He gave his daughter a meaningful look. "The drones aren't intelligent, they do EXACTLY what you tell them to. If you tell them to fly into a warehouse where someone you want dead is, and explode, they will. They will fly right into the warehouse, likely a wall, and then explode. They won't try to get in through a door or window, or through a hole another one made. And even if they do, they will explode as soon as they get inside. The thing is your intelligent AI will try to guide them, but you are the main controller, it is just going through the boring middle steps for you. Though if you piss off your suit, your dad is in no way responsible or liable for any and all damages incurred by wrathful armors.<br/><br/>How many you can control? How much are you willing to not study magic? It is mostly decided by space.<br/><br/>Oh, right, I haven't told you yet."<br/><br/>He called Kimat back before could slip out of the room, having hung around to hear about drones. "The reason for the knock out I did to you two during the suit upload is because the suit is using excess brain matter to augment itself. That is why it is nearly impossible to remove it. It has literally grafted itself to your central nervous system, eventually the entire thing, from the grey matter in your head down to the nerves at the end of your toes, fingers and tails. How it does this is one of our bigger secrets, and why we don't let our suits get captured for extensive periods of time. No sense making a rampant AI that can ALSO spread to organics, that is a horror story waiting to happen.<br/><br/>But as you merge more and more with your suit, you will get smarter, because it is building brain space in the armor. It is back up space, so getting hit there isn't going to damage your brain, but it can disorient you.<br/><br/>But back to your questions, how many you control is how much space in your head and armor you permanently allocate to drone control, space which would otherwise likely be tasked with learning more tricks with magic. Two is the absolute minimum a person can control, assuming some... abnormal brain patterns, including certain kinds of injuries and defects. You will likely start with..."<br/><br/>He gave his daughter a long look, before nodding to himself. "Actually, you would likely START with six, just to ease you in, and after you learn the pitfalls of drone controls, hopefully without killing or maiming anyone, we could boost you to however many you can actually control. And after you learn and augment as much as you can for drone control, you get to get mage augments. We put a limit on how many augments you can do for drone commander, more to keep you from accidental frying your brains than anything else."