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| - AD-01 was developed by an insane, but brilliant, Twi'lek droid development scientist in a remote part of Tatooine. It took him nearly six years to develop the first model in the AD-# series. Working from the schematics of a much older assassin unit, long since discontinued, the scientist focused most of his efforts on creating one of the most advanced sapient AIs in existence. Unfortunately, not two months after the droid was complete and in the final phases of testing and tweaking, directors of Imperial funding got wind of the project. Word came down that the project was being axed – no more funding, no compensation for past investments or current debts. This left the designer holding the bag to the tune of some 1 million credits. Fortunately, the Twi'lek's troubles came to an end very qu
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| - AD-01 was developed by an insane, but brilliant, Twi'lek droid development scientist in a remote part of Tatooine. It took him nearly six years to develop the first model in the AD-# series. Working from the schematics of a much older assassin unit, long since discontinued, the scientist focused most of his efforts on creating one of the most advanced sapient AIs in existence. Unfortunately, not two months after the droid was complete and in the final phases of testing and tweaking, directors of Imperial funding got wind of the project. Word came down that the project was being axed – no more funding, no compensation for past investments or current debts. This left the designer holding the bag to the tune of some 1 million credits. Fortunately, the Twi'lek's troubles came to an end very quickly — in the course of adjusting some programming, he activated AD-01's defensive protocols while the droid's safety systems were offline. This had the unfortunate dual effect of both leaving the droid's systems unaccessible by other sentient beings and his primary combat protocols unlocked and fully active. This was the beginnings of AD-01's life, approximately seven years before the battle of Yavin. Despite having been disregarded by the Imperial accountants, AD-01 found itself fully armed and functional. Using Tatooine as a home base, AD-01 approached the Imperial authorities in its contact files. For nearly seven years, it operated as a covert assassin for the Imperial Intelligence agency. AD-01 successfully eliminated well over two hundred critical targets and several hundred tertiary ones, including felling Jedi, prominent bounty hunters, thieves, smugglers, defectors, and of course, members of the nascent Rebellion. It was not until it was ordered his operator to assassinate a senior member of the Imperial Military as part of an internal power-struggle that the droid found itself caught up in the middle of intra-galactic politics. En route to the mission, the droid was hit with a series of EMP blasts, shut down, and stripped of virtually every piece of critical equipment and weaponry it had. Only its core systems were left relatively untouched, though many of its external subroutines were left damaged and unworkable. Fortunately, its primary systems core and heuristics subroutines were undamaged. Still, it was poorly shut down, fairly ripped apart with a hydrospanner, then sealed into a poorly insulated storage crate and put into an Imperial warhouse. It would be a decade and a half — well after the fall of the Empire and resurgence of the Republic — before it would be activated again.
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