3PO Series Protocol Droid
Supplied with a SyntheTech AA-1 Verbobrain, the 3P0 protocol droid is capable of storing huge amounts of information, enabling it to understand over six million forms of communication and respond in nearly all of them. It also has a tremendous capacity for analyzing previously unknown languages and translating them into whatever language its master desires. The 3P0 even includes an olfactory sensor for translating pheromonal communication. The 3P0’s additional memory storage is generally used to keep specific communication modes in active memory, avoiding lengthy delays while searching for linguistic information in mid-translation.
Each 3P0 comes with a factory-installed restraining bolt mount. They are also programmed for passive behavior—a typical 3P0 droid never attacks under any circumstances. If the droid becomes a problem, the 3P0’s shutdown switch is conveniently located at the back of its neck.
Built to resemble humanoids, 3P0’s come in a wide variety of colors.
3P0 Series protocol droids can be played as droid heroes.
3P0 Series Protocol Droid (CL 0)
Saga Edition Core Rulebook, page 198.
Medium droid (3rd-degree) nonheroic 1 playable
Initiative: −1; Senses: Perception +1
Languages: Basic, Binary, 3 unassigned
Defenses: Ref 9 (flat-footed 9), Fort 9, Will 11
Hit Points: 2; Damage Threshold: 9
Immune: droid traits
Speed: 6 squares (walking)
Melee: unarmed −1 (1d3−1)
Fighting Space: 1 square; Reach: 1 square
Base Attack: +0; Grapple: −1
Abilities: Str 8, Dex 3, Con —, Int 13, Wis 13, Cha 14
Feats: Linguist, Skill Training (Knowledge [bureaucracy], Knowledge [galactic lore])
Skills: Knowledge [bureaucracy]+6, Knowledge [galactic lore] +6, Knowledge [social sciences] +6, Persuasion +12
Systems: walking locomotion, basic processor, translator unit (DC 5), 2 hand appendages, vocabulator
Possessions: audio recorder
Availability: Licensed, Cost: 3,000
M-3PO Series Military Protocol Droid
After the huge success of the original 3PO droid, Cybot Galactica hoped to continue its accomplishments by creating and selling multiple variants of the line. Many designs were created, but most of them never made it into production. Top officials began to get frustrated at the lack of results, until one junior executive thought of a market that had yet to be catered to for the organizational and communication skills that only a 3PO protocol droid could bring: the military.
In the years that followed the ntroduction of the M-3PO military protocol droid, the presence of this droid model grew, most commonly within planetary garrisons and starfighter bases. Despite the fact that M-3POs are highly skilled at what they do, they also came with the same annoying personality traits commonly associated with the base 3PO line, a design flaw that proved to be extremely unpopular with the troops.
M-3PO droids have the standard 3PO body, colored black, but have a radically different head. Shaped roughly like a clamshell, the head was taken from Cybot Galactica’s discontinued KW traffic controller series and reinforced to protect the revamped AA-1 Verbobrain within.
M-3PO series military protocol droids can be played as droid heroes.
M-3P0 Series Military Protocol Droid Encounters
Despite their designation as a military droid, M-3POs are not designed for combat. On the contrary, their primary function allows them to work as administrative organizers, performing such tasks as requisitioning, duty roster planning, and personnel file management. Since they are programed with the rules, regulations, and procedures of over six million military and paramilitary organizations from the past and present, including ceremonial etiquette, historical military principles, and conventions of honor, they are virtually guaranteed to perform their duties by the book every time.
M-3PO droids are most commonly found at military installations, including starships and space stations. Some military leaders decided to take full advantage of the knowledge database stored in the droids’ heads and employed them as strategy aides and tactical instructors, putting them at the front of the briefing room to lecture the troops on what can and should be done in a given situation. Although many of the soldiers hated receiving training from a droid (let alone a stiff-necked one at that). many of those who heeded its lessons returned from the battlefield alive.
A fair number of soldiers aggravated at their M-3PO uits have “accidentally” left them behind in the Outer Rim. Many of those droids took the initiative to reprogram themselves to become soldiers as well.
M-3P0 Series Military Protocol Droid (CL 0[1])
Threats of the Galaxy, page 150.
Medium droid (3rd-degree) nonheroic 2 playable
Initiative: +0; Senses: darkvision;Perception +1
Languages: Basic, Binary, 1 unassigned; translator unit (DC 10)
Defenses: Ref 11 (flat-footed 11), Fort 10, Will 10
Hit Points: 4; Damage Threshold: 10
Immune: droid traits
Speed: 6 squares (walking)
Melee: unarmed +1 (1d3+1)
Base Attack: +1; Grapple: +1
Abilities: Str 10, Dex 9, Con —, Int 12, Wis 11, Cha 15
Feats: Armor Proficiency (light), Skill Training (Knowledge [bureaucracy], Use Computer)
Skills: Knowledge [bureaucracy] +7, Knowledge [tactics] +7, Persuasion +8, Use Computer +8
Systems: walking locomotion, basic processor, translator unit (DC 10), 2 hand appendages, darkvision, vocabulator, plasteel shell (+2 armor)
Possessions: audio recorder
Availability: Military, Cost: 3,700
Footnotes and References
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- ↑ Threats of the Galaxy has no official errata, but to remain consistent, 3 nonheroic levels equals 1 heroic level and any remainder is rounded down.