OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Intelligent Targetting, Non-Lethal Stun Drone
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- Canon Link: Spy Drone | Defense Drone | Sky Reaper Drone | 301-MAX Nightlight
- Permissions: FFE is an Apex Holdings Corporation
- Primary Source: None
- Manufacturer: Apex Industrial
- Affiliation: Apex Industrial, Closed Market, Special or Endorsed Marketplace Orders Only.
- Model: SB1-A, Non-Lethal Drone
- Modularity: Only the safety protocol is optional in the design.
- Production: Mass Produced
- Material:
Agr-Dura-Nuto Alloy (ADN1)
Duravlex 45%
Agrinium 40%
Nutorium 15%
Anti-Corr 113 (Coating)
Transparisteel (Sensors)
- Classification: Fourth Degree | Security
- Weight: Very Light
- Height: Very Small
- Movement: Repulsorlift
- Armaments: Stun Cannon | Stun Ray | Stun Net
- Misc. Equipment: ATRS | Ionization Buffer
- Resistances:
Energy: Very Low
Kinetic: Very Low
Lightsabers: None
Emp or Ion: High
Electrical: High
Acidic/Biological: High
Heat/Plasma: High
Cold: Average
Sonic: Average
Sonic Wave (Concussive): Low
Cyroban: Average
Tensile: Average
Compression: Average
Slug: Low
Tensor or Tractor: Average
Explosive: Average
- Three targeting options: The basics are stun area or stun ray. Additionally, a one-shot stun net to pin difficult targets is included if required, firing from a fold-down upper area. Hardcoded safety protocols exist as standard unless requested otherwise at purchase.
- ADN series alloys don't block sensors entirely, instead, they make it hard for lock-on weapons like missiles, small turrets or point defense to target the droids automatically, and scanners to accurately keep track of its exact location. As enemies close, heat, for example, can still be used to lock to as can eyeball contact painting the target.
- Limited ionization buffers but weak armor make this model more vulnerable to regular weapons such as blasters or slugs, rather than anti droid weapons such as ion cannons. Buffers do overload of course with continual fire.
- FFE's ADN1 Alloy composite offers good heat resistance, allowing for high atmospheric drops. The Anti-Corr Coating coating helps prevent damage in extreme environments. Finally, the ionization buffer helps it operate even in bad storms. Almost making it a handy an all-weather unit.
- Standard ATRS makes this unit extremely difficult to reverse engineer or reprogram but raises the cost from cheap to average.
- Hardcoded Safety Protocol Installed as standard unless requested otherwise. - Making the unit able to intelligently decide whether it is safe to use a certain stun weapon.
- Fast and Agile. A pain to hit.
- Small, Light and Reliable. - Easy to Transport on Mass and Good for most Operational Conditions.
- Part Nutorium, Partial Sensor Blockage. - Makes lock-on weapons often miss at long range, heat can still be tracked of course at mid-range. Makes hitting reliably at very close range difficult with auto targetting weaponry.
- Small Ionization Buffer offers limited protection against anti droid weaponry and storms.
- Suitable for multiple climates types and high atmospheric drops.
- Light Armor, easily destroyed when you finally hit it.
- No Lethal Weaponry
- It can be heard coming, not loud but loud enough to alert the next room.
- Very weak to most regular conventional weapons across the board.
- No Defense vs Lightsabers
- No Defense vs Most Force Attacks.
- Operational battery lasts 5 weeks without a recharge.
After Kintan, and in response to a need from clients for a non-lethal solution to minimizing civilian and enemy casualties in warzones around the galaxy. The SB1-A was Apex Industries' first real product to market. Though their engineering leads were taken from Fire For Effect, which meant they had experience on their side, the process of designing the drone droid was not without cost and adjustment. Unlike FFE, Apex are consummate professionals, so while no one was injured physically more than one ego was bruised, culminating with one of the initial corporate sector designers being sent packing early on. The experience on offer yielded the ADN1 Alloy, which has been present in previous successful FFE product lines, and ultimately brought FFE's ATRS tamper-proofing to the project.
The SB1-A is designed to be ideally dropped blanket on mass from a ship and sent ahead into a city, spreading out to stun enemy combatants or civilian populations. The droids targetting matrix is able to identify what targets are safe to stun and what targets are not. Someone on a speeder, for example, is not safe to stun, someone on the ground in a private area away from a desk is. Things like target height are taken into account, as are the objects around the person. Obviously no device is perfect but these droids are an effective way to keep civilian incidents to a minimum and a good way to soften up enemy troops, removing the need to either kill them or for the less humanitarian, just not waste your own ammo and manpower.
It was noted in the design phase that these droids can be used in a smaller capacity to chase an individual for example, which might suit a bounty hunter or security team recovering a prisoner for trial. In the case of a bounty hunter, the none safety protocol version can be requested so the droid performs its task more aggressively. In testing, standard operating conditions showed the SB1-A's batteries' operational life rated for about 5 weeks use without a recharge, longer if they use less energy, shorter if they are deployed in combat.
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