Big Boy
Hellhound Strategic's
Southstar-class Battle droid
Spectres from Titanfall
Intent: To provide Hellhound Strategic and its customers with an adaptable and advanced battle droid suited for a variety of tasks and situations; namely combat.
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: Hellhound Strategic
Model: Southstar-class
Affiliation: Hellhound Strategic, Open Market
Modularity: Software updates, exterior appearance alterations.
Production: Mass Produced
Material: Dura-armor plating, durasteel skeleton
Classification: Fourth Degree
Weight: 155kg
Height: 1.93m
Movement: Bipedal [Top running speed: 45kph]
Armaments: [Programmed to utilize all BlasTech and Czerka weaponry. Programming can be modified to incorporate additional weaponry.]
Misc. Equipment:
- Heuristic Processor
- Gabonna memory crystal storage unit
- Vocabulator [Basic and Binary, other languages can be added for a fee.]
- Standard targeting system
- EnhanceScan General-purpose scanner
- Gyroscopic stabilizer
- Ionization buffer
- [+] Adaptable: Utilizing an advanced heuristic processor, Southstar droids learn extremely quickly at whatever they're doing. By watching, learning, and experiencing, these droids process massive amounts of information and store it in their memory core. They're versatile and can fulfill a variety of roles including, but not limited to; automated infantry, pilots, maintenance specialists, and even medical purposes given enough time.
- [+] Memory: Thanks to their memory crystal storage cores, Southstar droids are able to store massive amounts of information and access it very quickly. This means that these quick-thinking and agile droids can become multi-roled. An infantry unit could easily fill the role of a heavy weapons specialist on the fly, providing the unit has the proper weaponry and equipment.
- [+] Not Average: These droids aren't your typical battle droids. They don't march in formations like the archaic B1s or their successors. Given their advanced CPUs and memory banks, these droids can and will operate like organic soldiers. They sprint, weave, dive, jump, and seek cover to preserve themselves just like organics do.
- [-] Memory Wipes: It's customary in this modern age for droid owners to wipe the memory cores of their droids. However, in doing this, memory wiped units will lose all of their acquired skills and revert back to their standard infantry role.
- [-] Data Access Glitches: While these droids have extremely capable processors, should a unit have lots of information stored, there could be issues with the CPU accessing it. For instance, should a unit wish to perform rudimentary mental aid to a fallen organic comrade, the data reader program could access a maintenance procedure and cause the unit to attempt to seal a wound with a plasma torch. It's a fairly uncommon instance but owners are caught between wiping their units to prevent glitches or reverting trained and specialized bots to their standard infantry roles. Droids make mistakes too.
- [-] Physical Security: Southstar droids lack physical mainframe security. As in, hackers can easily physically tap into a unit's hardware and take over it. Attempting to hack the communication and electronic signals is much, much harder though it isn't impossible.
- [-] EMP: While the ionization buffer shields the droids from ionic weaponry, electromagnetic pulses and the sort are a whole nother ball game. Those kinds of weapons are the Southstar's biggest flaw and will fry circuitry faster than you can say, "Please do not interfere with security operations."
The Southstar-class Battle Droid was designed and developed to fill the niche of a versatile droid. It's meant to be automated perfect, built to pacify any threats a customer faces. Whether they be military operations, law enforcement and security, or a variety of other solutions a battle droid can provide.
First and foremost, this droid class is built for war and its built to be good at it. Utilizing a heuristic processor like the ancient IG-100, Southstar droids learn at an blazingly fast rate and often retain the information after witnessing or experiencing it. Combining this with the heaping amount of storage space in a gabonna memory crystal, each unit can fill a variety of roles on the battlefield. The factory-issued programming core is standard infantry, so even bots fresh off the conveyor belt can jump straight into battle. However, they learn very well and become much more skilled in their warfighting tasks. A droid that's experienced lots of combat learns how to enhance his targeting algorithms to account for distance and weather conditions in order to improve its accuracy. Some models have even been known to teach their fellow droids in their free time; electronically sharing data
When it comes to physical aspects, the Southstar droid fields a reinforced durasteel skeleton with dura-armor plating on key areas. A gyropscopic stabilizer offers the droid immense strength and peerless agility and balance while a sensorscope platform allows the droid to remain vigilant against a multitude of threats. An ionization buffer covers up a huge weakness and offers ample protection against ionic weaponry. While much more protected than your average battle droid, the Southstar is certainly not invincible and shows profound weaknesses when combating users of the Force or those utilizing sluthrowers.
Their other weaknesses include data accessing glitches, in which a unit has too much data stored and the reader could access other information, which would result in mistakes occurring on the battlefield. The biggest glaring issue is the memory wipe situation, with droids using their high powered processors on the battlefield and growing more intelligent. A droid that's too smart could lead to rampancy or it even getting ahold of sentience programming, and owners can memory wipe their droids to alleviate this issue or keep their hard-earned data instead. The final weakness is hardware security, with the CPU and memory core being easily accessible to whomever. It was intentionally designed this way to make repairs and production easier but it also opens up an avenue of attack to cyber-warfighters and hackers.
All in all, this droid class has been designed to provide the galaxy with the most versatile droid out there. Easy to produce and get ahold of, customers of Hellhound Strategic will be pleased to know that they're not just getting an inexpensive droid, they're getting a droid that will provide warfighting and security solutions as well as filling alternative roles.
Hellhound Strategic is not responsible for the actions of their droids should customers fail to wipe the memory cores of their respective droids.
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