Shuklaar Kyrdol
CEO of Breshig War Forge Consolidated
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create an advanced, heuristically learning droid brain with multiple interchangeable memory modules that allow it to perform different functions, with or without combat training.
- Image Source: N/A.
- Canon Link: N/A.
- Permissions: N/A.
- Primary Source: Droid Brain.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Breshig War Forge Consolidated.
- Affiliation: Breshig War Forge Consolidated and Strill Securities.
- Market Status: Closed-Market.
- Model: 'Gar'mirshe' Droid Brain.
- Modularity: The droid brain can be used in a variety of different designs provided that the chassis are purpose built to make use of the droid brain's functions. The droid brain comes with modular memory chips that easily allow the brain to be modified to perform different functions. Droids that have been activated must have their memory cleared first. The company cautions making any modifications to the configuration of an already constructed droid.
- Production: Minor.
- Material:
- Export model: Molecularly-bonded Duranium frame, Agrinium mesh, Duravlex lining, Condensed-matter composite reinforcements, Thermal Gel liner, Molecularly-bonded Duranium-Reinforced Stygian-triprismatic polymer composite armor, combat de-ionizer, ionization buffer and Ultrachrome circuitry, wiring and electronics.
- Mandalorian customer and internal model: Stesr'gar frame, Agrinium mesh, Duravlex lining, Condensed-matter composite reinforcements, Thermal Gel liner, Stesr'gar-Reinforced Stygian-triprismatic polymer composite armor, combat de-ionizer, ionization buffer and Ultrachrome circuitry, wiring and electronics.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Processor:
- Heuristic Processor
- Mimetic Combat Processor (Combat Droids only): Rather than be used to mimic an opponent's fighting style, the processor allows the droids to study the opponent's style and potentially develop a counter.
- Specialized Subprocessor(s)
- Supplementary Modules:
- Droid System Fortification
- GPS Module
- Spot-on Locator
- Urban Compass
- Diagnostic Systems
- Manda Tactical Battlenet - Ground Variant
- Investigation and Analysis Computer: Enables the droid to investigate situations and anomalies and analyze them to ascertain what to do about them.
- Probability Module and Probability Projection Computer
- Threat Evaluation Module
- Droid Reference Database (kept up to date via regular updates from company servers)
- Logic Display Sensor
- Gyroscopic Stabilizer
- Protocol Chip and Personality Matrix: Rather than program their droids with any particular personality, the company preferred to give it's droids a set of cultural guidelines to follow and allow it to develop its own personality, believing that such a method would encourage more versatility in a unit of droids as well as make them easier to interact with.
- Memory:
- Programming Routines: Each module ships on a different memory chip, allowing for different modules to be used.
- Core Programming (overridden by certain ancialiary routines and modules):
- Combat Trained/Combat Droids:
- Droid Anatomy Upgrade: The anatomy database also gives most droids rudimentary first aid capabilities to aid their allies.
- Hand-to-hand/Close Quarters Combat Techniques:
- Teras Kasi
- Mandalorian Armed and Unarmed CQC Techniques
- Tactical Combat Routines:
- Parabolic Guides
- Droid Combat Enhancement
- Droid Battle Upgrade
- Weapons Training; Droids can make use of basic ranged, melee and even use improvised weapons. Combat trained and combat droids are trained to use any weapon produced by the company as well as those similar enough to weapons produced by the company.
- Strategic Combat Routines:
- Combat Droids Only:
- Force User Database:
- Slicing/Network Security:
- RRDM
- Counter-slicing Techniques
- Slicing Techniques
- Utility Software:
- Defensive Software:
- Viruses and Offensive Software:
- Medical:
- Cognitive Matrix Analysis Package
- Guidance Matrix (keyed to IFF recognition system and Manda module)
- Medical Database
- Holonet search capabilities (licensed access to various journals and databases)
- Information Sort and Display functions
- Medical Diagnostics functions
- Wireless Medical Bay Link compatibility
- Crew/Pilot:
- Micro-processing Module
- Repair Database
- Astrogation Buffer
- Starship Tactical Combat Routines:
- Starship Strategic Combat Routines:
- Counter-slicing Package:
- RRDM
- Magnetic Pulse Wiper (last resort)
- Socketguard
- Echo Pulse
- Pyrowall
- Self-preservation Systems:
- Vocabulator: The droid defaults to Mando'a but will switch to any language those it operates under and alongside speak.
- Self-Destruct Baradium Charge: The self-destruct baradium charge is an anti-tamper charge that will trigger if the droid brain is accessed without the appropriate maintenance codes or if the magnetic pulse wiper does not activate for any particular reason.
STRENGTHS
- Advanced Analytics and Learning Capabilities: The Gar'mirshe is an extremely advanced heuristically learning droid brain that puts a wide variety of analytical tools and databases at the droid's disposal to allow it to make the best possible decisions and learn to consistently do so in the face of changing circumstances.
- Suited to the Task: Each of the memory modules is night on perfectly suited to the task it was designed for, putting a wide variety of databases, supplementary programming and utility software at the droid's disposal to allow it to excel in its role.
- Resilient: The Gar'mirshe droid brain is built to last more or less anything that the droid might come up against while performing its functions, and is protected against a wide variety of damage that might be faced in an industrial environment or on the battlefield.
- Secure: The Gar'mirshe is extremely well-secured against attacks by slicers, and notably greatly protects access to the droid's core functions.
WEAKNESSES
- It's a Droid: Droids will scarcely ever display the same level of lateral thinking as an organic. As capable in their respective fields as these droids are, they will always be disadvantaged in that regard when up against an organic of equivalent experience and skill.
- EMP/Ion: The Gar'mirshe as would be expected has a lot of sensitive electronic components that if hit with a powerful enough EMP/Ion weapon could end up greatly damaging or entirely frying the droid brain.
- Specialized: The memory modules do mean that the droids are entirely specialized in their respective roles/fields. They are not, and will never be able to perform another task that they weren't intended to perform.
- Capable Chassis: To take full advantage of the droid brain's capabilities, a suitably capable chassis is required. Without such, many of the droid's features are wasted.
- The Force: The droid brain has no defenses against the various force powers that can be used against it.
DESCRIPTION
"Yes, our droids are sentient. Yes, they wholeheartedly embrace the SuperCommando codex. No, they don't know what to do with credits and really, they've got no need for them. I'm sure they won't say no if you offer credits though, but what are you asking me for? That's a question for your droid."
- Breshig War Forge Consolidated CEO Shuklaar Kyrdol to press during the launch of the Gar'mirshe
"You'd think the fact that they can feel would make them any less deadly. It absolutely shabla does not. They just get pissed off when you shoot them."
- Strill Securities Colonel Ruus Kote speaking about the company's Gar'verd Infantry Droids who notably make use of the Gar'mirshe as their droid brain.
Mandalorians have always made use of droids since their earliest days, whether it was the Bes'uliik of legend, or the BL-series Legionnaire droids of times past, or the very modern, contemporary incarnations of the Bes'uliik and a wide variety of droids made use of by contemporary Mandalorians. To many Mandalorians, these droids were vode, aliit even. Breshig War Forge Consolidated had always sought to improve on that. Instilling their droids with what it meant to be Mandalorian, and giving them everything they need to do their task and nothing more, droids using the Gar'mirshe were not only easier to work with, but freely chose to carry out their assigned tasks. The droids carried out their tasks with the abject professionalism that the SuperCommando codex called for. The few droids that did request payment worked for pittance, most of them seeing very little use if any for credits.
Rather than produce multiple droid brains for multiple tasks, the company created an interchangeable memory chips to allow the droid brains to be configured to perform whatever role the droid it's being installed into is required to perform. The memory modules do mean that the droids are entirely specialized in their respective roles/fields. They are not, and will never be able to perform another task that they weren't intended to perform. These chips can be changed in an already assembled droid, but a full memory wipe is recommended first, and the company still discourages customers from changing chips on an already assembled, functioning droid. The droid's heuristic learning capabilities and advanced analytics allow the droid to 'learn on the job' and it's sentience programming gives it a degree of lateral thinking not usually found in most droids, allowing the droids to put their considerable databases, supplementary programming and utility software included with the memory chips to greater use. That said, droids still more often than not display a lesser degree of lateral thinking than organics, as capable in their respective fields as these droids are, they will always be disadvantaged in that regard when up against an organic of equivalent experience and skill.
The droid brain itself is built Mandalorian sturdy, and is protected against a wide variety of potential sources of damage that the droid might encounter in an industrial environment or on the battlefield. Additionally, the droid comes with a considerable cyber security suite, combining a variety of different measures to prevent unauthorized access, remote or otherwise. Should the droid brain be accessed by those without the correct codes and communication protocols, a magnetic pulse wiper will ensure that the droid cannot be subverted against those with works with and for. Should the magnetic pulse wiper fail, the droid brain comes with a baradium self-destruct charge that will destroy it.
While extremely advanced, the Gar'mirshe requires a capable droid chassis to take advantage of the variety of advanced features that it possesses. At the end of the day, it is still a droid brain, and the Gar'mirshe will be greatly damaged if not destroyed by any EMP/Ion weapons potent enough to bypass or overwhelm it's considerable defences. When it comes to the force, however, the Gar'mirshe is entirely defenseless. The company has a variety of solutions for the above when it comes to their own droids, and encourages customers expecting their droids to be engaging force users to develop their own solutions or use their upcoming solution.
