Although automated machines of war were forbidden in core Domain space, war drones were quietly employed outside of officially incorporated volume. Frontier garrisons were often bolstered by drone ships, and they were deployed liberally against rebellious worlds to tip the terrible balance of attrition, setting the industrial might of the Domain versus the lives of 'freedom fighters'.
The Warden was feared and hated by pirates on the frontier on the Domain for the relatively heavy firepower it would unleash upon unshielded craft. Often denigrated in Luddic propaganda as a "murdering machine" for the merciless aggression it displayed when activated.
