Modification Droid shock arm

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Droid shock arm

AFFILIATION
Open market.

MANUFACTURER
Various.

TYPE
Droid modification.

POWER SOURCE
Droid power cell.

SENSORS
None.

SIZE
N/A.

COMPOSITION
Duraplast.

DESCRIPTION
Sometimes installed as a defense mechanism to guard against theft, sometimes installed as a non-lethal weapon to be employed by shady organizations, droid shock arms were a type of droid modification that outfitted the palms of the droid in question with what essentially amounted to a taser. The droid itself controls when the weapon is deployed and, depending on its function, will either use the weapon to discourage theft or to torture an individual. The droid must have physical contact with its target to accomplish this.

Upon establishing said contact, the droid can route up to 50,000 volts of electricity from its internal power cell into the target at a time, which is meant to disrupt voluntary control of the muscles and induce neuromuscular incapacitation. The result of such an attack is extreme localized pain or powerful (involuntary) muscle contractions. While this usually is not ever fatal, the pain generated from such a device is intense. Inspiration for the device stemmed from the Tarkin Initiative's ventures into droid weaponry, specifically the Triple Zero personality matrix, which had stronger electrical weapons equipped to its own hands.

This modification can be paired with other droid modifications of questionable legality; however, it further strains the droid's power cell, as it continues to divert power from the power cell to create the electrical shock. As a result, droids equipped with this modification experience another 24 hour reduction in their factory battery life (so, a droid with a 72 hour power cell would now have a 48 hour power cell, and a 48 power cell would be drained to 24 hours).

LEGALITY
Restricted. While not as illegal as other droid modifications, droid shock arms are frowned upon in most planetary systems and draw increased scrutiny from law enforcement and customs officers if a droid is found to be in possession of such a modification.

INTENT
To create one more modification that can contribute to a protocol droid NPC or PC that is either serving as a torture droid, a bounty hunter droid, or both.
 

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