Alixandra Ishtar
Character
Aten - War Droid
Intent: To create
Image Source: Protoss Purifier.
Canon Link: N/A.
Primary Source: Repurposed Canon Articles, Ares I - Pattern Combat Platform
Manufacturer: Republic Engineering Corporation - Robotics Division; Deep Space and Coruscanti Foundries.
Affiliation: Republic Engineering Corporation - The Golden Company - Guild of Armourer's.
Model: Aten - Series War Droid
Modularity: No.
Production: Limited.
Material: Duranium, Reinforced Duraplast, Durasteel, Manganesse Brass, Synthmesh, Ruusan Copper, Rubber, Laminanium, Laser-Reflective Armour, Various Droid Components (Internal and External.)
Classification: Fourth-Degree Droid
Weight: 90 Kilograms
Height: 2 meters
Movement: Bipedal Locomotion
Armaments:
- Integrated Wrist Mounted Plasmatic-sheathed Vibro-blades.
- Forearm mounted Heavy Blaster Cannons.
- Shoulder Mounted Nanomissile launchers (5 rounds per launcher)
- Externally Equipped Weapons. Limited to Non-Exotic Melee Weapons (Additional Training Required for Exotic Weapons), and Ranged Weapons.
- Vocabulator with Communications Suite. [Military Encryption Keys, and Acoustic Signaller.]
- Auditory Sensors, with Multi-Frequency Vision Filters and Target Acquisition Systems.
- Photoreceptor with Integrated Microbinoculars.
- Emergency Re-activator Module.
- Droid Brain, with Heuristic Processors and Battle Computer.
- Memory Core with Addition Memory Banks.
- Ionization Buffer.
- Remote Transceiver.
- Computer Probe, with Security Domination Interface.
- Magnetic Plating for Weapon Storage.
- Heavy-duty Suspension System with Gyroscopic Stabilizers.
- Fire Suppression System.
- Shield Generator.
- Central Fusion Generator, with Secondary Power Cells and Recharge Couplings.
- External Solar Ionization Collection Array.
- Integrated Servomotors with Central Movement Processor Core.
- Reinforced Duranium Frame with Laminanium Armour Plating, Laser-Reflective Armour, and Reinforced Duraplast Liner.
- EMP and Ion Hardened.
- Full Artificial Intelligence.
- Integrated Self-Sustaining Module.
- Integrated Electric Defense Grid. (Internal Security Measure)
- Socketguards, and Various Encryption Lockouts.
- Limited area Hive Mind processing.
Strengths:
- Sentient Platform: The Aten was endowed with a fully functioning intelligence. It held the capacity to learn through its own actions but held a reservoir of information within the installed data-banks, however, the only thing it wasn’t allowed to evolve beyond was hurting Republic Engineering Personnel or Thyrsian Sun Guards; all else were fair game as far as their programming was concerned.
- Hive Mind Capabilities: In a fight, several Aten series droids can wirelessly link up using the braid that runs from the back of their heads to form a collective hive mind. Allowing them to better implement various tactics and transfer information (such as enemy location information).
- Self-Sustaining Modules: Outfitted with a myriad means of repairing their internal and external systems, the Aten War Droid was capable of keeping itself in the fight; provided sufficient enough time passed uninterrupted.
- Integrated Weapon System: Although the Battle Droid was capable of carrying external armament and ammunition, the Aten was equipped with a pair of plasmatic-sheathed vibro-blades (utilizing technology similar to the Xiphos), forearm mounted heavy blaster cannons, and shoulder mounted nano-missile launchers.
- Countermeasure Suite: Built with several layers of security, the Ares Combat Platform was capable of thwarting a plethora of means that sought to wrest control of the droid away from the droid themselves; or their programmed masters.
Weaknesses:
- Artificial Sentience: Despite the myriad firewalls and security measures that the Battle Droid came installed with, and could be upgraded with in the future, it was still an artificial construct at the end that was susceptible to alterations in their programming and malicious software.
- EM and Ion Hardening: While the Aten War Droid was outfitted with a plethora of insulating materials, to help mitigate the hazardous effects of ionization and magpulse weaponry, such measures didn’t grant the War Droid total immunity; thus was still susceptible to their effects depending on proximity and intensity.
- External Armament Reliance: In spite of the fact that the Aten War Droid was outfitted with a pair of integrated blades, their reach was limited to melee attacks; So in order to be more effective on the battlefield it was best to outfit them with a selection of small arms, and light weaponry.
- Limited Maneuverability: Due to the anatomical design choice of the Aten, the Battle Droid was incapable of rolling or somersaulting, as to do so would damage the exterior and external equipment and sensors; thus the Artificial Warrior was only capable of leaping or running out of the way of incoming hazards.
- Regenerating Armour: Whilst the Aten was outfitted with regenerative properties, they weren’t instantaneous. The Laminanium armour plating took upwards of a day to fully reform from external grievous injuries, but the internalized systems took marginally less time due to the efficacy of the self-reparation module -- and the redundancy of its mechanized parts.
Following the outstanding success of the Ares I - Pattern Combat Platform, The Republic Engineering Corporation was commissioned to build a new generation of War Droids. Unlike it's Ares brethren though, the Aten was designed as a more limited run production to make the most of the resources afforded the project and their intended future use. Given the Golden Company's victory over the Mandalorians, it was only natural that the mercenary company would turn the visage of their fallen foe into a machine to serve at their whim.
To this end, the Aten took on the look of an ancient holy warrior - glowing golden with the power of the sun - ready to serve any of their masters that so chose to command them within the ranks of the Lightsworn.
While the Aten's combat performance was maximized by equipping it with a variety of melee or ranged weapons that ranged up to heavy weaponry, a feat it was capable of thanks to the more shock adsorbent capabilities of its legs, the Aten could still perform without such weapons. This was thanks to the forearm mounted heavy blaster cannons, the shoulder mounted nano-missile-launchers, and the pair of golden plasmatic-sheathed vibro-blades that were built into it.
To further aide in the Aten's improved combat capabilities, each unit was able to network together with other nearby units using a heavily encrypted short range signal. This allowed them to create a pseudo hive mind consciousness that transferred data almost simultaneously to any nearby Aten unit. This better enabled them to use one another as tools, bringing down groups of opponents much faster between their blades and what ever weapons they were equipped with for that particular mission.
