[quote=Darkraven]
With the setting being the near future, we'll likely get all kinds of drones, though not necessarily the S.H.I.V in its XCOM: Enemy Unknown form. It could take other forms. From the looks of it, it might come relatively early into the RP. It bugs me that conventional military uses robotic drones all the time while XCOM 'discovers' it late in the game.
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???
I got a SHIV before my first terror mission on a new save through the foundry.