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Approved NPC Rainbone

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
  • Intent: To submit an Incursion Event NPC gifted by its writer [member="Tmoxin Temi"] for use as Archim's personal droid companion.
  • ​Image Credit: Transformers Lockdown Dog - Fausto de Martini
  • Role: Personal security for the Lord of the Mechanicum.
  • Links: Welcome to the Machine (Incursion PvE)
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
  • Service Span: Unknown
  • Force Sensitivity: Non-Force User
  • Species: Semi-Sentient Shard Android Canine Unit
  • Appearance: Resembles a very large metallic dog with razor sharp teeth and claw like paws. In passive mode, the android's photoreceptors are tinted a pleasing shade of blue, but in combat mode they shift into a violent shade of crimson red.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
  • Name: Rainbone
  • Loyalties: Archim Calixis
  • Wealth: None, is a dog.
  • Notable Possessions: A large piece of metal scrap it uses to sharpen its incisors and occasionally to spar with.
  • Skills: Advanced Attack and Defense Protocols complete with Friend or Foe Recognition. Limited electronic interference capability.
  • Personality: Apparently designed to closely mimic the behavior patterns of organic fauna, Rainbone is nevertheless significantly smarter than the average pup. While its behaviors are limited by its protocols, the android possesses cognitive power more comparable to an astromech droid than wildlife. Often communicates digitally, but when provoked can be known to elicit distorted barks of electronic white noise.
COMBAT INFORMATION
  • Weapon of Choice: Claws and/or Teeth
  • Combat Function:
(+) Attack Protocols: Rainbone was designed with violent intent, and possesses advanced combat programming which allows it to understand complex strategy and tactical thinking. Capable of distinguishing friend from foe as dictated by its system administrator Archim Calixis.
(+) Deflector Shield: Very similar to the design of a droideka, Rainbone is capable of activating an internally powered personal energy shield that is capable of deflecting or absorbing any manner of energy or projectile fire up to the level of a light artillery bolt.
(+) System Link: In direct interface with Lord Calixis at all times except for in power save mode. Efficacy restricted by physical proximity, but when close enough Archim is capable of seeing what Rainbone sees, triggering his attack protocols from afar, and even remotely interfacing with computer terminals by proxy using the canine's own scomp link.
(-) Meatbags Suck: While his master has managed to patch over much of Rainbone's anti-organic source code, there are still digital remnants of a prior firmware state which follows clear extermination subroutines. For as long as the android is connected with Lord Calixis, it will tolerate the presence of biologic organisms albeit grudgingly. But if that connection were to be severed in such an environment, the probability of ensuing mayhem would be high.
(-) Shield Weak Point: Also similar to destroyer droids, Rainbone's personal deflector has a weak spot at the very top of the shield, a point where lightsabers and blasters are able to penetrate. Not possessing any blaster weaponry like a droideka, this shield also limits the android's offensive options, making it a tool most often used for closing the distance and escape.
(-) Ion Vulnerability: Because it is not a true Shard, ion weaponry and high powered electromagnetic pulses are capable of damaging not only its exterior systems, but high level functions as well. Like a droid, if subjected to a sustained ionic barrage the resulting damage would be enough to overload its cognitive centers resulting in permanent death.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION

Not much is known about the details of Rainbone's creation or its early service span, although Mechanicum enginseers are already hard at work attempting to understand and recreate as much of the technology that makes the android function as they possibly can. It is hypothesized that the semi-sentient Shard was intended as an early stage experiment by its own kind on the merits of more fully interfacing their physiology with synthetic components. A complex interlace of Shard crystal and cognitive processors appear to comprise the canine's high level functions, and it could be argued that Rainbone is some form of Shard cyborg.

First discovered on Tartarus, the android was apparently dispatched as a calculated lure by the Shard overmind to draw first responders from across the galaxy deeper into their trap. It was here Rainbone first encountered the Archim Calixis of the Mechanicum, a Metal Lord and sworn vassal to the Iron Protector [member="HK-36"]. Attempting to interface directly with the android's systems in an attempt to gain some intelligence on the current situation, Lord Calixis unintentionally developed a form of local area network with Rainbone that persisted even after its masters' Incursion was repelled.

After stepping onto the transport pad the canine had led him to, Archim found himself suddenly awakening several days later practically on the other side of the galaxy, and to his astonishment Rainbone was sitting obediently at his side as if waiting for him to get up. Apparently rejected from entry into the final phase of the Shard's plan, most likely Archim reasoned because of his nature, the Metal Lord considered the matter resolved and had flagged Taratarus as an unwelcoming environment for the Mechanicum.

Unbeknownst to Lord Calixis, his transport had not been diverted at all. Any recollection of his meeting with Rainbone's original masters and the conversation which resulted in his acquisition of the canine as his companion had somehow been wiped from his memory banks.
 
[member="Archim Calixis"]

Do you have a factory sub for this? Unless there's a canon model of canine android for you to link here, this will inevitably require some sort of approved factory submission.

I can move this to the Pre-Codex until that's done, if you'd like.
 
[member="Feeto Chivaro"]

It was originally an Incursion PC so no I don't believe so. It is part Shard, so I'll confess needing a factory write up for the tech bits did not occur to me. I would appreciate this being moved to pre-codex until I can find the time to get something together.
 
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