AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
"Class-D annihilation isn't death. It's an affront to life and the Living Force itself."
―Obi-Wan Kenobi
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Oblivion-class Purification Droids do not officially exist. On the rare occasions when their deployment is warranted, they are presented as an unusual subvariant of the formidable X15 Avalanche-series War Droid, though in truth they share little but roughly the same shape.
In stark contrast to every other weapons system created by the Globex Corporation, these death machines were created to destroy the incorporeal and the spiritual. To rend asunder daemons and unmake concentrations of otherwordly might. As a side effect of this functionality, they are able to destroy the 'souls' of still-living beings, preventing them from ever becoming one with the Force. This is potentially unpopular.
To cover up this unfortunate reality, they are generally kept far away from Jedi 'and other Mystics', though it is not unusual for the scars they inflict upon the landscape to feel distinctly wrong to the Force Sensitive. This is usually fixable by some heavy-handed landscaping.
It is believed that they would pose a significant risk to even experienced Force Sensitives, but this has not been tested extensively for two reasons. Firstly, Globex generally prefers to resolve such situations with a tide of dirt-cheap battle droids. Secondly, these droids are really bloody rare.
- Intent: Esoteric problems require esoteric solutions.
- Image Source: Canoptek Tomb Sentinel by Ivan Dedov
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: X15 Avalanche-series War Droid
- Manufacturer: The Globex Special Projects Division
- Affiliation: Globex Counterintelligence, Section 13
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Oblivion-class Purification Droid
- Modularity: Insignificant.
- Production: Semi-Unique
- Material: Voidstone-infused 'Material 2d384a'
- Classification: Fourth Degree
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Height: Very Large
- Movement: Octodecapedal (Eighteen-Legged)
- Armaments:
- [1] Class-D Disintegration Beam
- [3] Starmace Energy Mortars
- [18] Vibro-tipped Pincer-Legs
- Misc. Equipment: Various; includes Lifeform Scanners.
- Resistances: Resilient, self-regenerating armour.
- Energy Weapons: High
- Kinetic Weapons: High
- Lightsabers: High
- Oblivion-class Purification Droids are powered by an esoteric Matter Annihilation Reactor variant able to siphon energy from the matter it annihilates to fuel further annihilation; as a result, it is effectively incapable of running out of power during ordinary use.
- The Class-D Disintegration Beam, sometimes referred to as the Transcendental Annihilation Beam, destroys matter to such a degree that 'souls' may be destroyed right alongside the body. More importantly, this allows the beam to obliterate demons, spirits, and similar 'extranormal hazards'. The beam can even destroy Force Nexuses by unmaking its constituent matter.
- Oblivion-class Purification Droids seemingly have no constant internal components whatsoever - instead, they are composed of a wandering mass of self-aware nanotechnology capable of repairing itself unless irreparably damaged or scattered to the winds.
- Oblivion-class Purification Droids are infused with Voidstone particles on the molecular level - as a result, affecting the droids using the Force is immensely difficult. More insidiously still, their very presence can interfere with Force Use and has been known to induce headaches and existential dread in both Force Sensitive and Non-Sensitive organics; droids and the Force Dead are wholly unaffected.
- Malleus Maleficarum: Oblivion-class Purification Droids are resilient bordering on immune to 'extranormal hazards' such as telekinesis (as long as the droid is the target), mechu-deru, and the meddling of spirits. Furthermore, their beam weapon is able to unmake entities against which mundane weapons are useless. To prevent interruptions, this fearsome weapon is wrapped in a resilient, self-regenerating package.
- No Kill Like Overkill: Deploying such droids against mundane threats is wasteful in the extreme - their beam weapon, while most assuredly potent, is no more useful than an infinitely cheaper turbolaser against conventional combatants. Unless destroying the souls of the opposition is a goal in and of itself, it is likely to be cheaper and more efficient to deploy, say, a swarm of Stryders or a formation of Avalanches.
- A Minor Inconvenience: Attempting to destroy especially large Force Nexuses is liable to cause immense ecological and/or cultural damage and runs the risk of [DATA EXPUNGED]. Such anomalies may prove even less profitable than the anomalies they replace.
"Crazed death cultists wielding eldritch magics, holes in reality, whatever insanity the Sith are up to... need I go on?
The Jedi claim to protect us and I appreciate their efforts, but are you content with their assurance alone, honoured Directors?
I am not. I do not feel safe, cannot feel safe, until we have the means of handling such threats independently. Decisively."
- [DATA EXPUNGED] to the Board of Directors, shortly after the destruction of Csilla.
The Jedi claim to protect us and I appreciate their efforts, but are you content with their assurance alone, honoured Directors?
I am not. I do not feel safe, cannot feel safe, until we have the means of handling such threats independently. Decisively."
- [DATA EXPUNGED] to the Board of Directors, shortly after the destruction of Csilla.
Oblivion-class Purification Droids do not officially exist. On the rare occasions when their deployment is warranted, they are presented as an unusual subvariant of the formidable X15 Avalanche-series War Droid, though in truth they share little but roughly the same shape.
In stark contrast to every other weapons system created by the Globex Corporation, these death machines were created to destroy the incorporeal and the spiritual. To rend asunder daemons and unmake concentrations of otherwordly might. As a side effect of this functionality, they are able to destroy the 'souls' of still-living beings, preventing them from ever becoming one with the Force. This is potentially unpopular.
To cover up this unfortunate reality, they are generally kept far away from Jedi 'and other Mystics', though it is not unusual for the scars they inflict upon the landscape to feel distinctly wrong to the Force Sensitive. This is usually fixable by some heavy-handed landscaping.
It is believed that they would pose a significant risk to even experienced Force Sensitives, but this has not been tested extensively for two reasons. Firstly, Globex generally prefers to resolve such situations with a tide of dirt-cheap battle droids. Secondly, these droids are really bloody rare.
