Scarab Droid

< Droiden

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Scarab Droid
Größe:	./.
Ausstattung:	./.
Hersteller:	Sienar Intellegence Systems
Einsatzgebiet:	Attentäterdroide
Preis:	Unbekannt

Any professional assassin knows that stealth can be more important than a potent weapon, and this was taken in to consideration with the design of the Scarab Droid. This little droid is tiny, and quiet, which allows the droid to find its target and eliminate it without even the victim ever stirring from an afternoon nap. Most of the galaxies household security systems aren`t focused enough to detect these minuscle killers, and when they are detected they are usally mistaken as harmless garden bettles. Only in the last few decades has electronic miniaturization progressed to levels where Scarab Droids would become practicle, and since covert assassins are highly illegal, the Sienar Intelligence Systems developed them in their top-secret Black Ops Laboratories.

When Sienar perfected the droids they sold the entire line under-the-table to the assassination branch of the Imperial Intellegence, and soon after many of the enemies of the Galactic Empire felt the sharp sting of the droids needle fangs and then they died shortly after. The Scarab Droids were designed and manufactured to fit in the palm of a single hand, and collectively Sienar built eighteen varieties of the scarab droid. Each of these diffrent models with diffrent configurations of its weapons and appendages, and its later generations tended to become gruesomely nasty, sporting spines, claws, and flesh-eating shredders.

The simpler Scarab Mark VI was posted as the best of the models with the best kill ratio and was the most widely produced of the models. Each of these Mark VI`s possesses a compact body with six jointed legs, and a hard head tipped with posion injectors, and these fangs are conected to a small internal reservoir that is filled with a fast-acting nerve toxin or a hallucinogenic sitmulant. One of the most nororious incidents was on Coruscant where one of Emperor Palpatine`s senatorial critics abruptly appeared on the roof of the Imperial Bank and shrieked that he was being chased by a flame-eyed, snake-tongued Rodian batwing.

Then he plunged two hundred and seventy stories to his death, and the newsnets reported his death a stress induced. These droids are equipped with special sensors to help locate their pray, these high-gain photoreceptors are keyed to work efficiently under dim lighting conditions. The droid is also equipped with heat detectors, pheromone sniffers, and biorhytem analyzers to ensure that the droid can make a positive ID on its target before it begins its work.

Each species has diffrent weak points, and the droid is programmed with them, and in the human target the weak point is the soft neck skin just above the carotid artery. To maximize secrecy these droids work best by themselves, but a swarm of these droids do have there advantages in case anything goes wrong, because even a fully alert subject will find it very diffcult to exterminate a dozen or more of the droids without suffering a fatal bite.

The cloned Emperor used the scarab droid to go after Luke Skywalker, he sent these droids to murder Luke in his quarters on New Alderaan, and only Luke`s strength in the Force and the healing powers of Vima-Da-Boda saved the Jedi Master from certain death.