Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To provide a wookiee version of the Hoplite series Synthetic Soldier
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Canon Link: N/A
Restricted Missions: N/A
Primary Source: Synthdroid, Hoplite series Synthetic Soldier
Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
Model: Arrichit series Synthetic Soldier
Production: Mass-Produced.
Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi, Closed Market
Modularity: Basic Appearance, knowledge cartridge, accoutrements (typical soldier gear and weapons)
Material: Soma series Body Chassis, Psykhe series Droid Brain, Synthflesh, Synthfur, Rybcoarse/Biofiber-based artificial muscles, quantum fiber subdermal armor, hydro-glycolic fuel cells, Phrik vibroshiv blades
Classification: Fourth Degree
Weight: ~2.1 meters
Height: ~135 kilograms
Movement: Bipedal
Armaments: 10 retractable Phrik vibroshivs in fingers
Misc. Equipment:
Psykhe series Droid Brain
Soma series Body Chassis
subdermal quantum fiber armor layer
Hi-sense Enhanced Eyeshttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hi-Sense_Enhanced_Eyes
SPECIAL FEATURES
Wookiee Replicas: While actually droids, the Arrichit series Synthetic Soldiers are designed to appear as typical wookiees upon casual inspection. A key element of this is the use of a Soma series Droid Chassis to mimic a wookiee's frame. This framework is then covered in artificial rybcoarse/biofiber muscles to as servo-motors and then covered in synthflesh, much like their direct predecessor, the Hoplite series Synthetic Soldiers. Unlike the Hoplite, the Arrichit is then covered in Synthfur. This allows the Arrichit to easily replicate the appearance and typical physical performance of the average Wookiee warrior.
Variable Appearance: Arrichit series Synthetic Soldiers use basic synthdroid construction, meaning that it takes only little effort to sculpt or dye the synthflesh to make it look like a variety of wookiees. Arrichit Synthetic Soldiers typically possess randomized appearance traits to make them look like more organic units on the battlefield, though purchasers can specify certain physical appearances if desired. However, their actual appearance as a wookiee is not perfect, falling somewhat between the low-end Synthdroids and high-end HRDs. Most people can tell their true nature just from visual observation after spending around ten minutes with them, though frequently the droid's simple personality gives them away before that, if the observer is familiar with Wookiee culture.
Variable Personality: While only capable of having simple personalities because of the robust nature of their droid brain, Arrichits can be programmed with a variety of personalities that can be summed up in one word such as “dutiful”, “wary”, “aggressive”, etc. This means that while they're not particularly intelligent or creative fighters, they are not universally predictable either.
Subdermal Armor: While an Arrichit appears to be a normal wookiee on the outside, they actually have two layers of quantum fiber right underneath their synthflesh. This is fairly minor protection that does not provide significant protection against most direct fire weapons, but it is useful for surviving things like absorbing shrapnel, ricochets, and blows from melee weapons like daggers or clubs. This provides them with a minor edge in durability compared to the average wookiee body.
Hi-sense Enhanced Eyes: Synthetic soldiers use off the shelf Hi-sense Enhanced Eyes originally intended for cyborgs as photo-receptors. These provide the Arrichit with slightly better than average baseline vision than a typical human, along with a limited ability to see in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums.
Ion/EMP resistant: Using bioengineered systems, such as through the organoform circuitry, artificial muscles, and the core processors of the droid brain, make Arrichits inherently more resistant to the effects of EMP/Ion weapons by their biological origins. The Soma-series Droid Chassis further protects not only these components, but also adds shielding to some of the droid's electrical components: the 'skull' notably encapsulates the electrical components of the droid brain along with the vocabulator and Hi-Sense Eyes. This does not mean that the droids are entirely immune to such attacks. As an example, direct hit to the skull by a weapon like a DEMP gun is likely to fry the droid brain. What this does do is make them much less vulnerable to diffuse, wide-area attacks, such as airburst EMP devices like Magnetic bombards or ion grenades.
Retractable Vibro-Shivs: Imitating a wookiee's natural, retractable claws, the Arrichit has rectractable phrik vibroshivs in its knuckles. Aside from being used as close-quarters weapons, they can be used to aid the Arrichit in climbing or scaling up vertical obstacles, such as large trees or buildings.
Strength of the Wookiees: Arrichit Synthetic Soldiers are typically more capable physically than the average human soldier, and typically are comparable to a fit wookiee in terms of strength, endurance, and power. Additionally, compared to wookiees and most organic species, they have somewhat better physical durability and enhanced vision.
Defense in Principle: Arrichit Synthetic Soldiers are an unusual amalgram of organic and inorganic technology. The use of (partially)organic components such as the ryboarse muscles, organoform circuitry, and bio-computer based droid brain, and a hydro-glycolic fuel cell/energy crystal artificial metabolism makes Arrichits resistant to the original banes of battle droids: Ion/EMP weapons and hacking attempts.
Tribal Warriors: The Arrichit doesn't only merely mimic the wookiee's physical appearance on the battlefield, but also incorporates a hard-wired fighting routine involving the use of Ryyk blades, bowcasters, and the wookiee martial art of Wrruushi. This allows the Arrichit to better blend in with Wookiee fighters and takes advantage of the hundreds of years of Wookiee experience in using a similar, impressive physical frame to best of their advantage. This makes Arrichits exceptional close quarters fighters on their own, even without additional knowledge cartridges.
Weaknesses:
Limited Intelligence: While intended to largely replace organic soldiers and supplement wookiee warrriors, Arrichits are notably less creative or well-rounded in terms of actual skills compared to organics. Additionally, the Arrichit's relatively simple personality makes them not as suited for changing social environments compared to organic soldiers.
Environmental Prone: The same artificially organic components that allow Arrichits to bypass to many of the common pitfalls of droids also makes them vulnerable to hazards that don't typically affect droids, such as radiation and certain diseases. However, the droids are unaffected by limited submersion in water.
As Adaptable as a Wookiee: Arrichits suffer many of the same adaptability issues as the typical wookiee. Many weapons, armor, and gear simply aren't designed for their use and are incompatible or not easily used by them. They are also noticeably larger than the standard organic, making them larger targets on the battlefield and a mobility liability in closely confined spaces.
After the introduction of the Hoplite series Synthetic Soldier, Lucerne Labs turned their efforts to developing their next biomemetic battle droid. Because of their extensive ties to the wookiees through one of their factories on the wookiee world of Kwookrrr, Lucerne Labs next sought to emulate the ferocious strength of wookiee warriors. The resulting Arrichit series Synthetic Soldier makes an acceptable substitute for these legendary warriors.
Practically indistinguishably from actual wookiee warriors by the casual outside observers, Arrichits possess exceptional physical strength and battle prowess that is not only a result of simple biomemetic emulation, but cultural emulation as well. One of the droid's knowledge cartridge slots holds extensive information on the use of the Ryyk blade, bowcaster, and the wookiee martial art of Wrruushi. Arrichits also make use of phrik vibroshivs in place of the wookiee's natural claws. These traits all make Arrichits imposing fighters in close-quarters combat.
While more rare than Hoplites in service, Arrichits are largely fielded in the same manner as rank and file soldiers, particularly on wookiee colony worlds under the aegis of ISAF protection and Silver Jedi affiliation. Thus, Arrichits not only fill the role as traditional warriors and defenders, but also as vehicle crews and other ancillary combat staff through the use of modular programming derived from using knowledge cartridges. This adaptability allows entire mixed arm units to be staffed entirely by Arrichits. However, it is not uncommon to see them added to organic forces as replacements or augmented manpower, where the droid's limited intelligence and creativity can be partially offset by that of its organic peers. Arrichit-based units are most common on the wookiee colony world of Kwookrrr, but they can also be commonly found within Silver Jedi space or in Directorate-affiliated companies or operations.
Technical Explanations:
Personality: Arrichits only support a fairly simple personality matrix due to their use of the Psykhe Droid Brain. This limited personality also means that the droids are not capable of learning heuristically. To partially compensate for this and make them less predictable, the droid can accept a variety of basic personalities that can typically be summed up in a single word. Some of the most common default personality types from the factory are described as “dutiful”, “wary”, and “aggressive”. All personality see themselves first and foremost as soldiers and warriors, which largely regulates and channels their personality's motivations and methodologies to productive ends.
Skillset: The Psykhe droid brain and its associated personality matrix are designed to support a warrior persona which is enabled by including a competency skillset of basic combat survival skills within the core programming itself. This core programming isn't terribly impressive by itself, but it serves primarily as a contextual junction point for the programming which comes from the three knowledge cartridges that can be inserted into the droid brain itself. These cartridges allow Synthetic Soldiers to be much more adaptable on the battlefield than many of their battle droid peers while making the process user-friendly even to those with limited technical skills. To change cartridge, the droid must be brought offline, the back of head panel accessed, the correct authorization credentials and passcodes entered. The cartridge can then be twisted in or out of the droid brain's adapters. Typically, one cartridge contains all of the information about the organization that the droid belongs to, such as its basic history, chain of command, strategic and tactical doctrines, and specific operations information (friend or foe programming, maps, etc). Another cartridge typically supports the programming to effectively operate a small number of specific weapons(ex. Alliance small arms) or a broad class of associated weapons(such as blaster rifles). Another cartridge is dedicated to effectively using equipment assigned to the droid, typically things like battle armor or tools originally designed for humans. Occasionally, this slot is replaced with the knowledge on how to use and maintain a specific type of vehicle. The last slot in the Psykhe droid brain has been hardwired with a wookiee's martial knowledge in the use of traditional Wookiee weapons such as the Ryyk blade and bowcaster, as well as the traditional wookiee martial art of Wrruushi. By fusing all of these programmings together through the droid's personality matrix, Arrichits's combat skills become largely equivalent to trained, but not veteran, wookiee warrior. Arrichits do not speak basic by default, but rather traditional wookiee languages such as Shyriiwook, Thykarann, or Xaczik depending on the buyer's preference.
Artificial Anatomy: Arrichits derive most of their uniquely hybrid organic and artificial nature by the use of a Psykhe Droid Brain and Soma series Body Chassis. Biofiber and Rybcoarse-based artificial muscles are attached to this frame to act in a matter similar to traditional servo-motors, which in turn are covered by quantum fiber underlay with synthflesh and synthfur on top. These basic systems form the basis of the Arrichits appearance and ability to almost serve interchangeably for and among wookiee warriors. But Arrichits not only emulate typical wookiee warriors, but actually surpass them in few characteristics, which largely serves to make up for their poorer intellectual ability compared to organic soldiers. This all starts with the use of short-acting hydro-glycolic fuel cells and long-term storage energy crystals. Arrichits appear to drink a watery solution that is actually hydro-glycolic fuel, when then travels down to the 'stomach', which then circulates the fuel through tubing to micro hydro-glycolic fuel cells located across the body which then provide local power to the needed components, whether its artificial muscles or the droid brain. Excess fuel can be converted to electrical charge which is then stored in a pair of energy crystals located in the droid's abdomen. Charge from these crystals can then by cycled through the body by wiring located within the Soma series Droid Chassis skeleton. This is typically used as a back-up or auxiliary system, as the amount of charge that can by moved by this system is relatively small. This can be used to jump-start the droid. Once the droid and its components have power, the droid brain acts much like a human brain, coordinating a variety of actions that are carried out through the organoform circuitry within the Soma series Droid Chassis (much like a human's nervous system) to the needed systems of the droid, such as its intneral comlink or muscles. Biomemetically designing the droid in this fashion largely allows it to emulate wookiee mechanims and performance. Arrichits do have some differences from wookiees and other organics though because of their artificial nature. While limited in creativity and intelligence, the Psykhe droid brain provides it with raw modularity or neural plasticity. Not only can it use different knowledge cartridges, but the brain can fluidly reorganize itself to be better at process information or coordinating physical motion. Likewise, the droids do not possess pain receptors, which allows them to keep fighting despite damages and wounds that normally kill or incapacitate an organic soldier. Aiding in this effort, the quantum fiber underlay provides additional protection to the droid that people simply don't have. While it pales to the armor inherently worn by most battle droids, this underlay makes the droids less susceptible to damage from typically weaker attacks on the battlefield, such as from shrapnel or simple melee weapons. Using Hi-Sense Enhanced Eyes with improved visual acuity in discriminating between objects as well as resolving images at further distances, along with the ability to see the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums. The use of internal comlink also means that the droids do not to need to verbally speak to communicate, allowing them to silently act together in concert without the possibility of eavesdropping. However, the Arrichit's default vocader is tuned for communication for wookiees in their traditional languages and they cannot speak basic without an additional knowledge cartridge being designated for that task. Additionally, Arrichits possess retractable phrik vibroshivs where a wookiee would have their retractable claws. This allows Arrichits to emulate traditional wookiee fighting and climbing techniques.
Physical Performance: To the typical onlooker, Arrichits appear to have the same physical performance as a wookiee warrior in peak physical condition. The biofiber-rybcoarse muscles are not subject to the typical lactic acid cycle within the body, and thus have a higher endurance. Much like the servo-motors found on other droids, the main limiting endurance factor is the amount of power available to the droid. The artificial muscles and Soma Droid Chassis provide the Arrichit with sufficient strength, endurance, and grace to perform at the capability of an exceptional wookiee athlete. An Arrichit can easily perform such tasks as long marches, sudden sprints, or vertical obstacle climbing. As their endurance and frame is largely the result of its artificial construction, the droids can also carry and move around slightly more weight than many of their organic counterparts without any loss in physical performance. This may practically manifest itself as carrying an extra weapon, heavier armor, or more ammunition.
Weapons: Unlike most battle droids, the Arrichit only comes with melee weapons installed in the form of retractable phrik vibroshivs that take the place of a wookiee's natural claws. This makes Arrichits particularly dangerous in close quarters, especially combined with their brute strength and knowlege of Wrruushi. While these skills make Arrichits well-suited for low-level combat as security troops and against wild beasts such as those dominate the lower levels of Kashyyyk, it does not lend them particularly good performance against the average ranged combatant. To that end, many Arrichits are equipped with traditional ranged wookiee weapons such as the bowcaster or Kashyyyk long-gun. However, it's not uncommon to see another knowledge cartridge specifically added to allow them to use other weapons or vehicles.
Defenses: Like most organic soldiers, the most inherent physical defense of an Arrichit is simply not getting hit, relying on their size and natural grace to avoid enemy fire or seek cover and/or concealment. However, they do possess a layer of quantum fiber which provides minor protection against many common threats such as shrapnel, primitive weapons, and glancing weapon strikes. Arrichitss often rely on wearing pieces of armor originally designed for wear for wookiees to provide them with better defense. While these inherent defenses are weaker than the physical defenses of many battledroids, Arrichits are conversely more resistant to the common weakpoints typical of many battledroids. Its chassis and droid brain designs combined with its use of artificial muscles makes it grossly unaffected by area of effect ion and EMP strikes. The use of an organoform circuitry and bio-computer based droid brain also make it unaffected by droid restraining bolts and significantly harder to hack as well as a matter of principle. This does not mean that the droid is immune to such attacks, but it is significantly harder to damage or destroy it through such means.
