Protector Sentinel (Trove)

Protector Sentinels are Forerunner machines similar in design and purpose to Sentinels.

Overview

Protector Sentinels are smaller, faster, and occupy less of the population limit. It is in the support role that they excel - their Y-button ability is to attach themselves to one of the player's other units, following it in action. Only one can be attached to a single unit one time.

For the most part, they must be purchased from a Protector Plant.

Variations

There are three different variants of the Protector Sentinels:

• Offensive Protector - when attached, it attacks units near its host with a pulse of laser fire.
• Shield Protector - projects a rechargeable energy shield around its host unit.
• Healing Protector - recharges its host's health when out of combat.

Offensive Protector

The Offensive Protectors are the only Protectors that can be used as a standard unit, because they can attack without being assigned to a squad. In direct combat, they are less effective than Sentinels. Similar to the Sentinel Majors, they are equipped with onboard beam weapons which fires a single blue colored pulse beam at a time. They are of similar shape to the Super Sentinel, but are slightly bigger than Constructors. They have several laser guidance systems that scan for any threats.

Healing & Shield Protector

The Healing Protectors and the Shield Protectors are the about the same size as Offensive protectors, smaller than a standard Sentinel but larger than a Constructor, but are slightly smaller because the bottom vertical wing is pointing to the rear instead of downwards. Unlike the Offensive Protectors, they do not have guiding lasers. The Healing Protectors and the Shield Protectors are identical in shape, but Healing Protectors radiate a green aura which can be used to tell the difference it and the Shield Protectors. Shield Protectors creates a shield, similar to a Bubble Shield in Halo 3, around the assigned squad. Healing Protectors have the same ability as the UNSC Marines with the Medic Upgrade, meaning they heal the squad after combat.

Spartan and Regret uses

Unlike many units, which can only have one Protector, Spartans and the Prophet of Regret are able to get multiple Protectors assigned to them through special ways.

• Regret: upgrading the Prophet of Regret with Ancestral Perversion will give him with two Offensive Protectors for his personal protection. If you assign any Protector to him before researching that upgrade, only one Offensive Protector will appear.

• Spartans: There are two ways of getting two Protectors assigned to a spartan, in both cases the spartan has to "jack" a vehicle:

1. Both the spartan and one of your vehicle have a Protector have a protector assigned to them and make your Spartan Commandeer your vehicle. This only works when it is your vehicle, when you jack an enemy's vehicle, the vehicle's Protector is destroyed.
2. The Spartan as a Protector, the spartan jacks an enemy vehicle or commandeer a friendly vehicle then a second protector is assigned to that vehicle. If that vehicle is destroyed, the Spartans still eject as normal, but they only keep the Protector that was originally assigned to them.

Trivia

• Players can purchase them inside the Protector Plant found on the map Labyrinth.
• If a unit is being airlifted by the Transport power, the protector unit will follow the pelican, providing it with its capablities, until the Pelican reaches its destinination, which it goes back to the original unit.
• The shield of a protector Sentinel resembles that of a Bubble Shield.
• By using the above trick to have two Shield Protectors on a Spartan, one the the shields does not affect the vehicle, therefor it is useless.