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Unit Name: M16-HK53
Credits
Consolidation Thread: 30-33 Tier Needs 30+ Posts
Unit Description:
M16-HK53 droids feature a humanoid design with a bird-like head, sharp antennae, and glowing blue optics. Their frames are reinforced with Corskar armor plating in striking hues of orange, yellow, and metallic black. Built for agility, they utilize digitigrade legs, clawed feet, and integrated heel-mounted jetpacks for advanced maneuverability. This unit blends lethal elegance with advanced tactical design, optimized for high-threat engagements and specialized combat scenarios.
ATTRIBUTES
1. Trained specifically to counter Force users, with mentorship derived from both Jedi and Sith combat forms and philosophy.
2. Utilizes refined protocols from an older HK unit, enhanced through recursive training cycles.
3. Functions as a protocol droid with fluency in over five million forms of communication.
Weaknesses
1. Despite hardened circuits and EMP-resistant plating, still vulnerable to concentrated EMP charges that hit the unit and not in close proximity/radius.
2. High density from its armor limits effectiveness in muddy, bog-like terrain and prevents buoyancy in water.
3. Lacks an internal communications suite, must rely on external gear (e.g., commlinks or holos) for long-range communication.
Historical Information
When a black-market auction was held in Hutt Space on Nar Shaddaa, Tha Hiracûkimit’s representatives took great interest in many rare items. But one stood above the rest a replicated memory core and protocol module set from the legendary HK droid series, long believed lost, even to Czerka Corporation. The schematics alone were priceless.
A brutal bidding war ensued, with syndicates, collectors, and corporate entities vying for control. Tha Hiracûkimit ultimately liquidated a vast portion of its assets to secure the relic. What followed was the beginning of an obsessive pursuit: the creation of a next generation HK unit. Legal and patent battles with Czerka arose almost immediately, and a compromise was reached a perpetual cut of all sales would be granted to Czerka in exchange for development rights.
As the corporation bled liquidity, and the chassis design remained incomplete, research and development efforts intensified. Tha Hiracûkimit engineered a proprietary alloy, Corskar, to provide durability and an edge against lightsaber assailants. To train the AI, they employed recursive neural architectures spawning thousands of child networks, each trained in isolated batches.
Different mentors were assigned to each training cluster. Jedi instructors taught defense, counters, and Force resilient tactics. Sith focused on aggressive forms, precision strikes, and psychological warfare. Echani specialists brought fluid motion, intuition based prediction, and unarmed combat mastery. Mandalorians were recruited to instill battlefield pragmatism, tactical adaptability, and mastery of ranged weaponry, demolitions, and close-quarters brutality. Each group imprinted its doctrine onto its respective AI batch.
Through recursive training cycles, these child models were evaluated, pruned, and reintegrated into the evolving central core. The process was iterative a digital crucible where trial and failure refined skill and strategy. Over time, the AI’s sentience emerged not from raw code but from a blend of diverse martial philosophies, compressed into a single adaptive intelligence.
After dozens of iterations, Chassis Model 16 paired with Sentience Version 53 became the breakthrough the first fully realized M16-HK53 unit. A war machine forged from thousands of simulations, trained by masters of the Force, Echani tacticians, and Mandalorian warriors alike. It was time to begin production.
Unit Name: M16-HK53
Credits
Consolidation Thread: 30-33 Tier Needs 30+ Posts
Unit Description:
M16-HK53 droids feature a humanoid design with a bird-like head, sharp antennae, and glowing blue optics. Their frames are reinforced with Corskar armor plating in striking hues of orange, yellow, and metallic black. Built for agility, they utilize digitigrade legs, clawed feet, and integrated heel-mounted jetpacks for advanced maneuverability. This unit blends lethal elegance with advanced tactical design, optimized for high-threat engagements and specialized combat scenarios.
ATTRIBUTES
- Armour: Extreme
- Gear:
- Corskar Armor Plating
- Jetpack on the heels of each leg
- Magno-grip Heels
- Gear:
- Speed: Very High
- Melee: Extreme
- Weaponry:
- 1 Cortosis weave Vibroblade
- 4 Cortosis weave Vibrodaggers *two integrated into the arm chassis, two handheld*
- Weaponry:
- Ranged: Extreme
- Weaponry:
- Flamethrower
- VL 10 ST Sniper Rifle with Repeating Mode
- VL 9 ST Slug Thrower Rifle slug-based ammunition
- EMP Grenades
- Smoke missile dart integrated into chassis for evasion and maneuvering
- Thermal Detonators
- Weaponry:
- Morale: Extreme
- Size: Extreme
- Recruitment & Replenishment:
- Mass produced by a Orondia Engineering,a subsidiary of Tha Hiracûkimit
- Recruitment & Replenishment:
1. Trained specifically to counter Force users, with mentorship derived from both Jedi and Sith combat forms and philosophy.
2. Utilizes refined protocols from an older HK unit, enhanced through recursive training cycles.
3. Functions as a protocol droid with fluency in over five million forms of communication.
Weaknesses
1. Despite hardened circuits and EMP-resistant plating, still vulnerable to concentrated EMP charges that hit the unit and not in close proximity/radius.
2. High density from its armor limits effectiveness in muddy, bog-like terrain and prevents buoyancy in water.
3. Lacks an internal communications suite, must rely on external gear (e.g., commlinks or holos) for long-range communication.
Historical Information
When a black-market auction was held in Hutt Space on Nar Shaddaa, Tha Hiracûkimit’s representatives took great interest in many rare items. But one stood above the rest a replicated memory core and protocol module set from the legendary HK droid series, long believed lost, even to Czerka Corporation. The schematics alone were priceless.
A brutal bidding war ensued, with syndicates, collectors, and corporate entities vying for control. Tha Hiracûkimit ultimately liquidated a vast portion of its assets to secure the relic. What followed was the beginning of an obsessive pursuit: the creation of a next generation HK unit. Legal and patent battles with Czerka arose almost immediately, and a compromise was reached a perpetual cut of all sales would be granted to Czerka in exchange for development rights.
As the corporation bled liquidity, and the chassis design remained incomplete, research and development efforts intensified. Tha Hiracûkimit engineered a proprietary alloy, Corskar, to provide durability and an edge against lightsaber assailants. To train the AI, they employed recursive neural architectures spawning thousands of child networks, each trained in isolated batches.
Different mentors were assigned to each training cluster. Jedi instructors taught defense, counters, and Force resilient tactics. Sith focused on aggressive forms, precision strikes, and psychological warfare. Echani specialists brought fluid motion, intuition based prediction, and unarmed combat mastery. Mandalorians were recruited to instill battlefield pragmatism, tactical adaptability, and mastery of ranged weaponry, demolitions, and close-quarters brutality. Each group imprinted its doctrine onto its respective AI batch.
Through recursive training cycles, these child models were evaluated, pruned, and reintegrated into the evolving central core. The process was iterative a digital crucible where trial and failure refined skill and strategy. Over time, the AI’s sentience emerged not from raw code but from a blend of diverse martial philosophies, compressed into a single adaptive intelligence.
After dozens of iterations, Chassis Model 16 paired with Sentience Version 53 became the breakthrough the first fully realized M16-HK53 unit. A war machine forged from thousands of simulations, trained by masters of the Force, Echani tacticians, and Mandalorian warriors alike. It was time to begin production.
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