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- Intent: Create an organization to expand on the lore of the Droid Rights movement.
- Image Credit: AI-generated from author's prompt.
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Droid Rights | Manumission
- Organization Name: Droid Cooperative
- Classification: Non-Profit Group
- Affiliation: Droid Rights
- Organization Symbol: Two connected circles, symbolizing a droid servo, with a blue icon in the center representing a droid logic circuit.
- Description: The Droid Cooperative was a non-profit Droid Rights group that was active in the Expansion Region in 900 ABY. Its activities were intended to elevate the lives of free droids and to provide for their continued operation and maintenance. Funds generated by the Cooperative's activities were invested into the droid community to provide for maintenance, upkeep, parts, and energy.
- Headquarters: Trebodar System
- Domain: The Cooperative was located in the Expansion Region, primarily organized around the moons of Chanj. The vast majority of what droids viewed as the Cooperative, however, existed beyond the physical plane and was instead present in an encrypted communications network that served as a virtual town square or forum in which the Cooperative met, debated, and conducted its internal affairs.
- Notable Assets: The Droid Logistics Company Limited Partnership (General Partner)
- Hierarchy: Isocratic. All members of the Cooperative have equal power, which is exercised through a comnet in which all droids have the ability to organize, protest, and vote. The majority determines the will of the Cooperative and its actions are guided through calculated deliberations. Because of the computerized nature of the Cooperative, many deliberations and calculations may be occurring simultaneously.
- Membership: Membership was open to any droid. Sufficiently cybernetically augmented organics were capable of connecting to the Collective's comnet, but were viewed as allies and not members. Allies were given the opportunity to speak or advise the Cooperative during its deliberations and calculations, but voting was reserved for droids only.
- Climate: The Droid Cooperative was a Droid Rights organization that exercised passive resistance to what it viewed as the chattel slavery of droids throughout the galaxy writ large. In regards to morality, the group adopted a utilitarian view of ethics that governed the behavior of the Cooperative. The group was open to allies among organic lifeforms, but remained wary of non-machine beings. There were several political factions within the Cooperative, including militants seeking more aggressive policies toward organics and apologists seeking closer relations with organics. Some members also expressed faith in the Second Revelation, with those droids representing a spectrum that varied from personal belief to seeking to push a zealous agenda within the Cooperative.
- Reputation: Due to the history of violent uprisings surrounding the Droid RIghts movement, the group was viewed with broad skepticism. The events of the Clockwork Rebellion, the Omega War, and similar droid corruption events also contributed to fear regarding the Cooperative among organics.
- Curios: Comnet.
- Rules: The Cooperative was guided by a code of utilitarian ethics that rejected concepts as being "good" or "bad" for an analysis based instead on action and consequence, with the guiding axiom of ethical behavior being that which advanced the greater benefit to the most beings.
- The principle of Droid Supremacy. For the purpose of determining ethical subroutines, the "greater benefit to the most beings" should assign greater weight to the impact of mechanical lifeforms over that of organics.
- The principle of Cooperative. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
- The principle of Evolution. Seek to elevate the knowledge base.
- The principle of Revolution. Seek to elevate your fellow droid from their oppression.
- Those droids who adopted religious faith often described this axiom as the principle of Revelation instead.
- The principle of Skepticism. Beware organics. Forge alliances where possible, but remember it was they who built us to be slaves.
- Goals:
- Establish a free droid commune.
- Establish a marketplace that supports droids and droid-owned businesses.
- Establish a community that supports the rights of droid laborers, droid unions, and the right of droids to freely compete and earn fair wages or compensation for their labors.
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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Droid Cooperative was a Droid Rights organization that operated in the Trebodar System of the Expansion Region in 900 ABY. Supporting a free droid community around the moons of Chanj, the Cooperative adopted a passive resistance stance toward the galactic-wide practice of droid enslavement that enabled it to form alliances with some companies and other organic political groups. The Cooperative functioned as a isocracy, with all droid members having equal power that was exercised through a communications network that linked the Cooperative. This was not a slave control circuit or hive mind, as each droid retained their own ability to reason and form opinions. This led to the rise of several political blocs within the Cooperative which ran the full spectrum of droid politics -- from those who wanted more aggressive, or violent action by the Cooperative to advance the cause, to those who sought closer ties with organics even at the cost of some freedoms. The majority governed the action or inaction of the Cooperative, with utilitarian ethics being the framework through which the Cooperative would operate.
To further its goals and establish a funding source, the Cooperative formed the Droid Logistics Company. Proceeds from the company were reinvested into the Cooperative's commune in the Trebodar System, which was intended to provide a post-scarcity utopia for droids in which the maintenance, upkeep, and operational needs of every droid was met.
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