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BATTLEMASTER II UPGRADE
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a new combat programming suite for droids for future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Battlemaster II Droid Combat Programming Suite
Modularity: Yes; can be included in droid construction or added after-market into various types and designs of droids.
Production: Mass Production
Material: Software coding, Micro-processing Module
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- The only member of the Battlemaster programming line to come with a hardware component, the Battlemaster II enabled droid starfighters and droid pilots to perform at incredible levels.
- Droid Battle Upgrade (Starfighter Tactical Edition)
- Micro-processing Module enables droids to perform complex astro-navigational calculations, plot and contain hyperspace flight plans, acting as their own navigational computers and hyperdrive management computers.
- Enhances droid pilots and droid starfighters’ performance levels, effectively raising them to equal (and in some ways surpass) biological pilots’ abilities.
- Gives droids the ability to act effectively as navigational computers and manage hyperspace travel more efficiently and autonomously.
- Droid pilots and starfighters are, even with enhanced performance capabilities, only able to perform as the ships they are using. In short, you might want to make a hairpin turn with a heavy freighter, but doing so will likely be disastrous for everyone involved. Starfighters’ limitations dictate the droids’ performance in every situation, and if those starfighters cannot do something, neither can their pilots.
- Ability to act as navigational computers will require tremendous processing capabilities and computing power, which for droids such as the B-1 Battle Droid, will require upgrades to droid brains, memory banks, etc. You can’t make a soup can a sports car, even if you fuel inject it, and likewise you can’t make a low-grade droid a genius, even if they have a micro-processing module installed.
Developed using the predatory programming developed for the Tri-Droid Starfighter during the Clone Wars, the Battlemaster II carries this to an even more extreme level. Using a vast database concerning starfighter models, types, and historical records regarding starfighter tactics and combat, the droid can not only draw upon this knowledge to enhance its own performance, but can review and exploit the limitations of enemy ships during combat, making them highly effective and lethal pilots.
Moreover, the addition of the Micro-processing Module enables droids using this programming suite to function as navigational computers, able to plot hyperspace jumps, make course corrections, and develop and store various flight plans autonomously. The droids gain the ability to eliminate the need for ships to have their own navigational computers, or for the addition or inclusion of astromech droids or similar supplementary systems.
Since droids can already perform aerial maneuvers and tactics which go beyond those of most biological pilots, they can now execute some of the galaxy’s most famous moves at higher speeds, sharper turns, steeper climbs, et al than ever before imagined. Droids using the Battlemaster II are elevated to ‘elite’ pilot status, pushing the envelope for better and more effective tactics, maneuvers, and performance, opening the doors to significant leaps forward in starfighter combat and design.
