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- Intent: To submit a standard heavy infantry unit for Mechanicum forces, as well as an auxiliary super battle droid model for CIS use.
- Image Source: Battlestar Galactica
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- Manufacturer: Confederacy of Independent Systems | The Mechanicum
- Affiliation: (x) The Mechanicum, (x) Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Model: Centurion-series Super Battle Droid
Production: Minor
- Modularity: Yes; forearms swappable for different primary weapons.
- Material: Duranium, Duravlex, Acertron, Droid Componentry
- Classification: Fourth Degree
- Weight: 120 kg
- Height: 2.5 meters
- Movement: Bipedal
- Armaments:
Forearm Mounted Plasma Repeaters or Rocket Launcher
[*]Misc. Equipment:
- Central Control Uplink: While each Centurion model is designed with complete autonomy, they are nevertheless capable of syncing with any Mechanicum or CIS designed central control computer for realtime combat intelligence and to enhance their own tactical subroutines.
- Internal Energy Drum: The Centurion comes fully equipped with its own expanded power cell storage tank, allowing it to fight uninterrupted with its heavy repeater for a more extended period before recharging. On rocket variants, this tank is often removed in favor of an additional rack of ordinance.
- Liberated Motivators: All Centurion models are given a choice to serve. Instead of rigidly obeying their programming directives, Mechanicum battle droids operate more as indentured soldiers serving out decades long tours of duty. At the end of their contract, it is expected that they will be elevated in their own society as war heroes.
- Heavy Assault: Centurions are produced in more limited numbers than their Crusader cousins, intended to operate in mixed units as heavy weapon specialists and force multipliers. Their standard issue plasma repeaters are deadly anti-personnel weapons, and an optional rocket launcher mounting can transform one of these super battle droids into a mobile armor buster.
- EMP/Ion Vulnerability: Like all droids, Centurions are acutely vulnerable to ion discharges and other electromagnetic fields. While some anti-ion mesh over critical systems protects from indirect exposure, a direct blow from an ion weapon would still inflict serious harm.
- Combat Reflexes: Mechanicum super battle droids are combat support specialists. As a result, they lack the agility and heuristic analysis of their more diminutive cousins. A Centurion's field of vision is small, and there are several weak joints exposed throughout its rear chassis. All of these factors combine to make the super battle droid ill suited for less straightforward operations.
Like their manufacturers, Centurions are among the most atypical combat models currently in service across the entire galaxy. Mechanicum droid production is self governed and functions more like spawning pools for the machine cult than a simple assembly line. With each batch there are new protocols, minute tweaks to their personality matrices.
Once they are activated, all Centurions are given the option to forego military service, and while their motivators are designed to be highly amenable to such a career path, there are the enterprising few who after reviewing their options elect to claim conscientious objector status and try their hand at private security work.
For the vast majority however, Mechanicum super battle droids are assigned almost exclusively to defend their borders or function as auxiliary units for the Confederate Defense Force. On the rare occasion a third party takes possession, these droids are never sold outright but leased for decades long contracts, with a promissory note to replace a buyer's remaining troopers with the latest models at the renewal of such an accord. After serving their "tours of duty", Centurions are elevated within Mechanicum society and even given a voice in administration.
The least unusual thing about these droids are their actual design. Bipedal and vaguely humanoid, Centurions are heavily armored and function similarly to a super battle droid. Programmed to wield exotic weaponry forged by the cult's most innovative enginseers, the average Centurion super battle droid is equipped with dual plasma repeaters, although on some models one of these repeaters may be swapped out for a rocket launcher.
