble, as was shown when one of them quickly caught up to, attacked, and killed Beau. |
| Boot-Loop Light | The Sentinels have a blindingly bright light built into their forehead, which can emit a brief flash of light similar to a camera flash. Although harmless to humans, the light immediately boot-loops any drone, Worker or Disassembly, unfortunate enough to witness it, rendering them immobile. The only drone immune to the light is Cyn, this is seen when it tries to bootloop "Tessa." |
Trivia[]
- The Sentinels resemble the Velociraptor from Jurassic Park and World.
- In the Sentinels' concept art, they closely resembled the Neotheropod dinosaur Dilophosaurus, judging by their distinct dual head crests and large size. These were scrapped for unknown reasons.
- During GlitchX, Liam Vickers stated that Sentinels were originally floating orbs, similar to Wheatley from the Portal franchise.
- The Sentinels were referenced in "Cabin Fever" when Uzi is looking at the papers. One of them reads "LIGHTS BELOW" and is damaged with claw marks.
- The red-eyed Sentinel's canon name is Sparky, as confirmed by Glitch Inn.[1]
- The definition of a Sentinel is "a soldier or guard to watch over something."