Ssi-ruuvi security droid

The Ssi-ruuvi Security Droids were a form of battle droids used by the reptialian Ssi-ruuk of the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium.

Description
These droids resemble a swollen R-series astromech droid. Like the vast majority of their technology, these security droids are powered by entechment, which involved a living organism's life-energy and consciousness being drained from its body to be used as a power source for a machine.

These droids were spherical in shape and stood only at 0.8 metres in height. Security droids travelled on three wheeled legs and were coloured in a dull metallic green. Due to entechment, they are faster and more agile than they appear. Their main photoreceptor is linked to a Ssi-ruuk's visual range which includes some of the ultraviolet spectrum. The droid also features olfactory detectors since the sense of smell is an important sense to the Ssi-ruuvi species. The rear of the spherical droid's upper atmosphere also features a cluster of hexagonal power conduits.

The security droid's primary weapon is a mounted short-range blaster on a rotating apparatus near the main body. The beam fired from the blaster is strong enough to knock a P'w'eck (a slave species enslaved by the Ssi-ruuvi early in their history) unconscious though it can prove fatal for Humans. Despite this, such droids are not well-insulated against power surges and ionization, thus causing them to short-circuit when shot by another stun gun.

History
During their invasion of Bakura in 4 ABY, the Ssi-ruuvi expeditionary fleet brought several of these droids along. Following the Ssi-ruuvi defeat at the hands of the Alliance of Free Planets and the local Imperial garrison, the surviving droids were confiscated by the New Republic and sent to top-secret research facilities for study.

Appearances

 * The Truce at Bakura