Republic Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
[SIZE=11pt]OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Intent: To torture my Jedi character with… an interesting partner in “crime.”[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Image Credit: [/SIZE]Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded - B1 Battle Droid (Canon Article.) - Resized and Mirrored by Me via Imgur.
- [SIZE=11pt]Role: Provocative Sidekick, and Inept Sparring Partner.[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Links: [/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]B1 Battle Droid.[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Age:[/SIZE][SIZE=11pt] Unknown (True Age.) - Ten Years (Overhaul and Reactivation.) [/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Model: B1 Battle Droid.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Product Line: B-Series Battle Droid.[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Appearance: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Mass: 65 Kilograms.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Gender: Masculine Programming, with Seduction Protocols.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Plating Colour: Burnt Umber and Sand. (Depends on the Replacement parts.)[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Photoreceptor Hue: Blazing Yellow, with hints of Digital ‘Smoulder.’[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Much like the droids that once served the ancient Confederacy, and it’s revived inheritor, K4S-P3R is a B1 Battle Droid that stands nearly two meters tall and weighs roughly around sixty-five kilograms. His outer casing, though unknowingly repaired and overhauled throughout the ages, retained the burnt umber enamel coating as his various owners had loving recreated the pigment and reapplied it whenever it started to fade. From there? His appearance changes from day to day, as either his “Master” accidentally severs a limb during their sparring sessions, or the Droid himself wishes to adorn his frame in snazzy threads. While this did little to disguise his visage, that of a desiccated Nemodian corpse, Kasper strived to always look his best whenever he wasn’t being used as a practice dummy. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]SOCIAL INFORMATION[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Name: K4S-P3R.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Rank(s): Sidekick.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Title(s): The Annoying (Given), The Provocative (Given), The Seductive (Personal Title), The Suave (Personal Title), and various others that are too numerous to account for, as well as accurately document - as they change to benefit the situation.[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Loyalties:[/SIZE][SIZE=11pt] Everything Bipedal, and Arcanus Sunstrider - (Only because his programming tells him to be loyal.)[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=11pt]Notable Possessions: [/SIZE][SIZE=11pt]Heuristic Processor (Integrated in his Droid Brain.), an [/SIZE]Upgraded Logic Module and Databank, Updated Vocabulator, with a Self-Inflated Ego.
[SIZE=11pt]Combat Function: As every standard B1 battle Droid was purpose-built for combat, Kasper, as a Fourth Degree droid, is no different from his ancient -- or newly created kin. He was more than capable of operating a blaster, be it a pistol or a rifle, and has a rudimentary grasp on hand to hand combat with various melee weapons. Though this has been expanded upon by being, quite literally, his “Masters” punching bag and having the first-hand opportunity to study the Jedi’s martial prowess -- Kasper suffers from his overhauled servos being unable to match his “Masters” speed and agility when he goes all out. However, despite his chassis’ shortcomings, the B1 Droid was able to offer some measure of challenge to his sparring partner due to the accumulated knowledge and unpredictability that his program allowed for. In addition, his forged metallic plating made it painful for any organic that struck his husk without augmentation, so more often than not, his “Master” would end up breaking a digit or two.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]HISTORICAL INFORMATION[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Long before Kasper had ever come to know his current “Master,” let alone become one of his possessions, the droid served on the front lines of the Clone Wars as a Confederate battle droid designed and built to oppose the tyranny of the Galactic Republic. With blaster in hand, Kasper - under the unit designation of K4S-P3R back then - had fought across many battlefields and had seen things that beggared belief. If his accounts are to be believed, he was able to somehow overpower a Jedi Padawan in single combat and was selected to be upgraded at a later date to become a part of the infamous General Grievous’ magnaguard retinue. However, before the battle droid was able to be exonerated for his achievements, the war had abruptly ended with the death of many Confederate leaders over their hidden facility on Mustafar. It was a story that had impressed many, but when it was told to the man that Kasper had been programmed to like, the Jedi knew that the entire story was nothing more than a lie. Some petty fabrication to enhance his reviled seduction techniques to entice potential suitors with stories of the past, and knowledge once thought long forgotten.
The truth was, Kasper, didn’t know what his life was like before his first “Master” had reactivated him in some backwater fabrication shed on Nar Shaddaa. He had no recollection of what happened before his photoreceptors flickered to life, or why he shared the same body as the ancient battle droids -- or those of their confederate inheritors. To Kasper, all that he could remember was the data that he was initially programmed with, and even that by his standards now was rudimentary in comparison. He was gifted with the most basic of combat subroutines and wasn’t able to do anything more than what he was commanded too. It was, by far, the worst period of time that ever occurred in his entire activation cycle. Who actually enjoyed being a mindless automaton that served little purpose outside of the reason they were designed for in the beginning? Nevertheless, Kasper’s first years of artificial life had been spent in service to another, some rich socialite that managed to get his hand on an ancient relic and brought it up to modern overhaul standards, acting in whatever manner the man had seen fit. His duties ranged from forcibly participating in spectator sports, where he’d often get dismembered by various combat droids, or assisting the sanitation droids with their work around their first master’s house.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]It was within that socialite’s care, after he had managed to win a gladiatorial match by sheer luck rather than skill, that Kasper was upgraded with a new positronic matrix that came equipped with heuristic processors and a more expansive databank. This gave K4S-P3R an almost childlike personality, as the adaptive processors allowed the droid to expand past its already established protocols and swell its databanks with experiences. Essentially, learning as an organic would, by the collection of experiences and enacting them. While there were severe limitations in what the droid could learn, and how it went about carrying them out, it greatly pleased Kasper’s first master when the droid began to develop a personality -- more so than what was already programmed in the first place. That changed over time, of course, as the organic creature feared what he had done. As K4S-P3R slowly morphed into a clone of himself and acted in a similar manner -- much to the chagrin of his potential mates. There was even a period of time where Kasper’s monotonous voice had matched the same resonance as his first master’s, which caused nothing but problems whenever there was business to be done.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]So, as one can imagine, Kasper had soon found himself on the auction block where he was picked up by his second master -- who turned out to be some nameless pirate that plagued the Mara-Perlemian Trade Route with his supposedly notorious crew. It turned out that the dread pirate captain had wanted to add some muscle to his crew, and had ended up purchasing the battle droid on a whim. One that had soon paid off, as Kasper was able to employ his talents as a combat droid and showcase everything that he had learned from his previous owner. These abilities, both in combat and in the social arts, were refined by the pirates -- until they had raided the wrong transport and found themselves arrested by a Jedi seeking passage along the Trade Route. He was momentarily deactivated and impounded as evidence due to the modifications in his droid brain, and its uncanny ability to store processed data. That period of silence, ended when the Jedi that he had originally sought to swindle and intimidate, had managed to secure his release from the evidence locker; so long as he became the Jedi’s companion. Why had that man sought to make a B1 Battle Droid his partner in crime, let alone bother with something that would slow him down? [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Kasper could fathom the reason why, nor did he get an answer when he probed his “Master” with incessant queries. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=11pt]Now a beloved possession of the Jedi Master, Kasper seeks to figure out why he was rescued from that evidence locker and relish the man’s reactions everytime he tries to seduce some poor bipedal creature. As his “Master” had taken a vow of celibacy and was uncomfortable in any romantic situation, the Droid constantly seeks to toss his companion into those positions as both a form of testing the Jedi’s patience and causing his sparks to experience the satisfaction of his deeds. [/SIZE]
