So over the winter break I got to hang out with some old roleplaying friends and we decided to play a 5 session mini campaign while we were all in town. We played Force and Destiny mixed with edge of the empire, basically two force sensitive togruta twins, a healer/niman disciple and a shien expert (me), and three humans: starfighter ace, mercenary soldier, and gadgeteer. It was a lot of fun with a great story, but I feel compelled to tell the story of one of the greatest moments I have every seen happen in this game system.

By the second session the group had landed on Dantooine, and the togruta healer stumbled upon an old droid that had been shut down in the maintenance bay. Turns out it was an HK-50 unit that was discovered and remarkably well preserved near some old jedi ruins. He was HK-55, and a very powerful ally for our crew, but it wasn't until a dance club on Taris he ascended into the legends of our gaming group.

Fourth session we went to a seedy dance club on Taris to find someone to fake some identities for us, but the Nautolan forger wanted something else. The drinks he offered all the PCs turned out to be poisoned, and everyone failed their resilience checks, which left HK-55 looking around at the throngs of organics ripe for killing. The whole club started shooting, with tons of minions (about 20 or so) with some rivals near the bar and a kitted out death machine of a Quarren bounty hunter. Without pause HK-55 began the party with a bang, throwing a thermal detonator we forgot we had into a group killing about ten minions. A wookiee bodyguard proceeded to throw a vibro knuckler punch at HK who grabbed the wookiee's fist, and Batman style broke its bones. But the quarren bounty hunter was firing loads of sniper rounds into HK, and now the 2 dozen and a half minions laying dead didn't seem like much with low health and the quarren firing death down from a railing.

But low and behold, we forgot we had strapped two sticks of detonite to HK-55's chassis. Just in case. With his integrity failing and the other side of the room full of creatures to kill, HK vaulted over the bartending table he had been using for cover, ran straight at the railing the Quarren was atop, screaming at the top of his voice processor volume "MEATBAGS!" The explosion left only the Nautolan and two of his men alive (who were out of range btw), and the quarren was on the floor gasping for air as blood clogged his lungs.

Our group had never seen such a devastating killing spree from anything in the game before, having an assassin droid as an NPC ally was one of the craziest and most enjoyable times we've had in the game. And now we hope HK-55 Ascended is now riding a Basilisk war droid with cortosis weave plating and a Sidewinder in each hand, ready to reap divine judgment on any meatbag he deems unworthy.

I felt compelled to share this story, as not only was the experience devoid of PC interaction, it garnered more respect than any sacrifice we've seen any other NPC make. It was a legend in the making.

Hope you enjoyed this, and share HK-55's story among the stars.

*pours out a WD-40 for the fallen*

Nice to see the KoToR influence holds strong on other groups.

So... did the GM hand HK-55's sheet over to a player or were you all just spectators at this point?

Nice to see the KoToR influence holds strong on other groups.

So... did the GM hand HK-55's sheet over to a player or were you all just spectators at this point?

He actually gave us the character sheet as soon as he became an NPC in our group. Instead of operating all the enemies with NPCs and such he thought we would like the control of our allies, plus it helped that I would roleplay as HK-55 with all kinds of KotOR phrases just for the fun of it. Over the course of the five sessions we controlled HK-55, a Twi'lek mechanic, and the gray Jedi father of the togruta twins (he lost a limb and eventually died btw).

But yeah HK-55 had a full profile that seemed to me copy and pasted assassin droid specs. Quite powerful, and it was fun that we the players got to play around with such unadulterated mayhem.

I'm pleased. It would have been sad if the best moment of the game had been a cut-scene. Well done that GM.

The best part is that I doubt the HK scene was even planned. The GM had this whole arc about family ties and Revan idolizers and the HK scene just stole the show, having nothing to do with the base story. I've had similar type moments in my games when I've been the GM.

My favorite by far was when the PCs just finished a boss battle with thieves with exceptional cloaking abilities (lots of shots in the dark), and at the end they were standing exhausted in an art gallery when a console appeared out of the wall and it said "countdown commencing". My players asked "What the hell does that mean?" as I pulled out my timer and said, "You have 30 seconds to deactivate the security (Computers) and deactivate the bomb (Mechanics). They immediately freaked out and started making actions that were not easy, and they needed to succeed before they could continue. The panic that spread like wildfire as they failed over and over and the clock kept counting down was one of the best moments I've had as a GM (they did stop it btw, with like 8 seconds on the clock). Although being a PC witness to the HK-55 massacre was pretty sweet too.