The Guardrones (ガードローン Gādorōn) are a new class of human weapons (人間兵器 ningen-heiki) designed by and overseen by World Government scientist, Dr. Prometheus. Unlike their Marine counterpart, the Pacifista, the Guardrones were specifically ordered for manufacturing by the government itself, as they felt that the successes of the Pacifista would lead to other great breakthroughs in technology, if the same concept was applied. And thus, the first attempts at recreacting a human weapon were made. However, as the World Government was unable to contact Marine head scientist, Dr. Vegapunk at the time, the technicians and scientists involved had many more instances of trial and error than the Marines had. It had gotten so bad, that the laboratory itself had been occassionally referred to as "a huma