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Thread: What If... A Revisionist Look at Publish 7

MasadoBanzai
Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:39 am
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Since Publish 7 went live, I feel like I've spent more time thinking about what I wish SOE had given us for combat droids than I have in building what we got. In order to get it out of my system and move on, I thought I'd post my idea of what the "Droid Invasion" should have brought to the table.


This is what I would have liked to see in place of R-series "blastromechs" and LE "despair" droids. I've sketched out some basic ideas for the schematic components (I did say that I had spent a lot of time thinking about this -- undoubtedly too much time...) Both chassis are intended to be CL13, with the battle droid being equivalent to an advanced R3 combat droid and the droideka being equivalent to the advanced LE repair droid. I'd be interested in any comments from more seasoned droid engineers (there are still some left, I think) as to how the resources and components could be tweaked to improve the balance of the designs, or something completely different if you have your own ideas.

1) Basic Battle Droid ("Roger-Roger") (requires Master Droid Engineer):



  • Frame Reinforcement - 190 duralloy steel;

  • Body Shell - 150 chemical;

  • Shielding and Insulation - 110 extrusive ore;

  • Primary Frame - 1 x Advanced Droid Frame Unit;

  • Droid Brain - 2 x identical Advanced Droid Brain Unit;

  • Manipulator Arms - 1 x Manipulator Arm Package Set;

  • Motivator - 1 x Advanced Droid Motive System;

  • Navigation Sensor Suite - 1 x Droid Sensor System;

  • Combat Sensor Suite - 1 x Micro Sensor Suite;

  • Droid Personality Chip (optional) - 1 x Base Droid Personality Chip;

  • Droid Module Packages - 2 x Combat Capable Module Socket Cluster;

  • Droid Defensive Module Sockets- 2 x Droid Defensive Module Harness.

Max HAM: 1700 (as per current Adv R3)
Max Combat Rating: 600 (as per current Adv R3)


Notes: It should have the same command for switching between ranged and melee attack modes as the current R-series droids. In ranged mode, it should appear to be equipped with a generic carbine or rifle.


2) Military Base Droid Personality Chip (requires Master Droid Engineer)



  • 13 units of copper;

  • 6 units of siliclastic ore;

  • 2 x electronics GP module;

  • 3 x electronics memory module.

Notes:Responses/chatter as appropriate for atmosphere, such as "Roger Roger!"See the thread started by Barfalomue (NO COMBAT ASTROMECHS, GIVE US CL-10 ROGER-ROGER DROIDS!) for some good inspiration.


3) Basic Droideka (requires Master Droid Blueprints):



  • Frame Reinforcement - 190 steel;

  • Body Shell - 150 chemical;

  • Shielding and Insulation - 110 low-grade ore;

  • Primary Frame - 1 x Advanced Droid Frame Unit;

  • Droid Brain - 2 x identical Droid Brain;

  • Manipulator Arms - 1 x Manipulator Arm;

  • Motivator - 1 x Advanced Droid Motive System;

  • Navigation Sensor Suite - 1 x Droid Sensor Suite;

  • Combat Sensor Suite - 1 x Micro Sensor Suite;

  • Droid Module Package - 1 x Combat-Capable Socket Cluster;

  • Droid Defensive Module Socket - 1 x Droid Defensive Module Harness.

Max HAM: 2200 (as per current Adv LE Repair)
Max Combat Rating: 330 (as per current Adv LE Repair)


Something like this seems, to me, as if it would have been fairly easy to implement. The combat balance would be the same as what we did get. The art assets pretty much exist, since we have always had droidekas on Lok, and we are supposed to be seeing battle droids in the Corellian Corvette mini-publish. Most importantly, I think both DEs and DE customers would have had fun with battle droids and droidekas, even if they were only CL13. Too bad that we'll likely never know about that for sure, though.




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Masado Banzai
Chief Designer
RanCorp Droidworks, Engineering and Shipyard
Mos Arcus, Tatooine, Kettemoor
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