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Intent: To create a search and rescue medical droid for use in combat situations.
Development Thread: None unless asked for.
Manufacturer: Eshan Industrial Corporation
Model: EMU-1 Mantis
Affiliation: Eshan Industrial Corporation Clients
Modularity: None
Production: Mass
Material: Desh/Terenthium Alloy for framing. Alusteel for defensive plating.
Classification: Fourth Degree
Weight: 317 kg
Height: 5 meters
Movement: Repulsorlifts and Quadrapedal
Armaments: Two rapid fire blaster cannons, 1 Air to Ground missile defense chaff launcher.
Misc. Equipment: Advanced Search and Identify programming for determining friend or foe. Standard sensors/scanners. Standard binary communications. Standard ray shield. One medical stasis pod.
Description:
The EMU-1 incorporates the high tech analysis engines used in the EMBU droids, with the capability of a stasis pod. In essence, it's an emergency rescue vehicle that's capable of flying into hostile situations, landing, securing the area with its blaster cannons, securing its wounded cargo in the stasis pod, returning to flight, and bringing the injured person back safely to a secured location where the injured being can receive medical attention. In this sense, it acts both as a war droid and a medic droid, although its primary function will never have it seen on the front lines of a war en masse, but flittering in and out to retrieve wounded only.
The stasis pod is only capable of supporting one being at a time, and they must be human, near-human, or a species of humanoid body shape in order for the droid to be able to rescue them. The pod cannot support anything of a massive size such as the Hutts. This limits its capabilities in some situations because it may not be able to air lift a patient that need it. While the EMU-1 is sufficiently equipped to deal with personnel situations, its weapons are useless against armor and heavily armored enemies. It does have a chaff launcher to potentially defeat missiles, but it would not be able to secure an area if an armored vehicle were present, thus forcing it to abandon its directive. It is also not shielded against EMP blasts, which would effectively render it useless.
Overall, the EMU-1 Mantis is a sufficient search and rescue vehicle that should be able to manage most situations in combat or out where the rescue of wounded is a necessity.
