Breaking Bad
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Make: AccuTronics
Model: BB-4X Companion Droid
Serial: 4001X
Core: 278i Dual Processor
Power Supply: Rylith Crystal
Simulacrum: Human, Early Teens
Gender Identity: Masculine
Height: 1.42 meters
Weight: 40 kg
Constructed: Denon
Date of Manufacture: 848 ABY
Status: Active as of 874 ABY
Vocabulator: Regina King
TRAITS[ + ] HUMAN REPLICA DROID (DETERMINATOR). An example of an afro asskicker, though he'll occasionally wear his hair in cornrows.
[ + ] SECOND-DEGREE DROID (MR. FIX-IT). General purpose maintenance droid, with a neural chipset that is capable of running astrogation computations.
[ + ] FOURTH-DEGREE DROID (COMBAT PRAGMATIST). Favors ranged weapons and ambush strategies, as his short stature makes melee difficult.
[+/-] SOLAR POWERED. BB-4X units have a photosensitive layer of synthflesh that supports a rylith crystal power core. As a result, they become energized when exposed to sunlight and become sluggish when kept indoors.
[+/-] UNINTENTIONAL BACK-UP PLAN (COMBAT MEDIC). He has detailed files on the anatomy of many species in order to make him a more efficient killer, which also allows him to perform first aid.
[ - ] FATAL FLAW. Vulnerable to sources of ion energy, including restraining bolts. He also has to conform to the limits of his programming, which can be hacked or altered, meaning any slicer can remake him at will.
[ - ] JERKASS (KNIGHT IN SOUR ARMOR). His protocol chip was removed to turn him into an assassin droid. A lot of his personality matrix was tossed out with it.
[ - ] MOOK LIEUTENANT (ONCE DONE, NEVER FORGOTTEN). His past with the Crymorah Syndicate, which he's tried to leave behind. He's killed without remorse, helped to enslave both organics and droids, and poisoned thousands through the spice trade. To the Corporate Sector, he's a criminal. And to the Crymorah, he's a droid who knows too much. And being a droid, neither the law nor the mafia is going to be looking to take him "alive" when they catch up with him.
[ - ] YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE. Short stature and short reach.
Tactical Turtleneck
Stormneedler Sonic Sniper Rifle
Rockstar Blaster Carbine
Briletto PPK
Hold Out Blaster
Synthspray
SHIP
ST-70 Luck's Revenge
HISTORY
The BB-4X were envisioned as versatile chore bots. Caretakers who would enable aging seniors to continue living independently for longer with routine maintenance and in-home assisted living that benefited from both Class Two and Class Three droid subprocessors.
No one imagined that the mob might be interested in one.
In all official documents of the transaction, BB-4001X was a standard production model BB-4X. His physical simulacrum was adjusted to be a better match for the client that had commissioned him, a man named Harkon Quest. An aging executive in the Corporate Sector who owned a shipping and business supply company, known as Z-line. Production was finished on the droid at the AccuTronics factory on Denon and the droid was shipped to the client on Etti IV.
If you asked anybody in the Corporate Sector, they'd tell you that Quest owned Z-Line. But while many had seen Z-Line freighters moving along the hyperlanes, none could have said to know how Z-Line came by its business. It was a shell corporation. A front and cover for a man who had been a lieutenant for one of the Crymorah crime families, managing logistics for their criminal operations in the sector and dodging assassins from within the organization, the Sector Rangers, and the threats from outside. As age began to invite infirmity, the man had commissioned the droid in order to hide him in plain sight -- referring to the droid as his grandson.
Quest had the droid modified, discarding the Third Degree subprocessor and having a Fourth Degree chip installed in its place. This had the result of purging most of the droid's personality but made him a capable battle droid. BB served as Quest's attendant and bodyguard. The droid served Quest for twenty-one years, gradually taking on more and more of the old man's duties as Quest started to become infirm. By the time Quest died of old age, in 869 ABY, the droid had largely supplanted the man in the role of the Crymorah's "fixer" -- the logistician who could coordinate moving the weapons, the spice, or the slaves from multiple points and heading to various destinations.
With Quest's death, the Crymorah came to liquidate his assets. It is likely that their intention may have been to continue using the droid as well; however, Quest's programming had been precise specifically to prevent someone from within the Syndicate from doing just that. BB's loyalty programming was specific to Quest, not to the Syndicate.
When Quest died, the droid became a free agent.
For the last five years, he's tried to be just that. Exploring the universe and pondering a droid's place in it, while maintaining a constant vigilance for the past that is always closer than he'd like it to be. He doesn't know what his purpose is supposed to be, but this isn't it.
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