Droids in the Republic of Cascadia are a new and developing technology. Cascadia has officially banned full Artificial Intelligence and Robotics until 2015. All Droids have a stick of C4 for use in case of a droid failure. A new technology is being developed to allow it to evade destruction from the effective electro-magnetic pulse, but has not been released. In total, there are about 500,000 military droids (100,000 SAD, 400,000 PAD) and 80,000 building assistant droids (BAR).