B1 Battle Droid

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B1 BATTLE DROID​

Affiliation:
Formerly Confederacy of Independent Systems

Manufacturer:
Baktoid Combat Automata

Class:
Battle Droid

Locomotion:
Legged, two legs Power Supply:
Rechargeable power cell, 72 hour duration

Sensors:
2x photoreceptors
2x audio sensors

Size:
1,93 meters

Composition:
Duraplast and durasteel plating

Tools and Equipment:

• B1 units don't come with integrated functions, but they can be modified

DESCRIPTION​

By now an extremely rare sight, B1 battle droids stood 1.93 meters tall and were humanoid in form. Their long, elongated heads atop tall, slender necks were designed in imitation of their builders at Baktoid's Geonosian foundries. Superstitious Neimoidians were known to spread the rumor that B1 battle droids' heads were designed to imitate the shape of a Neimoidian's withered skull after death, and many species found the B1's appearance disturbing.

Some B1 units, designated the OOM-series, were given expanded programming and color-coded according to function, such as commander or security. Some were painted with different colors to blend into a certain environment, such as the reddish-colored B1 droids manufactured on Geonosis. B1s were usually slaved to a central control mainframe located on a remote starship or another well-defended facility. However, this could lead to massive failure if the central control mainframe was destroyed, such as during the Battle of Naboo, in which Anakin Skywalker destroyed the Droid Control Ship. The monumental defeat at Naboo spurred interest in independent battle droids, and this technique gained ground following the battle and during the Clone Wars.

The electromagnets that kept their limbs attached could malfunction. During the Clone Wars, Galactic Republic clone troopers learned to aim at the hips, torsos, and arm joints of the B1s to quickly destroy them. But a head shot was the only decisive way to disable a droid. They didn't need arms, legs or even bodies to pass intel to central command.

B1s were designed for cheap mass-production. As a result, they were very flimsy and vulnerable, but were capable of swarming an enemy with their hugely superior numbers. Other models, like the droideka, B2 super battle droid, grapple droid, and B1-A air battle droid, were more expensive and as a result less widely used but better soldiers.

Battle droids used E-5 blaster rifles, SE-14 blaster pistols, and thermal detonators in combat.[6] They spoke in a high-pitched monotone. The voice varied between units around the time of the Battle of Naboo, and at some point during the Clone Wars their voices were uniformly changed to a more high-pitched version.

LEGALITY​

Restricted. Despite their exceptional rarity, they're still battle droids, so to possess one a person needs to have special permissions.

INTENT​

Like with the B2 and BX models, I thought it could be possible to still find droids of this type, so I gave the writeup to give others the chance to either create a character with these droids, or make tech plots to obtain them.

ADVANCED TECH​

YES. Due to their exceptional rarity, a plot is needed to retrieve one or more of these droids. For one droid, a 2 or 3 thread tech plot would work.

 

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Archiving this, as I prefer to have a member of staff responsible for "tentpole" technologies such as this.