Unreviewed SKN-222 "Monastic" Bodyguard Droid

[Helix]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To create an ultra-elite bodyguard/officer droid for the Dzara
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• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Helix Privateers
• Affiliation: The Dzara
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: SKN-222 Monastic
• Modularity: Yes
• Production: Semi-Unique
• Material:
  • Outer Self-Repair Layer: Blightsteel
  • Inner Armor Layer: Helsteel
  • General Construction/Force-Null Lattice: Helixium
  • Self-Camouflage Skin: Shiftsteel

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

• Classification: Fourth-Degree
• Weight: Average
• Height: Average
• Movement: Bipedal
• Armaments: Typically one of the following ranged options, and one melee option:
  • Ranged
    
    • OMT "Rhapsody" Neutron Carbine
    • MZL "Headhunter" Combat Shotgun
    • GLS "Nemesis" Warbow
    • MT2 "Steelbreaker" Ferro-Plasma Driver
    • E-55L Blaster Rifle
    • GMG "Dissuader" Offensive Grenades (4 per droid)
    • LMR "Falcata" Blaster Cannon
    • YTU-921 "Deviance" Crystallizer Rifle
    • SKS-450 "Harridan" Crystallizer Pistol (Integrated into forearms on all individuals)
    • RVN-236 "Scarecrow" Plasma Rifle
    • HX7 "Reticence" Hemolytic Electrolaser Rifle
    • Z99 "Diadem" Flux Arc Projector
    • GK6 "Daybreak" Holographic Projection Rifle
    • CR8 "Errant" Cryo-Arrestor
    • K65 "Tectus" Ordnance Launcher (Integrated into shoulders and back on all individuals)
  • Melee
    
    • Dzara Sunderblade (Occasionally used in pairs)
    • SLC-331 "Penitence" Flex Gauntlet (Occasionally used in pairs)
    • QTZ "Keelhaul" Vibrosword (Occasionally used in pairs)
    • GKG-455 "Inversion" Inertial Lance
• Misc. Equipment:
  • K36 "Urchin" Killscreen Generator
  • 6JL "Palisade" Thermal Shielding
  • 6N7 "Aftershock" Counterballistics Computer
  • HKR "Carrion" Navigation and Retrieval Package
• Resistances:
  • Energy: Extreme
  • Kinetic: Extreme
  • Lightsabers: Extreme
  • Heat: High
  • Cold: High
  • Sonic: Average
  • Ion: Very High
  • Acid: Average
  • Poison: Very High
  • Radiation: Very High

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Integrated weaponry
• Exceptionally superhuman speed, strength, agility, and reflexes
• Superb resistance to damage

STRENGTHS

• Best of the Best: Monastics are exceedingly strong, fast, and skilled combatants, perfect for their role as protectors.
• Nullifiers: Monastics are constructed of Force-Nullifying Helixium, rendering them impervious to direct applications of the Force.

WEAKNESSES

• Elite Core: Monastics are exceptionally few in number, and thus can have only a limited larger impact on a battlefield.

DESCRIPTION

Commissioned at the behest of Darth Nefaron , the Monastic-series droids are designed to his exact specifications.

Something of a spiritual successor to Helix's own officer droids, the Monastics are programmed with over 230 known forms of martial arts (often being trained by veteran House Assassins), as well as centuries of accumulated combat data and tactical information. Each is a supremely accurate, skilled, and deadly enemy.

Monastic droids' components are created with high-grade Helixium, granting them a truly unpleasant combination of Force-immunity, regenerative capability, and a chameleonic surface to more easily blend in with their environments. Likewise, all such models are possessed of greatly-superhuman strength, agility, and accuracy, aided by the inclusion of inbuilt Aftershock and Carrion software into their systems.

They may be found wielding all manner of weapons, including rarer and more exotic Helix-made armaments. No two droids will be alike in their preference of arms, and thus, their would-be opponents should be prepared to face the full breadth of Helix's diseased genius. Most models also feature hidden integrated weaponry, the better to ensure that they remain quite deadly even in settings that restrict the carrying of arms.

Pound for pound, these machines would be better served leading armies, conquering nations, and carving a path of blood across the galaxy in their own right. There are few other creations of the Dzara that manage this level of individual deadliness. Indeed, they are sometimes dispatched for such purposes, and can be tasked to assassinate key enemy personnel (in small teams or alone) lead important military task forces, or other tasks that cannot be trusted to anything less than the Dzara's best.

Monastics have been observed tearing the doors from armored bunkers, breaking the skulls of charging war beasts with a single blow, surviving unprotected atmospheric reentry, and darting between the heartbeat-thin gaps in automatic weapons fire. Blessedly (for the Dzara's enemies), these regal protectors remain uncommon, and the significant investment in time, effort, and money that each represents ensures that they are deployed with great care (and rarity).