AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
- Intent: Don't let those elite B1s break your budget - get an APT-A.
- Image Source: Automatic Protective Turret by Alexander Gluhachev
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: X14 Stryder-series Droid Skirmisher (Quality > Quantity)
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: Gellenbright Securities
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: APT-A, aka the Automatic Protective Turret, aka 'the Cheapskate's Choice'.
- Modularity: Standard; blaster can be replaced with a slugthrower or the like.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Low-grade Hexaplast
- Classification: Class Four
- Weight: Light
- Height: Small
- Movement: Tracks
- Can be quadrupedal instead.
- Armaments: Blaster (Equivalent to a Rifle)
- Misc. Equipment: Standard, incl. Verity-B.
- Resistances:
- Energy Weapons: Average
- Kinetic Weapons: Average
- Lightsabers: None
- Can hold a singular Eyebot within its main chassis for scouting purposes. That's semi-expensive, though - your call.
- An APT-A's cheap blaster gas is voluminous (large tank in 'head'), volatile, and generates softly orange blaster bolts.
- 'Ironmaze' offers decent protection from slicing, but tends to freeze the droid while in use due to limited processors
- The APT-A is extremely, almost unbelievably cheap - the model may not be able to open doors, but it can shoot.
- Blaster Rifle on Tracks: APT-As are blaster rifles with tracks, basic armouring, and target recognition. They're beyond cheap.
- Dullest Knife in the Drawer: The pea-sized droid brain of an APT-A is unqualified for anything beyond deciding to shoot or not.
"It makes the B1 look like a genius, but it has target recognition, can't drop its gun, and costs less than my fridge."
- Fax Pakru, Associate Director of Financial Oversight
- Fax Pakru, Associate Director of Financial Oversight
Some battle droids are terrifying, superhuman war machines and some battle droids are cheap. The APT-A falls firmly in the latter category, though it has been noted as being more terrifying than the B1 by virtue of being less human - it is, however, far less flexible.
A lesson in cost-saving, an APT-A's chassis is made from cheap carbon polymers, its blaster (and by extension the interior of its chassis) is slightly radioactive and prone to overheating with excessive use, and its data-brain is literally pea-sized. As a result, its social interaction suite is limited to a set of pre-recorded messages such as "ALERT! Restricted area, depart.", "ALERT! Restricted area, freeze.", and "ALERT! Restricted area, die."
ROLE & TACTICS
The APT-A is acceptably mobile and decently armed, but its main strength is reliability and numbers; while not capable of higher cognition, droids of this model will happily throw themselves at an objective until it is accomplished or they are disabled, making them well-suited for swarm tactics.
Their most common use is not on the battlefield, however, for anything with a blaster rifle and a fairly thick (if cheap) chassis has a place in private security. While Stryders are faster and more capable and police droids far more approachable, APT-As are cheap, plentiful, and more than capable of shooting at anyone attempting to rob a warehouse, break into corporate offices at night, or sabotage a power station.
Seeing as they don't require salaries, sleep, and toilet breaks, they are usually cheaper than all but the most underpaid of organic guards.
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