OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: An advanced battle droid for The Kainate and select Sith Imperial assignments.
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- Canon Link: Dark Trooper
- Permissions: Darth Carnifex
- Primary Source: Dark Trooper (third-generation)
- Manufacturer: Malsheem Self-Regulating Droid Factories
- Affiliation: The Kainate/The Sith Empire
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: No
- Production: Limited
- Material: Tal'Beskar, Durasteel, Rocket Components, Droid Components
- Classification: Fourth Degree
- Weight: Heavy
- Height: Large
- Movement: Bipedal
- Armaments: Capable of wielding any weapons a humanoid might wield.
- Misc. Equipment:
- Energy Shield
- 360-degree Auxiliary Sensors
- Magnetizable All-Terrain Legs
- Rocket Boosters
- Advanced Servomotors
- Targetting Sensors
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Module
- Holonet Transmitter/Receiver
- Visual and Audio Receptors
- Resistances (Optional):
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: Very High
- Force: High
- EMP/Ion: None
- Sonic: Very Low
- Adaptive Combat Programming
- Built In Rocket Boosters
- Voice Modulation Programming
- Anti-Capture Self Destruct System
- Adaptive Combat Programming: Carnifex-class Dark Troopers are programmed to be able to adapt to any combat situation, and possess a vast internal library of military and squad tactics, combat styles and the know-how to use most forms of weaponry without issue. This makes them far deadlier than your average battle droids. Dark Trooper processing power is comparable to that of a Super Tactical Droid.
- Tal'Beskar: Forged from Tal'Beskar forged within the worldcraft Malsheem using dark techniques. Carnifex-class Dark Troopers are extremely durable droid soldiers. Tal'Beskar is also highly resistant to the force, strengthening the droids against force sensitives immensely.
- Capable of Flight: Using thrusters built into their feet, Carnifex-class Dark Troopers are capable of flying, enabling them to both deploy straight from ships without the need for landing craft, as well as traversing the battlefield aerially. These thrusters are also fully functional in space as well, making Carnifex-class Dark Troopers incredibly useful for boarding actions.
- Vulnerable to Sonic and Ion: Despite it's very high endurance to most forms of attack, the Carnifex-class Dark Trooper is, alas, still a droid. EMP weaponry can prove highly effective in disabling it, and Sonic weaponry is effective against it like regular Beskar.
- Slow on Foot: Despite their maneuveurability via flight, Dark Troopers are not the fastest when it comes to moving on the ground. The fastest they'll move is a very hastened walk, but for the most part they tend to move at their own pace, which may give faster opponents a way to escape or out maneuveur them.
- Production: Due to the difficulty of crafting Tal'Beskar, Carnifex-class Dark Troopers are difficult to mass produce, and as such are unviable for mass deployment.
Conceived by Grand Moff Decimus and Sera Naberrie as a revival of Rohm Mohc's Dark Trooper program, the Carnifex-class Dark Trooper was named in tribute to the former Sith Emperor himself, and designed to provide his Kainate with an elite, unrelenting core of mechanized droid soldiers. They were designed to be highly durable weapons of war, unyielding and merciless to the foes of Grand Moff Decimus and his master, Darth Carnifex.
The project was developed in utter secrecy. Large stocks of Tal'Beskar ingots were produced within Malsheem in secrecy to serve as materials for the new project. The durability of this alloy was without question, so it was considered the perfect material for the new Dark Troopers.
Once the first fully functional prototypes were constructed and thoroughly tested, they were dispatched for a secret field test against insurrectionist elements within Sith Imperial territory. The test was a huge success, as the surprisingly well armed insurrectionists were slaughtered efficiently with minimal damage to the Dark Trooper prototypes. Issues were found however with a vulnerability to sonic and ion weaponry, though such was considered acceptable given the droid was extremely resistant to everything else.
The Carnifex-class Dark Troopers are now being produced within production lines aboard the worldcraft Malsheem, where they are gradually being assigned to vessels in platoons of 40 amongst the Kainate Shadow Fleet, ready for deployment, as well as select assignments across the Sith Empire at large. To prevent capture if disabled by the enemy, all units are fitted with a self destruct system in the event hostile forces attempt to seize and tamper with them.
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