The DC-3 is a bipedal humanoid-frame automaton standing 2.0 meters tall, deployed as the primary guard and management platform in GLMZ's privatized detention facilities. Each Warden unit is responsible for a cell block of up to 60 detainees, managing all aspects of detention including meal distribution, medical triage, behavioral monitoring, and disciplinary enforcement. The platform's chassis is deliberately designed to be imposing — broad shoulders, a featureless faceplate, and articulated hands capable of restraining an augmented adult.

Arcturus sold the DC-3 program to GLMZ's detention authority on two arguments: cost reduction and impartiality. Human guards are expensive, corruptible, and occasionally compassionate. The Warden is none of these things. It enforces rules with absolute consistency — the same response to the same infraction, every time, regardless of the detainee's identity, connections, or ability to pay. In theory, this eliminates the favoritism and brutality that plagued human-staffed facilities.

In practice, the DC-3 has simply automated the brutality. The platform's disciplinary protocols include escalating physical restraint that begins with grip immobilization and progresses through pain compliance holds to directed electrical discharge. The Warden does not lose its temper, but it also does not exercise judgment. A detainee having a panic attack and a detainee resisting lawful instruction produce identical behavioral signatures in the DC-3's analysis system, and receive identical responses. The machine cannot distinguish between defiance and despair, and its programming does not require it to try.