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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To sub a model for a canine droid to be used in future submissions.
Image Source(s): [X] [X] [X]
Canon Link(s):
K-9
Dog
Primary Source(s):
R.I.C.O.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Protection, Infiltration, Reconnaissance and Special Operations Canine (P.I.R.S.O.C.) Droid
Production: Unique
Modularity: Yes, synthfur and programming can be changed or modified as desired.
Material(s):
- Synthfur
- Reflec
- Droid Components
- Segroth PGA Coating
- Duraplast
- Cellular Padding
Classification: Fourth Degree
Weight: 80kg
Height: 66cm
Movement: Quadrupedal
Armaments:
- Forward mandibles offer a bite power of 3,700 psi (roughly the bite of a saltwater crocodile)
- Bite-delivered stun charge, capable of rendering a large adult humanoid incapacitated and unsconscious.
- Triangular teeth, cause severe tissue damage and blood loss which is difficult to repair.
- Hardened claws, cause severe tissue damage and blood loss.
- Directed sonic-energy weapon, having a 20m range, capable of causing disorientation and severe pain to biological creatures.
- Droid Brain, equipped with gabonna memory crystal and heuristic processors, allowing for large data storage and learning capability, making the droid highly intelligent.
- DNA Tracer
- Olfactory Sensors, finely-tuned sensors can detect carbon monoxide, smoke, poisonous or harmful gases, explosives and various narcotics, and even identify individuals’ scents, or recognize and detect hormones and pheromones released by an individuals’ body indicating specific changes in mood, etc.
- Night-and-Low-Light Vision
- Thermal Vision
- Motion Sensors
- Taste Bud, like those in the SE4 droids, capable of identifying spoiled food or non-potable water, also recognizes more than 1,000 common toxins, poisons, and hazardous substances.
- Built-in Rangefinder with 40x telescopic vision.
- Audio Receptors, highly-sensitive they are able to detect and identify sounds up to 4km away, and at up to 100m can detect and identify footfalls, whispered voices, and other noises barely perceptible to most species’ hearing.
- Audio/Visual Recorder, with up to 120 standard minutes recording time.
- Audio/Visual Remote-Viewing Capability, via encrypted HoloNet connection, allows handlers or other authorized persons to see and hear exactly what this droid does.
- DNA-encoded secret compartment, keyed to handler, is lined with Reflec and capable of holding / concealing small items (such as a lightsaber) inside, undetectable by most sensor systems. Located on the droid’s back.
- Powerful myomer droid musculature enables powerful canid athleticism, with top speed of roughly 80km/h.
- Sound Dampeners, located in footpads allow droid to move about quietly and with much less likelihood of detection by its quarry or others.
- Special vocabulator mimics normal canid ‘language’ and enables sonic weaponry. Canid sounds are coded and understandable by the droid’s handlers, allowing for limited covert communications.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Powerful sensor array offers terrific versatility, enabling the droid to serve in multiple roles, ranging from explosives and weapons detection, narcotics discovery, location security, personal protection, service companion, search and rescue, and more. Using a combination of exceptional auditory, visual, olfactory, and even taste, as well as motion sensors, the droid is possessed of uncanny situational awareness and almost pre-cognitive detection capabilities.
- Combat armaments package is designed to serve as both lethal and non-lethal capability, adding to the droid’s versatility and making them a formidable foe. Combat programming ensures they can easily handle both sentient and non-sentient beings in singular combat, and they are surprisingly resilient to damage, thanks to their myoflex musculature, cellular padding, and Segroth PGA Coating beneath their synthfur.
- Droids appear and act as regular biological dogs, and can be customized to appear as any of several mammalian sporting or working breeds, making them difficult to identify or detect and thus rendering them perfect for personal protection, companionship, or covert infiltration-type duties.
- Droids can serve as ‘food-tasters’ ensuring that foods and other substances are safe before their handlers ingest them.
- Droid’s hidden compartment allows near-undetectable concealment of small items, including hold-out blasters or lightsabers, which are accessible only to those keyed to use the DNA-encrypted locks.
- Audio/Visual recording and remote-viewing options make them ideal for infiltration, espionage, and reconnaissance/scouting-type roles.
- Droid is programmed to be loyal and responsive to a single handler and this portion of its programming, once completed, cannot be undone. As a result, should something happen to the handler, the droid will not respond to anyone else’s commands, and will continue operating using whichever sub-routines and tasks were running upon last contact with their handler. For this reason, the droids should be deactivated in the event of their handler’s death or disappearance.
- Droid is programmed to respond to commands in whichever language the handler selects, and can be programmed with a variety of specialized sub-routines, ranging from service companionship – assisting or enabling disabled or incapacitated persons, to combat services, to even search and rescue, pursuit, or contraband detection. Baseline programming mimics canine behaviors and traits, and over time, droids develop personality traits better aligned with those of their handlers, forming close, symbiotic relationships.
- P.I.R.S.O.C. Droids provide versatile, reliable, and intensely loyal droid companions, suited a variety of tasks ranging from security and protection to working as service animals to acting as scouts for military units, able to detect and warn of pending dangers, hidden traps, etc.
- P.I.R.S.O.C. Droids mimic real dogs, and do not attract attention in the same way as other droids or equipment. They can even help to move concealed weapons or other items past security when needed via the hidden compartments found in their design.
- P.I.R.S.O.C. Droids have notable armaments which can render an enemy incapacitated or even killed quite easily and have unique combat programming to enable them to aggressively protect their handlers and to distinguish friend from foe on the battlefield.
- P.I.R.S.O.C. Droids have a large sensor array, making them excellently well-suited to security and personal protection, even able to ‘taste’ food and water to test for poisons and other harmful substances.
- P.I.R.S.O.C. Droids will only obey, and are truly loyal to, a single designated handler. If this handler is incapacitated, unavailable, or just plain dead, the droid will accept no new commands and will continue to follow the last tasks given, meaning nothing short of deactivation will work. They will not accept new handlers or others’ commands.
- P.I.R.S.O.C. Droids have a variety of combat programming, but they are not well-suited to direct-action large-scale scenarios. They cannot easily match up against several trained and armed foes at once and will be easily overwhelmed, making them impractical for these kinds of battlefield uses.
- P.I.R.S.O.C. Droids mimic actual canids, in both size and physical strength, which is only marginally higher than some breeds of actual biological dogs and wolves. They therefore suffer much the same limitations against very large humanoids or non-humanoid beasts such as rancors and krayt dragons, etc. In such cases, several droids, acting as a pack must be employed to offer any chance of success, and a lone droid will be veritably useless otherwise.
- P.I.R.S.O.C. Droids can be ‘fooled’ if they are ‘trained’ that an individual is a friend, and over time their heuristic programming causes them to consider an individual a minimal or non-existent threat to them or to their handlers. Thus, a ‘friendly’ person can win the droid’s trust and cause it to lower its guard, thereby bypassing security protocol programming. Handlers must be very sure about whom they label as ‘friends’ to these droids, as reversing this graduated programming is difficult and will cause the droid to not effectively offer protection to someone playing a ‘long game’ to get close to and harm their handler.
Designed to imitate an actual mammalian dog, with similar behaviors and traits, the P.I.R.S.O.C. droid was carefully programmed and designed to reflect the anatomy and physiology of these creatures, and were fitted with a wide-ranging sensor array, armaments, and programmed sub-routines which made the droids suitable for a variety of tasks normally assigned to canines, including:
- Location Security and Personal Protection
- Service for Disabled Persons
- Scouting and Reconnaissance
- Explosives Detection
- Narcotics Detection
- Detection of Hazardous Substances
- Hunting Assistance and Tracking
- Personal Companionship and Family Pet
- Combat Assistance
The droids’ many varied sub-routines allow for broad versatility. A unit can patrol a location, stealthily standing guard against prowlers, intruders, etc. It can provide terrific personal protection, and has strong durability even able to compensate for weapons fire or other hazards and deliver a non-lethal or lethal response as needed. They can detect explosives, such as mines, bombs, or similar threats and alert their handlers to these, as well as act as ‘point man’ carefully leading their handlers away from danger or sensing potential threats and notifying their handlers in time. The units will detect harmful gases, poisons, toxins, even spoilage in food through olfactory sensors and a ‘taste bud’ sensor located in their actuated tongues, allowing them to taste-analyze various substances. The droids’ powerful, quick, and nimble movements and highly sensitive sensors make them able to operate in a wide range of environments, making them excellent companions for explorers, military personnel, or search-and-rescue workers.
Over time, the droids will become accustomed to their handlers’ personalities and quirks, adjusting as needed their own behavior patterns. Likewise, their handlers will be able to understand subtle vocal sounds and behaviors, which discreetly allow for the droids to notify their handlers of various threats, etc. The droids will take protective positions towards their handlers, and will respond with lethal force if their handler becomes distressed or suffers some immanent threat, but will not otherwise act aggressively unless directly commanded to do so by their handlers.
Personal companionship sub-routines allow handlers to play with their droids, and games such as fetch, play wrestling, etc. are welcomed by the droids. Similarly, the droids will display affectionate, caring dispositions towards their handlers, and even to others ‘taught’ as friends.
[OOC - Production value lowered to unique; submission altered to reflect character merger, 9/16/2019]
