H.I.V.E. (series) - Machines and Devices

Machines and Devices

• Animus – Self-replicating organic supercomputers which is used to control people and has the appearance of black slime. It was created by Overlord and it can take control of any system that it is inserted into. In and before Rogue, anyone apart from Otto who was injected with Animus would be killed by it, but in Zero Hour, a new generation of Animus was developed by Overlord, which meant that nobody would die immediately if they were injected with it. However they could only survive for an 24 hours or so. Later in Zero Hour, Otto, Professor Pike and H.I.V.E.mind managed to create an antidote for Animus.

• Blackboxes - H.I.V.E.’s shiny black PDA devices that every student must have with them at all times. They are tracking devices, but they can also be useful in many other ways.

• Grapplers – Devices that can be used to scale vertical surfaces or to descend safely from elevated positions. They look like armoured gauntlets with a small handle at one end and a bulky assembly attached to one side with a silver arrowhead protruding from it.

• Raven’s Twin Katanas – Raven’s swords that she carries with her everywhere. She has had them since the age of thirteen, when she was forced by Pietor and Anastasia Furan to use them to kill her friend, Tolya. In Overlord Protocol, Professor Pike replaced the swords with new, updated ones that are electromagnetically shielded with a purple force field which means that they can cut through even the toughest metals.

• Goliaths – A huge robots that were created by an American military organisation and have the ability to destroy tanks from the ground and in the air. At thirty metres tall, these armoured metal robots have multi-barreled Gatling cannons mounted on each arm and rocket pods on each shoulder. In the centre of each of the machines’ chests is a black glass cockpit shrouded in heavy armour where the pilot would sit and control it.

• The Shrouds – H.I.V.E.’s aircraft that have cloaking fields that make them completely invisible and have giant VTOL engines.

• Dreadnought – Diabolus Darkdoom’s permanently airborne defence craft which looked almost like an advanced type of aerodynamic battleship but with four huge jet turbines that held the massive vessel aloft. It was made be Jason Drake and was designed to stay airborne indefinitely and provide G.L.O.V.E. with a permanent command post that was both safe and discreet. The craft was equipped with thermoptic camouflage systems just like the Shrouds, but it could also harness local weather systems used a feature called the Zeus Sphere, which could entirely conceal its presence from the eyes of the world. The craft was powered by the world’s first functioning fusion reactor, which meant that it harnessed the power of the sun and as such there was never any need to refuel. The craft was destroyed at the end of the book “Dreadnought” in which it was featured in.

• Megalodon – Diabolus Darkdoom’s huge stealth submarine which is the largest sub ever constructed and was used to save Otto and his friends in Escape Velocity and in Zero Hour. It is a completely self-sufficient vessel that can operate without resupply for years at a time and cannot be detected by any existing sonar systems.

• Hammerhead – Diabolus Darkdoom’s mini-submarine that Nero, Otto and the other Alphas used to escape the Megalodon in when they were being attacked by American Navy submarines in Zero Hour.

• The Leviathan – A fully operational airborne command centre with a full cloak capability and the latest generation of long-range scramjet engines which used to belong to Jason Drake, but was used by Nero and Darkdoom in Zero Hour to travel to where Overlord and his forces were in order stop Overlord.

• Overwatch – Jason Drake’s satellite which had the ability to track down a single man anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds. It was used to scan New York in Dreadnought in order to find Nero, Raven, Otto and the other Alphas. It was launched with another satellite that Drake Industries did not work on – a deep black military project called Thor’s Hammer that was designed to work in unison with Overwatch.

• Thor’s Hammer – A satellite that could fire a nuclear missile from orbit which could pierce so far underground before detonating that it could destroy and entire underground terrorist base in the blink of an eye. Jason Drake found out how to control it in Dreadnought, and planned to make a missile hit Yellowstone National Park which would trigger the supervolcano that lies beneath it, but luckily, Otto sabotaged this plan. In Zero Hour, Otto used Thor’s Hammer to destroy a swarm of Animus nanites that Overlord released into the world.

• The Zeus Sphere – A feature on the Dreadnought which could directly manipulate the climate immediately surrounding the craft to cloak it in storm clouds that were fully under control and could entirely conceal the aircraft’s presence form the eyes of the world.

• The Football – The slang name for the device that controlled access to launch codes for America’s entire nuclear arsenal which is looked after by the President of the United States. In Dreadnought, Jason Drake kidnapped the President and the device was under Drake’s control, but luckily, Otto sabotaged Drake’s plans.

• Hunter Drones – Jason Drake’s small, mechanical assassination devices which were set on Nero, Otto and Wing in Dreadnought when they broke into Drake Industries’ headquarters in New York. The deadly machines were fitted with heavy machine guns and had twin turbine pods on each side which meant that they had the ability to fly.

• H.A.L.O. Jump – A High Altitude Low Opening parachute jump where the jumper leaps from a plane at a high altitude and opens their parachute at the lowest possible altitude to lessen the chances of detection by anyone on the ground. Otto had to perform a HALO jump in Overlord Protocol to get into Cypher’s base, and he had to perform one of these jumps again with Wing in Dreadnought to get into Jason Drake’s secret base in Nevada

• Integrates Systems Infiltration Suit (ISIS) – A bodysuit that combines thermoptic camouflage with advance Kevlar polymer body weave. It is fitted with an array of electromagnetic devices, including a full EM scrambler pulse, and antipersonnel discharge unit and a high-powered adhesion field built into the palms and soles of the boots. Grappler units are mounted on both arms and a full targeting and information HUD is within the helmet. In Zero Hour, these suits were used by the Zero Hour team of former H.I.V.E. pupils in the battle with Overlord and the Disciples’ forces.

• Neural Feedback Suit – A bodysuit that H.I.V.E. students have to wear in Colonel Francisco’s Tactical Education lessons which allows them to feel pain without suffering any physical injury so that the students take the lessons seriously. The students nicknamed the suit “the Agoniser”.

• The Predator Drone – A plane that was used in Zero Hour by the creators of the Goliaths to prove the Goliaths’ ability to destroy planes by simply flying towards them and swatting them out of the sky using a single swipe of a giant armoured fist.