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HK-47 | Knights of the Old Republic | Not reserved (1/5)
Personal Journal: N/A
Contact Info:
AIM: hightechart23
Email: high (dot) tech (dot) artist (at) gmail (dot) com
Plurk: TwiceBlessed
Other Characters Played: Cade Masters
Preferred Housing: 3474 Erwin Road, male child slot
(I have permission of all residents!)
Character Name: HK-47 (I'd consider 47 to be his last name)
Character Series: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Character Age: 9
Re: HK-47 | Knights of the Old Republic | Not reserved (2/5)
In the wake of widespread destruction caused by the Mass Shadow Generator, a superweapon used during the final battle of that conflict, Revan was inspired to seek more subtle methods of defeating his enemies. HK-47 was sent throughout the galaxy on his missions and successfully assassinated countless targets whom Revan had deemed threats to galactic stability and peace.
HK-47 continued to serve Revan during the Jedi Civil War, a devastating conflict between the Sith Empire that Revan had created after his turn to the dark side, and the Galactic Republic. During this time, HK-47 helped Revan to locate the Star Forge superweapon and also assassinated beings who could potentially destabilize the galaxy, which eventually led to a mission into Mandalorian space in 3,957 BBY. While HK-47 was on this mission, Revan was captured by the Jedi after Malak turned on his master and fired a volley of turbolaser fire at the bridge of Revan's flagship.
The Jedi High Council ordered Revan's mind to be re-written, and the Sith Lord lost all the memories of his former self, including those of HK-47's existence. Meanwhile, although HK-47 succeeded in his assassination mission, his motor functions were damaged, and he ended up in the possession of a Mandalorian soldier. The Mandalorian reprogrammed and laid claim to the crippled droid, repairing him—though not particularly well in the droid's opinion—and began to use the droid to elevate his own rank by having him eliminate his superiors and clear the way for his own promotion.
HK-47 had lost much of his memory due to the damage he had received and lacked the knowledge as to where he had been created, though he believed himself to be of Systech Corporation's manufacture. Conversely, rumors circulated that his true creator was Czerka Corporation. All that remained was his affinity toward violence, although he could not recall why he had been equipped for such a purpose.
Eventually, the Mandalorian ordered HK-47 to assassinate the reigning Mandalore. HK-47 failed and was captured by his target, who reprogrammed his objectives to send the droid against his master. The Mandalorian soldier was subsequently terminated. Since HK-47 was programmed to shut down whenever his current master died, he deactivated himself after killing the Mandalorian and was sold to Bochaba the Hutt, a crime lord based on the planet Sleheyron.
HK-47 helped Bochaba to maintain his reputation as the most feared gangster on Sleheyron, terminating 322 targets in a single year before Bochaba was assassinated by his rivals. The droid shut himself down once again after learning of his master's death and was sold to a Human senator on the galactic capital of Coruscant. The Senator first assumed HK-47 to be a mere protocol droid, but one of his assistants later discovered the droid's assassination functions and asked the Senator to destroy him. The Senator instead ordered HK-47 to kill the assistant, and the droid remained with his master, helping him eliminate his political enemies. With his rivals quickly being eliminated, the Senator was on his way to being elected as the Supreme Chancellor, but things did not go as they had been planned.
The next target the Senator ordered HK-47 to kill was his own wife, who, as he had discovered, had been cheating on him. As HK-47 approached the wife and her illicit lover to terminate them both, his master suddenly regretted his order and dove between the droid and his intended victims. Having accidentally terminated his master, HK-47 had no choice but to shut down once more. The Senator's wife later sold him to a low-ranking commercial officer of Systech Corporation. At first, the officer used HK-47 as a protocol and bodyguard droid, but following his discovery of the droid's assassination protocols, the officer sent HK-47 on a mission to eliminate workers of a company that was developing a product which, if launched onto the market, would ruin the officer's career. The officer did not realize that the company was, in fact, another branch of Systech Corporation. By the time he realized his mistake, HK-47 had already terminated 104 Systech employees. HK-47 assumed that, being the only officer remaining, his master would be promoted. Instead, the officer, in dismay, attacked the droid. While doing so, the officer pierced one of HK-47's actuators with a writing utensil, resulting in an electric shock that killed him and damaged the droid's assassination protocols, again forcing the droid to deactivate himself for killing his master.
After the accident with the Systech Corporation officer, HK-47 was sold to Yuka Laka—an Ithorian droid dealer at the Anchorhead settlement on the planet Tatooine—who fitted him with a restraining bolt, further restricting the droid's memory and his protocol and assassination protocols. There, HK-47 encountered his original master, Revan, whose mind had been erased by the Dantooine Jedi Enclave Council after being injured at the hands of Darth Malak. Revan was once again trying to find the Star Forge and was looking for the Star Map, an ancient artifact located on Tatooine. This time, Revan was acting on behalf of the Jedi Council in order to locate and destroy the superweapon and save the Republic from defeat. Revan purchased the droid for his knowledge of the Sand People dialect, as he intended to negotiate with the local chieftain about ceasing attacks against Czerka Corporation personnel and could not understand the dialect himself. HK-47 eagerly accompanied Revan, as he disliked Yuka Laka, and acted as a translator when Revan met with the chieftain of the local tribe.
In keeping with his violent programming, HK-47 advocated for simply eliminating the local tribe, but Revan opted for a peaceful method and managed to gain entrance to the Sand People Enclave by using disguises taken from fallen Tusken Raiders. Revan was able to successfully reach an accord with the chieftain by trading two moisture vaporators he had bought from the Czerka outpost so that the tribe could journey farther away from the settlement and cease their constant raids. As a sign of appreciation, the chieftain gave Revan his personal gaffi stick as well as a map of the area of Tatooine where the Star Map was located. At that, HK-47 expressed his disappointment at the loss of a chance for combat against the Sand People. HK-47 was present when Revan was allowed to meet with the Sand People storyteller in return for presenting the chieftain with a krayt dragon pearl. HK-47 translated for this meeting as well, cautioning Revan against making any potentially offensive statements.
When Revan later asked HK-47 about the droid's past, he was quite taken aback to discover that the droid had, indirectly or otherwise, been the cause of death of all of his interim owners. This did not stop Revan from making multiple repairs to the droid, despite some trepidation on HK-47's part. Revan eventually restored everything but HK-47's memory core, which was too fragile to attempt to repair manually. Revan later encountered Malak for the first time since his former Sith apprentice had betrayed him.
This meeting proved to be the stimulus necessary for Revan to remember the truth about his own history. It was also the signal for HK-47's internal programming to unlock and undo the damage to his primary memory core, allowing the droid full access to his entire memory as well as his entire combat and assassination protocol package. HK-47 appeared more than satisfied to be reunited with his master, but later commented that Revan had changed since he had last served him, stating that Revan was more compassionate than before. Despite this, the droid still believed that Revan was just as capable of merciless and necessary actions when required. The droid also expressed his alleged frustration and rage at being absent during Malak's betrayal and his inability to defend Revan from Malak's treachery.
HK-47 remained with Revan until the end of the former Dark Lord's journey, following him to the Star Forge and aiding in the destruction of the superweapon as well as the defeat of Darth Malak. HK-47 was honored with Revan's other companions as a hero of the Republic and was awarded the Cross of Glory beside them. Shortly thereafter, more of Revan's memories returned, and the Jedi recalled a threat to the galaxy that he had uncovered as a Sith Lord. HK-47 was left behind with Revan's wife, Bastila Shan when he departed for the Unknown Regions. Revan also had HK-47's memory of the past four years erased so that the droid would not discover his destination. For a short time, Shan left HK-47 with the Jedi Council on Coruscant, hoping his murderous instincts might be calmed.
However, HK-47 was unwilling to stay and wait for his master to return, and when Bastila refused to tell the droid where Revan had gone, HK-47 left to find him. During the droid's attempt to locate Revan, HK-47 was once again heavily damaged and almost entirely dismembered. HK-47's remains were later discovered by one of Revan's other droids, T3-M4, who recovered HK-47 and stored the remains onboard the Ebon Hawk.
Re: HK-47 | Knights of the Old Republic | Not reserved (3/5)
HK-47 is programmed with a personality that is misanthropic, sarcastic, and even sociopathic. HK is programmed to feel satisfaction when observing death and destruction, and intense joy when he is the one who is killing and destroying. Though strictly obedient to his master, he will constantly request permission to kill things, and may "interpret" commands in a way that allow him to terminate more sentient creatures (such as with the unfortunate Systech employees mentioned above). Furthermore, HK is perfectly capable of operating independently of a master, and will do as he pleases unless his current designated master has given him explicit orders to the contrary. (Typically, a lack of such a directive leads to more killing. "Freebies, if you will.")
A combination of HK-47's original programming and the development of many "quirks" over time have given HK unusual behavioral tendencies. HK considers droids superior to organic creatures in every way, with the exception of his master. Furthermore, HK consider himself superior to almost all other droids, so he has a bit of a chip on his shoulder. He refers to all organic creatures, including his master, as "meatbags," and is prone to asking them things like how they manage to accomplish anything with all those fluids and squishy bits and other inferior parts.
HK-47's quirky personality also includes an odd vocabulary trait: he prefixs everything he says with a conditional describing what he is about to say. For example, when Meetra Surik first discovered HK-47's personality, he had this to say: "Recitation: Yes, as I said, I am an assassin droid. It is my primary function to burn holes through meatbags that you wish removed from the galaxy… Master. Lament: Oh, how I hate that term." Sometimes this gives away that he is being sarcastic when his robotic tone does not. ("Sarcastic Commentary: What a brilliant deduction, sir. Were you also aware that a square has four sides, and that water is wet? Oh, how I wish I possessed your superior logical reasoning.")
Though HK-47 is typically caustic and sarcastic, he can hide his true colors very well. Not only is he designed to look like a (somewhat sinister) protocol droid, he is fully equiped to perform protocol droid functions such as translation, diplomacy, and psychological evaluation. HK has used this to his advantage on more than one occasion, acting the part of the subservient, polite, and docile protocol droid while he bided his time for whatever mission he was on.
HK-47 is also unusually creative, in a twisted way, for a droid. He has a deadly cunning, and often uses this to trick the "lesser" organic creatures into giving him his way, setting up tactical traps, and initiating other wily plots.
Re: HK-47 | Knights of the Old Republic | Not reserved (4/5)
Basic Package: HK-47 is programmed and equipped not just for assassination but for a wide variety of situation, making him a very versatile droid.
His basic "programming" (his knowledge) includes very thorough knowledge of the use of blasters, rifles, sniper rifles, "slug-throwers" (guns), grenades, flamethrowers, carbonite projectors, poisons, biological weaponry, missile launchers, mines, heavy-artillery, and a variety of melee weapons.
In addition to this combat proficiency, HK-47 is proficient as a mechanic, a "slicer" (hacker), and in demolitions (both arming and disarming). HK is also trained in various stealth tactics (how to find the best hiding spots, minimize noise, etc.)
Finally, HK-47 is fluent in most of the common Star Wars languages.
Regains:
Droid body: Hk-47 is a droid (a robot) made entirely of strong metals and other constructed materials. He does not need to eat or breathe, though he does need to maintain the lubrication of his joints and must power down after extremely long periods of activity to allow his internal generator to recharge himself.
Translator: As protocol droid impostor, HK is equipped with the standard communication protocols that allow him to decipher most forms of communication after sufficient exposure, allowing him to learn of 6000 forms of communication. In simple terms, this means HK can quickly learn to speak any language.
Equipment: HK gained a variety of combat gear in his travels, each of which counts as a separate regain.
-Droid Cortosis-Reinforced Plating Mark 3 (Heavy Battle Droid Plating Class 5): This heavy armor plating protects HK-47 from the heaviest of combat impacts - even a direct hit from a missile has its force significantly reduced against the droid. The plating is reinforced with a cortosis-allow weave, making it unusually resistant to energy weapons such as blaster-fire and even lightsabers.
-Optimized Perception Sensors: These upgrades to HK's photoreceptors and other sensor arrays grant him far greater senses than those possessed by humans. He can see in all electromagnetic spectrums (allowing nightvision, among other things), see and hear farther, and sense vibrations, making it very difficult to sneak up on him.
Flame-thrower: This small device is able to deliver a surprisingly large payload of flame. It is able to condense flammable fuel to a very small but dense substance, and then uses that to release very deadly blasts of fire.
Droid Mobility Upgrade Mark III: This upgrade improves HK's acrobatic abilities far above the human range. He is able to clear over 15 feet with a standing jump and run up to 35 mph.
Baragwin Weapon-X Disruptor Rifle An energy assault rival that is highly illegal throughout the Republic, blasts from this weapon can disintegrate matter at the molecular level and rip apart living material with ease and speed. Even a glancing blow can produce grievous injuries.
Mandalorian Heavy Blaster Pistols (paired set): The Mandalorian Heavy Pistol was an extremely modified version of the Heavy Blaster. It was used by Mandalorian warriors during and after the Mandalorian War, as well as mercenaries lucky enough to get their hands on it. These weapons delivered massive amounts of power from their cells.
Re: HK-47 | Knights of the Old Republic | Not reserved (5/5)
(After regaining his droid body back, HK-47 automatically designated a new master.)
[Hk-47's photoreceptors flicker for a moment as its power restores itself and its body reactivates. HK looks at and engages its targeting systems on his "father", and changes how he is defined in his programming. HK Speaks with a robotic monotone voice.]
"System Output: New Master defined.
Statement: HK-47 is ready to serve."
[HK looks the man up and down.]
"Disappointed statement: You appear to be an even more pathetic specimen than the worst of my previous masters, meatbag. Rest-assured, however, that Hk-47 will serve you loyally, especially in terminating any organic meatbags you need holes blasted in. Also, if you really wish to waste time, I am also programmed with a variety of other useful protocols, such as translation and analyzation.
Recommendation: Though really, master, most problems are best solved with unadulterated violence. Shall I kill something for you now?"
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