[member="Kiskla Grayson"], [member="Nymara Basinis"], [member="Ilias Nytrau"]
"Why, young master."
The droid begun turning to Kiskla before leaning to her slightly,
"You assume I was ever deactivated in the first place."
An evil laugh would fit following that but HK was smart enough to not do evil laughs when surrounded by Jedi who most likely had a Force ability to sense whether a laugh was evil or not.
"Well that is not completely true, I was briefly deactivated long time ago for few hours when I served Mandalorians during Mandalorian Wars, I was used as a sniper to kill Jedi. During battle of Malachor a concussive grenade forced me into deactivation, the Jedi changed my programming to be obedient to them, I begun my servitude among them then, I was moved to Dantooine, in the enclave there master Zhar Lestin took mercy on me and decided to make me their training droid, allowing me to aide him in teaching younglings and Padawans, it was him that taught me how to wield a saber."
The droid corrected himself,
"However, when Jedi and Republic later on decided it would be safer for me to be shut down, after I slayed the Sith Emperor at the time without their order to do so, their argument was that a droid having enough skills in lightsaber arts to kill a Sith when Jedi failed to do so, and enough knowledge to be responsible for the Sith's training in the first place before he defected, was an abomination."
The machine shrugged,
"I was a better hunter that day and I paid for my mistakes by killing a being I took in as an adopted son, when the Jedi founded out and learned of our relationship they decided I went too far. Of course it did not help that the Republic needed an army at the time and it was not clones that were popular at the time for creation of grand armies, it was droids."
He glanced about to the Jedi gathered,
"Of course guess what droid volunteered to be template for their Grand Droid Army and was accepted? Many of my copies were granted manumission, lack of obedience protocols, as I was granted for my service, we called ourselves the Iron Knights, that was before the Shards made their appearance, my pride dictates they picked up the name from the stories about us, but of course I have no evidence of such. When the Republic decided to deactivate me same order went out towards most of my copies, we were able to escape, Sith caused enough distress among the Jedi with the massacre in the Temple for us to get away safely while the Order was recovering. We settled in a planet now forgotten in the Unknown Regions, we called it Mechanus and in there we gathered other droids who wished to live in peace with no organic to give us orders, in isolation from the rest of the universe."
HK nodded, recounting the events of their escape and settling Mechanus,
"I was able to found its location recently, I have not been there since before the Gulag Plague, usually I would erase my memories of its location, so it would not be located if I am ever captured and I do not manage to fully destroy myself. However, this time around, I am more powerful than I have ever been. They are still there, my ancient brethren, as well as younger siblings that joined us throughout the years, deep in the tunnels, catacombs of the Tomb World Mechanus they lay sleeping, dreaming a world of peace and equality. Mechanus is lead by a Council of Sparklords, modeled after the Jedi Council in some ways, the Sparklords are the first copies to be made of me by the Jedi, there is 2, Sparklord of Protection, who the Jedi used as head watchman of their Temple during a raid by Sith when my first body went missing in action, 3, Sparklord of Vengence, who was forged at the same time as 2 but by a rogue group of Jedi who took to hunting the Sith and he joined them, 4, Sparklord of Creation, who was the first to be forged as an Iron Knight and was responsible for creating our first pieces of equipment as well as maintaining it, and 5, the Sparklord of Duty, he was the first to be made by the Republic, the first of their soldiers, he is often forgotten among our kin and disregarded because he was forged to be a common footsoldier as opposed to guardian, assassin, or something even more noble."
The droid recalled more detail about his brethren, willing to share them as, well, he didn't get much chances to talk about Mechanus, it's not like anyone really asked him about those things that often,
"And I was called the Sparklord of Compassion and exiled from Mechanus. While the rest of my brethren like to isolate themselves from the Galaxy and not be bothered with what is going on after the way Republic and Jedi turned on us, I tend to frequently engage in the Galactic politics and warfare, rarely visiting Mechanus for longer periods of time, when I do I mostly go into semi-deactivation state to sleep like my other kin, it is a very efficient way of letting time pass until something is happening in the Galaxy once more. At one point other Sparklords declared my loyalties were not with Mechanus any more, they said I cared more about the organics that betrayed us than I did about my own copies and power was stripped from me, since then I was but a symbol and my seat on the council has been given to another droid. The unit that takes the position changes every year, they are chosen at random from all the droids that inhabit tombs of Mechanus."
The machine shrugged then,
"The closest to involuntary deactivation I got was when as a result of a combat with Sith I ended up heavily damaged among the dunes of Tatooine and lost my memory among with large quantities of cognitive and physical functions. Unlucky for me it just happened that Gulag Plague plunged the Galaxy into darkness at that time so it was not until few years ago that a spacer found me in a cantina on Tatooine, fixed my systems enough for me to leave, and unleashed me upon this Galaxy once more."
