AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
- Intent: Maximise lethality, minimise humanisation.
- Image Source: Blood Machines by @No_Tables
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: X14 Stryder | Vanguard War Droid
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: Globex Security Division
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: X15 Avalanche-series War Droid, aka the Centipede.
- Modularity: Significant; aesthetics alterations, programming, variable weapons (see Armaments). Droid brain may be replaced with organic analogues (most commonly Neurocogitators) to satisfy clients with special needs.
- Production: Minor
- Material: Duraplast-plated Hexalloy.
- Classification: Class Four
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Height: Large
- Movement: Decapedal
- Armaments: Variable; model dependent.
- [1] Spinal Heavy Weapon Hardpoint
- Superheavy Flamethrower
- Antimaterial Railgun (Precision)
- Heavy Gatling Blaster (Rapid-Fire)
- Light 'Starhammer' Plasma Cannon
- [4] Retractable Light Weapon Hardpoints
- Heavy Infantry-grade Blaster
- Light Gatling Blaster (Rapid-Fire)
- [8] Light Munitions Launchers [Variable Payload]
- [25] Deathwasps each, or
- [5] Micro-Rockets each, or
- [1] Rocket each; variable payload.
- [1] Spinal Heavy Weapon Hardpoint
- Misc. Equipment:
- Selective Life Preservation Programming w/ TDM-7-B "Verity" Morality Chip Failsafe.
- Forward-facing Photoreceptors (Long-Range Broad Spectrum; no anti-stealth.)
- Advanced 360-degree Sensor Suite (Thermal, Motion, & Metal Scanners.)
- Standard Vocabulator w/ Basic Social Interaction Suite
- Less Protocol Droid, more "ALERT: Surrender or face termination."
- Advanced Slicing Countermeasures
- Encrypted Communications Suite
- All-Environment Navigation Suite
- Repulsors (Airdrop + Mobility)
- Magno-grip All-Terrain Legs
- Standard Ionisation Buffer
- Self-Destruct Mechanism
- Computer Interface Arms
- Resistances: Redundant armouring, integrated energy shield.
- Energy Weapons: Very High
- Kinetic Weapons: High
- Lightsabers: Average
- Disruptors: Low
- Some battle droids are made to perform maintenance, operate vehicles, and appear relatable to civilians. Some. The Avalance-series is the culmination of Globex's decidedly less humanised design philosophy, murderous blood machines deprived of fear or mercy. Once they have taken to the field, nuance quickly withers and dies - woe betide those who dare place themselves in the path of their objective.
- Avalanches are programmed to fulfil their objective in the most efficient manner possible, which sometimes entails their own violent destruction. It is far from unheard of for these droids to detonate their power cores/remaining munitions when Sith/Jedi close in.
- Avalanches may carry deployable eyebots for reconnaissance purposes.
- Blood Machine: Avalanches are incredibly durable, ruthlessly efficient, and packing as much firepower as your average infantry platoon.
- Inexorable: Avalanches possess the heavy armouring and layers of redundancy needed to shrug off small arms fire with impunity.
- Blood Machine: Avalanches are, as the name would indicate, cumbersome, unsubtle, and incapable of cunning or deception.
- Bullseye: Avalanches are resilient, but not invulnerable - even a normal service pistol can disable one by focusing down an 'eye'.
"It was supposed to be an easy job - nab a Corpo's kid, make a quick buck. We didn't mean to hurt the brat and never in our wildest dreams would we have anticipated the response: Those accursed... blood machines. Butchery without due process and yet CorpSec did nothing."
- Dalton Cej, Interrogation Log #1. Prisoner designated for [REDACTED], transferred to Archangel custody.
- Dalton Cej, Interrogation Log #1. Prisoner designated for [REDACTED], transferred to Archangel custody.
Butchers, blood machines, inhuman engines of destruction. Despite their fearsome reputation, most Avalanches are not programmed to enjoy the carnage they wreak, instead being driven by nought but cold logic and heuristic targeting protocols. That said, 'terminating valid targets in a brutal manner to demotivate the opposition' is all too often beneficial to the mission at hand - as a result, Avalances often crush body parts underfoot.
"Sixteen dead, two wounded. DNA samples retrieved from unidentifiables, incendiary clean-up protocols recommended due to organic detritus in difficult to reach places. Surface damage to Unit C-1155, diagnostics reveal 3.7% divergence from optimum; maintenance scheduled."
ACTION LOG #5181 // CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
ACTION LOG #5181 // CONFIDENTIAL - NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Whatever the temperature, the Avalanches advance. Whatever the surface, the Avalanches advance. Atop the hulls of spacecraft and across the most humid of swamps, the Avalanches advance. They do not cease until destroyed or ordered to redeploy, not even when their gas cylinders run dry and their munitions launchers lay barren, not so long as they are properly supported - typically by airborne or burrowing delivery drones.
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