Hey everyone,

I've had this idea about my player's droid character. He's built off the chassis of an old HK-51 droid. He isn't using their programming or anything and is actually an Outlaw Tech. I'm sending him to one of the locations an HK-50 would have been destroyed and I was thinking of having them find a preserved HK-50 head. I was also thinking of it having its memory banks full of info that would be important for them. Since they were somewhat rogue I was going with they have more info in them than just how to kill. Possible contents of memory banks: locations of an asteroid worth of cortosis, info on extinct alien species (for selling to colleges or such), star charts and info on missing or forgotten planets, information on how to make a more efficient personal shield generator that was popular at the time, and the full programming of an HK-50 assassin droid, which the PC droid character could also look into incorporating into his functionality. What do you guys think about the idea of a PC droid finding a similar droid but with different programming and incorporating that info into his functionality?

Finding info and such isn't much of an issue and is generally reasonable. In a lot of ways, it'd be just the same as finding a few datapads filled with useful information, the only thing is that it's possibly being uploaded into a single player, than something each group member could hold.

Bringing in combat abilities of an assassin droid can be a bit weird, since you'd probably be giving a few ranks in combat skills to the player for free. I'd personally allow it if the skill increases only applied to no more than two skills (probably just Ranged Heavy, maybe also Ranged Light), if the increases capped at a total skill rank of 3 (so if he has Ranged Heavy at 1, it goes up by 2 to 3, if it's already at 3, it doesn't increase), and if the downloaded programming had a negative effect on the player. This could pop up in the way of him pulling a blaster on a hostile the group is trying to have more peaceful negotiations with or something. And then it would require the group's slicer (or to find/hire a slicer) to try and purge the negative aspects of the programming, with it being easier to dump the programming if the droid is willing to give up some (or even all) of the gained combat skills, and harder if they try to keep those skills.

wow, I didn't even think of the negative aspects of the programming coming into to play. Maybe he starts calling sentients meat bags.