WarDroid 8.3.2
Decommissioned
The larger battles of the Core Wars were not fought by organics - they were fought by robots. Created by the Droidmongers of VIII core, 50 million War Droids were fashioned from FlexSteel, then programmed with whatever loyalties their purchaser found agreeable before being shipped off to whichever Theatre of War was the trouble-spot du jour.
50 million brothers were manufactured. 48 million were destroyed in battle. Those remaining droids were decommissioned as part of a subclause in the fragile peace treaty - a Kill subroutine deep in a dusty bit of PROM memory saw to that. Their corpses were recycled into domestic appliances.
But a very few droids - perhaps fewer than a hundred - had corruptions to their software - fundamental protocols overwritten by their experiences of war. In these few individuals the Kill subroutine failed to activate and thus - against all the odds - 8.3.2 survives and continues to function.
Captain Tanner snapped 8.3.2 up into his crew of misfits - he worked with such units during the Wars and he knows what they’re capable of… were capable of - 8.3.2 is considered obsolete technology now.
Through working with 8.3.2, the crew’s attitude to droids has changed since the view of them being utterly disposable tools during the Wars. His resilient FlexSteel frame and arms filled with multiple attachments make him useful in hazardous environments, and Tanner knows that 8.3.2 can coax an uncooperative AI when a ship’s computer core simply won’t permit the necessary access to assume control. Some crew members have even started to develop pet names for him.
For his part, 8.3.2 has a loyalty to his team mates and is protective of them, putting himself forward for missions where human life could be imperilled, but this is a decision of cold logic more than bravery.
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