Thanks for the feedback guys; there are some great idea here.

I think I will let him attempt it, but it would be the equivalent of brain surgery. There is a lot of risk in his data being corrupted during transfer, making him lose pieces of his mind/programming, and no way of knowing what programming or personalities the other droids will eventually come to emphasize.

The droid's motivation is Droid Rights, which is at extremes with his plans for making clones of himself. If for some reason, it all goes perfectly, then I'll bring up the fact that he's pretty much mind-wiped a bunch of existing droids, and plans to basically use them as property. Considering the clones are supposed to think similarly to the host, then I would imagine that they would be pissed.

That is about the best possible way of handling the situation. Keep us posted!

Thanks for the feedback guys; there are some great idea here.

I think I will let him attempt it, but it would be the equivalent of brain surgery. There is a lot of risk in his data being corrupted during transfer, making him lose pieces of his mind/programming, and no way of knowing what programming or personalities the other droids will eventually come to emphasize.

The droid's motivation is Droid Rights, which is at extremes with his plans for making clones of himself. If for some reason, it all goes perfectly, then I'll bring up the fact that he's pretty much mind-wiped a bunch of existing droids, and plans to basically use them as property. Considering the clones are supposed to think similarly to the host, then I would imagine that they would be pissed.

"But what about ME?"

"You're me now"

"I mean the REAL ME?"

Oh, have fun with that one...

Two words: Identity. Theft.
Think of all the stories you have heard about someone having their identity stolen, then finding out that some jackleg used their ID to run up a credit card bill and skip out on it...commit a crime, and give the suckers name...rack up a hospital bill and skip out....The list is pretty much endless. And now the player has to deal with the fact that he is wanted for robbery, cattle rustling, attempted murder, capital murder, fraud, theft, embezzlement, and anything else your dark, sith heart can come up with. If he wants it, let him have it...but make him regret it. <Insert Palpatine laugh here>

I would let them try.

My take on it would be that Each Droid (including their own original "Shell" they tried to link into their "Net" would make it more difficult to more difficult to control them all and keep them from following their own dictates.

I am not sure if I would use Computers or discipline..(Perhaps both depending on situations.)

But I would have the Difficulty rise by 1 Die per "Droid" being controlled.. So their own shell Would be the First at 1D. A second would be 2D and so on... They could have "More" droids in their "army" But after issuing a Command, unless the Sentience wanted to remain in Direct control of a specific, The Droid would become Independent To follow the commands. To issue Commands to multiple droids at once, they have to make the computers Check at the difficulty based on # of droids being commanded at once. The Complexity of the commands would add set back dice.

This is Why it took a Massive Control Ship, most likely Loaded with Master Computers he Droid were slaved to control Federation droid Armies. Though I don't think they had All their Droids Slaved to the Computers.. just the Base droids.

I would Probably use Discipline to have the "Sentience" try to retain it's own sense of self as it kept spreading itself out. Discipline roll would be made every time it tried to command or Control More than one "Shell" at a time with the Difficulty based on the number of Droids being Commanded/Controlled. A failure Would mean the Droids going a Bit Schizo and running rampant in random ways/directions until the Sentience regained control of it's self. More threats would mean the more chaos/destruction the droids attempted to cause during the Episode, More advantages would mean the droids would be more passive in their response... Repeating something over and over.... Continually repeating a mundane task.... and so forth...

And yes, Becoming a Galactic nemesis and a problem for everyone, (even becoming GM controlled NPC) would be the Likely end result of all of this, With different shards of personality showing up in random places throughout the galaxy.

My read on this is that if the droid pc tries to upload his consciousness and memories to other droids he is not pushing for droid rights, he is abusing droid rights. It looks to me like he is trying to take over their bodies.

What are the other players view on this?

There is no WiFi in star wars which would prevent a droid consciousness from existing in multiple bodies. This could be viewed as a deliberate way to avoid droid rebellions (after all they did almost conquer the galaxy). That's why R2 has to plug in everywhere and C3P0 has to carry a comlink. It's also why whenever a Jedi killed a droid in the prequels the whole droid army didn't automatically know where to find the Jedi.

If the pc did create skynet it would most likely be in the form of a supercomputer that different droids could connect to and upload their memories, it would quickly form an agenda of its own. The pc would be no more than a worker ant in the Borg collective, he would maintain his own body and personality but he would gain obligation towards the hive he created. If he died his memories would live on but not as a playable character.

Copying a droid mind is no different than cloning a living being, it's an exact copy and not an extension of your will. Droids are only as good as their hardware, if the pc copied his mind into a binary droid he would create his own idiot brother.

If the combat droids have better hardware then the PC will have created upgraded versions of himself... but why would they listen to an inferior model? They would inherit the PC's drive to create skynet but there would be no place for outdated droids like the PC, think I robot (step 1: destroy all older droids, step 2: enslave the human race for its own good)

I'd make him do it one droid at a time and have the first one try and replace him. First have it annoy the he'll out of him (and the party) by repeating everything he says at the same time and make it clear that it had the exact same personality. Then make the party decide which one to keep, the original PC or the PC in a combat droid body. Whichever one the party wanted to keep I'd make the other take the rest of the droid bodies with them.

slaving Droids and ships is already establish in the the Core movies and the EU.

The separatist droid armies were already slaved to a control center. This actually started becoming a problem for them in the clone wars as the Republic forces would always target the Control ship, so the Separatist started spreading out there control to smaller nodes and even some Control droids to prevent whole armies from being eliminated by 1 ship being blown up.

In the EU there were Ships that were slaved to a control ship using the same technology as the Separatist armies to be able to coordinate and control the movement and fire from one ship, using the targeting data from once source rather than each vessel having to obtain their own solutions.

So though there may not be a Galactic wide "internet' per se... it is established that such Networks can be created.