To Build A Predator [Jen'ari Empire Final Task]

[Ozun Zhil]

POST I - The Quest Begins

Ozun Zhil was in his quarters when an Imperial shadow guard knocked on the door. Without a word, the Emperor's servant handed him a set of instructions for his graduation quest.

It was an order from the Emperor to design an assassin droid to be used by the Empire. It was the be submitted to his person for evaluation and was to be his confirmation of graduation to the title of apprentice.

Ozun had requested a personal workshop to be created for his use, and the shadow guard informed him that his imperial majesty had commissioned a workshop for his personal use. The shadow guard led him to this workshop on Dromund Vatsu, which was fully equipped to his liking, complete with a semi-sentient AI to assist him with his day-to-day operations.

The Emperor specified that cortheum had to be used in the droid, particularly in the conception of photoreceptors that would mean life and death for the droid. Zhil knew that the best place to get this was on Nurstin, where the Messert Mines Corporation mined it. He immediately had to go there in order to get the highest quality ore possible.

He commissioned a shuttle to leave for Nurstin immediately. Within the hour, a pilot was provided for his use. He embarked on the shuttle and met the pilot.

"Where to, sir?" the pilot asked.

"Nurstin, Airman Sergeant," Zhil replied.

WIth that, the pilot locked coordinates and jumped into hyperspace.

 

[Ozun Zhil]

POST II - En Route - Design Part I

Prior to arriving at Nurstin, Ozun saw use in actually studying the material he had been assigned to use in order to create the assassin droid requested. The shadow guard's message had mentioned cortheum, a mineral derived from corthel gas, typically used in building photoreceptors, i.e the visual sensory organ that most advanced, humanoid droids possess.

Ozun began his work designing the droid. His entire journey towards Nurstin would be devoted to that one purpose. His droid had to be so impressive as to be able to convince the best SIth Lords to take him on as an apprentice.

Beginning his design, he would immediately incorporate cortosis plate into the design, with every last square inch being covered in it. His design included a plate-like torso, red cortheum photoreceptors, a processing engine capable of computing target trajectories, battle strategies and basic repairs of its own components. It would be trained to replace its left arm with many different guns, to have a small flame-thrower attached to it and to have a right hand used as a blunt-force object.

The design would have joints similar to those of humans, with torque and pulling power delivered by a set of muscle-like penumatic tissues. This would mean it could move similar to a humanoid.

This design would take a long time. Zhil had the time. Nurstin was still several hours away.

 

[Ozun Zhil]

POST III - Arrival on Nurstin

Just as Ozun was finishing the final sketches for his droid, his pilot informed him via intercom that they had arrived at Nurstin. He left his workstation and joined the pilot in the control cabin. The descent was beautiful, the long stretching atmosphere mixed with the scenic views as they flew over the mines made for a great sight to see.

As they arrived on the planet, several sales agents from the Messert Mines Corporations immediately arrived to welcome the young Sith. They introduced themselves and proceeded to ask a reason for his arrival. He informed them that he was on a mission for the JSE to build a secret project, the details of which he could not discuss in their presence. He informed them that he required cortheum, a metal that was refined here.

The head sales agent immediately smiled and told him that they had plenty of cortheum available, in dozens of different alloys. She told him to follow him to the display center.

As they begun their tour, the sales executive told Ozun about all the various types of alloys and their specializations. She asked him what he intended to build, so she could point him towards which alloy would be best. Ozun informed her he wanted to build advanced photoreceptors for an advanced droid, one that needed extremely complex analytic abilities. She immediate showed them their highest grade cortheum, which could be diluted to create whatever variety necessary.

Ozun, pleased, would immediately purchased an entire crate of the highest-grade alloy to be brought the Dromund Vatsu to begin the creation of the first in the droid line.

With that, he ordered the crate to be loaded on his ship and ordered the Airman Sergeant to prepare to leave. Which happened.

 

[Ozun Zhil]

POST IV - To Dromund Vatsu - Design Part II

As the shuttle entered hyperspace, Ozun retreated to his work station to finish his design, with the cortheum in tow.

He would begin designing the photoreceptors, which would be stabilized to create a full image of a potential enemy. He immediately uploaded battle strategies computed by the Imperial military's intelligence bureau onto the droid. He'd then also create a learning algorithm allowing the droid to learn from the enemies it encountered, taking note of their physiology and creating a file in the droid's memory allowing it to do so.

The droid's body would also be designed. Its right arm would be an extendable blunt force object shaped like a spear. It could be extended to create a mace or a targeted stabbing object designed to cripple bone. Its left-arm would be an attachable implement for various blasters, ranging from pistols to sniper rifles. Under it would be a flamethrower implement.

All of this would be made from cortosis plate. It would make the droid extremely resistant against lightsabers, though weaker against blasters. It would also make it very quick in battle, a strength it would bank on to avoid blaster fire and be able to fight on par with lower-end force users.

The design of the head was a little harder. The head had to hold the central processing system. The system was quite large, and had to be designed in some way to minimize the size. This was very difficult, and Ozun committed to do it once he arrived on Dromund Vatsu.

He then retreated to his quarters to meditate. He'd have his training saber with him. He'd practice Mechu Deru by disassembling it and reassembling it. This would be practice for forging his own lightsaber in the future.

 

[Ozun Zhil]

Part V - Workshop Wonders - Design Part III

As Ozun arrived on the Imperial capital of Dromund Vatsu, he requested his pilot drop him off right next to his workshop. A gift from the Imperial government, it was to be where he would design and produce the line of assassin droids he was ordered to create. He was told it was equipped with everything he would ever need in the conception and construction of his graduation project.

Immediately as he entered, a warm, feminine voice welcomed him.

"Welcome, Ozun Zhil," the voice would say.

"Who am I speaking to?"

"I am OZAIA. I will be your personal assistant."

"Where are you?"

"In the computer system of the workshop. I am your AI assistant."

Ozun would smile. He'd immediately upload his already existing designs to the computer, where OZAIA would analyze them. Immediately, his assistant would edit some of them to make them more optimized for battle. This would include changing the head design to better accommodate the CPS as well as to aid balance. This computation would use advanced differential geometry to best compute the ideal shape.

Afterwards, the photoreceptors had to be designed. The high-grade cortheum alloy would allow a great number of options with the creation of the optical sensors. Ozun would try his best to create the ability to analyze bio-physical patterns to analyze the movement of opponents. This advanced sensor would allow the droid to quickly learn and analyze opponents and save their specifications in its memory.

This system would be called the Advanced Tactical Droid Fighting System and could be used on other droids in the future if necessary.

Ozun worked hard, but a lot still had to be done.

 

[Ozun Zhil]

Part VI - Finishing Touches - Design Part IV

After having finished designing the photoreceptors, Ozun needed to finish the design for the body.

It was to consist of large elements of cortosis plate, with a caterpillar like design to give maximum agility. The design was also done to minimize the amount of plate required as well as to be able to repair and replace each individual section of plate if required. This meant to Ozun could produce individual parts every time one droid was damaged.

Moreover, the flamethrower had to be designed. It was to be an important part of the droid. Ozun decided that two settings should be put on the flamethrower. One offensive, the other defensive. The first setting was designed to throw a large jet of flame in a single direction, with the option to do a sweep. It would be able to take out several opponents at once. The second setting was designed to fire a jet in a square like pattern to surprise and daze opponents. This would allow the droid time to adapt.

The flamethrower would be fed from a gas injection attached to the back of the shoulder blade. The feed tubes would run down the arm and up to the flamethrower, located on the bottom of the forearm. It was designed to be camouflaged somewhat, as a single hit to the gas canister would blow it up, sending the arm off and damaging the back of the droid.

These finishing touches put on, Ozun began to build the droid.