====== Guard Classification ======

Most [[:guards:]] are **classified** roughly according to their relative danger to the player. The [[:modes:|game difficulty setting]] and [[:mission difficulty]] level determine the [[:mission difficulty#number of guards]] of each class present at the start of a mission; each [[:corporation]]'s guards within each class are equally likely to appear.((This is not completely true; in [[:corporations:Sankaku]] facilities [[Security Guards]] are //very// slightly more common than [[Obake Drones]], and [[Elite Security]] guards than Elite drones, due to the way the game guarantees there is a human guard with a [[:items:Lvl1 Security Passcard]].))

<WRAP table_cols_10em>
^ ^ [[:corporations:FTM]] ^ [[:corporations:K&O]] ^ [[:corporations:Plastech]] ^ [[:corporations:Sankaku]] ^
^  Common | [[Security Guard]] | [[Security Guard]] | [[Security Guard]] | [[Security Guard]] \\ [[Obake Drone v1.0]] |
^  Common Drone | [[Camera Drone]] \\ [[Pulse Drone]] [icon:CP] ||||
^  Elite | [[Barrier Guard]] \\ [[Elite Security]] \\ [[Support Guard]] | [[Elite Security]] \\ [[Flack Guard]] [icon:CP] \\ [[Heavy Security]] \\ [[Spec Ops]] \\ [[Support Guard]] | [[Elite Security]] \\ [[Modded MkI]] \\ [[Siren 1.0]] [icon:CP] | [[Akuma Drone]] \\ [[Elite Security]] \\ [[Null Drone]] \\ [[Obake Drone v2.0]] |
^  Lvl 2 Elite<wrap notbold> [icon:CP]</wrap> | [[Elite Barrier Guard]] [icon:CP] | [[Elite Heavy Security]] [icon:CP] \\ [[Elite Spec Ops]] [icon:CP] | [[Modded MkII]] [icon:CP] \\ [[Siren 2.0]] [icon:CP] | [[Akuma 2.0]] [icon:CP] \\ [[Null Drone 2.0]] [icon:CP] |
^  OMNI | [[OMNI Harbinger]] \\ [[OMNI Protector]] \\ [[OMNI Soldier]] ||||

[icon:CP] Found in the [[:Contingency Plan]] DLC.
</WRAP>

===== Unclassified guards =====

Some enemy units are not classified because they appear depending on the [[:mission:]] type, regardless of the [[:mission difficulty]] level:

  * [[Captains]] appear in [[:missions:Detention Centers]], some [[:missions:Security Dispatch|Security Dispatches]] and some [[:missions:Vaults]].
  * [[Financial Executives]] appear in [[:missions:Chief Financial Suites]].
  * [[Refit Drones]] appear in [[:missions:Drone Rescue]] side-missions.
  * [[Scientists]] appear in [[:missions:Program Compile]] side-missions, and in the [[:missions:OMNI Foundry Lab]] mission.

Additionally, [[Enforcers]] and [[Elite Enforcers]] are not classified, because they are never present at the start of the mission.