RA-7 Death Star Droid

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Arakyd Industries` only entry into the personal-assiastant market was the RA-7 droid which was a substandard Imperial model with a disappointing processor and a drab personality, but the Galactic Empire praised the droid. They purchased the entire production line and distrubitated them to its highest ranking officers like party favors. Most of the recipents were not even suspious of the Empire`s gift, but that was there fault because the droids replaced the Imperial spies for the Imperial Security Bureau.

This purpose explained the low intellegence and cheep construction of the droids black-lacquered body. While the all of Arakyd`s industry rivals crowed over their misstep, and Industrial Automaton`s CEO Julynn Kentas said, in a MechTech Illustrated interview that there militaristic rival had "a lot to learn about pleasing the public." Arakyd turned out thousands of the droids that matched the Empire`s specs perfectly. The RA-7 units were rarely assigned any type of complecated task becaus of their general incompetence, but the Imperial recipents didn`t dare return them for fear of offending their superiors. The droids would become forgotten and ignored, and this was great for the spies because they would just sit back and let the droids record their masters` conversations and every move. The droid was equipped with a clandestine documentation/surveillance system that was tucked away inside the droid`s insectoid skull, and was surrounded by multiple layers of bengin congnitive circuitry.

The sensor bafflers disguised as soldering welds prevented the surveillance unit from showing up on routine scans. The droids audio pickups recorded whispered conversations, and its photoreceptors operated under low-light conditions as they captured panoramic images, and extrapolated dialogue through lip-reading. The droids made periodic dumps of their incriminating data to Imperial Security Bureau agents using its encrypted frequiencies on standard comm units, and if these recordings it beamed revealed corruption, profiteering, or insufficent loyalty to Emperor Palpatine the droids` masters` often left abruptly on "business trips" for the Imperial Capital World of Coruscant and few ever returned from their "business trips."

After a while it began to circulate among naval admirals that their bug-eyed survants might be concealing a sinister secret, and simply to dismantle the droid would be an admission of guilt, so many of the droids masters` tried to "lose` the units on shore leave. Many times the droids that were repaired and remodeled were stolen by petty thieves during these intentional incidents, are occasionally encountered in swap meets and droid auctions.

The droids nickname of the "Death Star Droid" came from the fact that there were so many high-level Imperial officals assigned to the first Death Star that the hallways were crowded with these RA-7`s. When the Rebel Alliance blew up the first Death Star at the Battle of Yavin, most of the RA-7 line went up with it.

Technische Daten Produktion: Unbekannt Bezeichnung: RA-7 "Death Star Droid" Hersteller: Arakyd Industries Preis: Unbekannt