User:Unit 8311

"What do I most desire? Power, riches, respect...the usual, really."

- Unit 8311

Hello. My username is Unit 8311 (as you have probably guessed, given that it has my name in huge letters at the top), and I am a contributer to Wookieepedia, which in my opinion is one of the best Star Wars sites ever. I generally prefer to edit and improve articles rather than create new ones. My favourite factions in the Star Wars universe are the CIS and Galactic Empire. I like the CIS because Super Battle Droids and Droidekas are awesome, and that the CIS would have won the war had Sidious not been manipulating everything, and the Empire because, well, I think it's cool.

Also, I have had the honour of making the first edit of 2007 (by Greenwich Meantime anyway).

NOTE: The following is completely made up, and is the somewhat long and elaborate fake biography of a huge Star Wars fan.

Creation
"Something's not right with that droid there."

- A Geonosian engineer

Unit 8311, designated UN-8311, was a super battle droid produced by the CIS on the foundry world of Hypori. A programming glitch granted him a rebellious, impish personality, but made him more intelligent than the average battle droid. He resisted several attempts to have his memory wiped and reprogrammed, but his masters decided that it would be best to leave him. 8311 tried to supervise the creation of battle droids on his foundry home by improving them, but his efforts were thwarted. Frustrated, he decided to accept it. Being a droid, he was long-lived, and able to have the long view.

Clone Wars
"That can't be a droid. That must be some sorta demon."

- A clone trooper in reaction to one of 8311's massacres

8311 served at the Battle of Hypori, and later on was moved, along with billions of his fellow battle droids, was moved to serve in theatres like Muunilist, Kashyyyk, and Felucia. In the service of the CIS, 8311 killed roughly 456 clone troopers, destroyed 54 vehicles, killed two teams of ARC troopers, and smashed the skull of a clone commando on Kooriva. General Grievous took an interest in him, as did Count Dooku, as 8311's kill count increased. Estimates put him at being approximately 123.7% more efficient than standard battle droids. Towards the end of the Clone Wars, 8311 upgraded himself with electronic pincers and molecular shielding, all created by himself. He was so succesfull in his new incarnation that the Grapple droid model was based on him. However, 8311 could now tell that the war was turning against the CIS, and after the battle of Coruscant, he left the Confederacy, and arrivied at Nar Shadda literally as the the droid armies were deactivated. When he first heard of the Confederacy's defeat, he was so enraged and saddened that he killed everyone he saw in a alley, just after arriving on the moon.

In the Service of The Empire
"Oh well, it could have been worse. They could have called it the 'New Republic' or something."

- 8311 upon learning of the new Empire.

For some months, 8311 was employed by a Hutt on Nar Shadda as a hit-droid, and killed fifteen people in the service of the Hutt. Soon, however, he grew tired, and as he was obviously a CIS droid many disliked and distrusted him. 8311 decided to leave the service of the Hutt, but was forced to stay by the Hutt's thugs. Getting desperate, he murdered the Hutt and, having done that, activated his personal bank account. Using his expert hacking skills, he transferred all the 123,022,212 credits in the Hutt's account to his own. To get a reputation, he decided, was to become filthy stinking rich. With that in mind, he downloaded billions of credits from other accounts to his own, and was the richest, albeit also most unknown, figure on Nar Shadda. However, 8311 was finding his body impractical, so he upgraded again. This time, 8311 purchased parts from an old, 4000-year old Hunter-Killer droid, but still incorporated elements of his first upgrade and original super battle droid design. With that, he began recruiting various thugs off the streets of Nar Shadda and Nal Hutta, using a foolish Twi'lek called Rafgh that he had met whilst in the employment of the Hutt as a puppet to do so. Soon, 8311 was a powerful crime lord, and dealt with the shipping of illegal spice, drugs, gambling, bank robberies, and established multiple brothels. Soon, he was so powerful that even Jabba the Hutt and Black Sun feared him, but he was generally unknown outside criminal groups, and he gave his criminal syndicate the name of Steel Legion. However, he attracted the attention of the Empire. Darth Vader, in person, gave him a proposition: work with the Empire and manipulate the criminal underworld for the Empire, but still carry on with your own activities. 8311, knowing better than to argue with a Sith, agreed, despite knowing that he was becoming another puppet of the Empire.

However, Darth Vader sensed that 8311 would do better than being a mere puppet crime lord. He gave 8311 a job in Imperial Intelligence. Imperial officers were amazed by 8311's effeciency, and soon he was given a job as the first droid general of the Imperial Army.

From Imperial to Rebel
"Who says droids can't get rich?"

- 8311 to a doubtful aide

By now 8311 was perhaps the most influential droid in the galaxy. He doubled Imperial Intelligence's effeciency rate, won several battles on Cato Neimoidia and Drongar, and was increasingly richer from his illegal doings. However, 8311 was becoming increasingly power-hungry, even going as far as to murder a Moff to promote himself. Meanwhile, under the guidence of 8311, the Steel Legion continued to expand and grow more and more powerful. The Emperor was becoming aware of the threat that 8311 was starting to present, and ordered 8311 destroyed. However, just before Imperial Stormtroopers were about to attack his palace on Nar Shadda, 8311 copied his consciousness and memories into the shell of an astromech droid. Then, in the shell of his new body, 8311 escaped, just as stormtroopers destroyed his previous body, mistakingly thinking that he was dead. 8311 managed to escape the Imperial assassins, who mistakedly believed him to be just another astromech, and proceeded to join the Rebel Alliance. To do so, he let himself be captured by Jawas and sold to some prospecting rebel leaders. Once in the ownership of the Rebellion, he proved himself to be more than just another maintenance droid by hacking into an Imperial computer network, amazing his rebel masters. He offered further help in exchange for a new body.

Civil War


"Yay! A war! Just what I was built for!"

- 8311

The Rebels kept their promise and granted 8311 the body of a captured IT-0 droid, which, although the rebels didn't tell him, was the only droid body they would give him. With that, 8311 managed to unblock his bank accounts, which had been frozen by the Empire, and began funding Rebel operations. Soon, after the Battle of Yavin, he was moved to Hoth, a place he disliked immensely due to the cold. Soon enough, 8311 was caught up in the Battle of Hoth as Imperial forces attacked, and he managed to escape by stowing aboard a transport, which was critically damaged by fire from an star destroyer during its escape. Life support was destroyed, so the crew suffocated, leaving only 8311 alive.

Return Home
"Ah, my beloved home Hypori. How much I missed you."

- 8311

The striken transport drifted through space for a few weeks before finally crash-landing on Hypori, with the droid factory were 8311 had been born still standing. Overjoyed, 8311 transferred himself to the body of a modified droideka and resumed production. Soon, 8311 had assembled an immense army numbering over eighty-two billion droids, and began plotting his re-ascent to power. Some time later, with his army, he travelled to a Rebel rendevous place, only to find the Battle of Endor won and the Empire in disarray. Overjoyed, 8311 re-positioned his army at Hypori, and offered to start producing munitions for the newly-formed New Republic to help defeat the Imperial Remnant. The rebel leaders agreed. As the galaxy celebrated, however, they were unaware that the worst was yet to come...

Yuuzhan Vong War
"Yay! Another war!"

- 8311

For the next twenty-odd years 8311 continued to fund and assist the growing New Republic, whilst also subtely re-establishing his Nar Shadda criminal empire, and continuing to upgrade his droideka form. Now that the effects of the Clone Wars were safely in the past, 8311 was no longer attacked for his Confederacy-related origins or his droideka appearance. However, in 25 ABY, the Yuuzhan Vong War began, and 8311 began to fight for the New Republic, using his immense droid army to hold off Vong forces. During the course of the war, 8311 was severly damaged and repaired several times, so by 29 ABY he was so repaired and upgraded that he was considerably different in terms of appearance than he was before the start of the war. However, once Coruscant fell, 8311 feared the worst. He retreated back to Hypori, the sight of several attacks by the Yuuzhan Vong, and remained there for some time, awaiting news. However, once word came to him of that the New Republic was triumphant, he began touring the galaxy, mopping up Yuuzhan Vong remnants and helping rebuild the galaxy. Once that was done, he returned to Hypori, to be ready should the newly-formed Galactic Alliance need him.

Further Conflict
"Note to self: never make a deal with temparamental Imperial admirals."

- 8311

At some point around the Dark Nest Crisis, 8311 ended up getting into conflict with Admiral J. Nebulax when a weapons deal went badly wrong. 8311 used his personal ships manufuctured at Hypori and some Steel Legion ships to combat the Admiral's forces, and several skirmishes broke out between the two factions, at locations such as Naboo, Thule, and some dustball that nobody cared about. 8311's forces, although outdated, had the numerical advantage, and soon the conflict developed into a stalemate. Both sides attempted to break the stalemate. 8311 hired a bounty hunter to destroy a weapons dump belonging to the Admiral, who retaliated by destroying an orbital defence platform of 8311's above Hypori. Afterwards, with both factions battered, they both sued for peace, and a treaty was signed. Some entertaiment companies released holo-games based on the brief conflict, much to the bemusement of both sides.

Afterwards, 8311 would go on to witness the events of the Legacy era, and would go on to watch galactic events for a long time to come.

Steel Legion
This used to be on a seperate page, but thanks to the Evil Admins who run this place, I've had to relocate it here.

"Back then, it seemed like the Steel Legion and that bastard 8311 ruled the galaxy. Believe me, you didn't want to mess with him."

- Anonymous Black Sun thug

The Steel Legion was a highly powerful criminal organisation, based on Nar Shadda, ruled by the old CIS battle droid Unit 8311.

Formation
The Steel Legion was first formed shortly after the end of the Clone Wars, when Unit 8311, in his second incarnation, set about using a Twi'lek puppet to recruit thugs and commit minor crimes. However, shortly after, it rocketed upwards in power when 8311 transferred billions of credits from other bank accounts in his own. With that, he set up its headquarters in an old disused club house and began taking over the Nar Shadda underworld.

Reign
Quickly, the Steel Legion converted disused buildings in the lower levels of Nar Shadda into drug-houses, brothels, and other illegal venues. It purchased several old tunneling machines, used for mining, and used them to drill into a supposedly impregnable credit depot, stealing billions. Imperial forces, their hands already full with all the crime infesting Nar Shadda, could do nothing about it. Soon afterwards, Steel Legion thugs captured a freighter carrying Imperial military equipment, including AT-ATs, AT-TEs, other various walkers, and old LAATs. Shortly afterwards, a large force of AT-ATs and other war machines attacked a large nova crystal depot, known as Fort Tox. The Imperial militia stationed at the fortress were shocked to see their own walkers approachin and offered minimal resistance. The communications centre at the facility was destroyed, so the thugs driving the walkers ransacked the depot at their leisure. After about twelve hours, every single nova crystal had been stored aboard several old CR20 troop carriers and the thugs leaved. An outcry followed, and Darth Vader himself had to cover up the incident. Hundreds of billions worth of credits of crystals had been stolen, and nobody seemed to notice 8311's bank account suddenly increase rapidly. Within weeks, the Steel Legion subtely controlled the Nar Shadda underworld, and extended to Nal Hutta and even Coruscant. It's military capabilities were demonstrated when a large contingent of it's Plasma Tanks assualted an Imperial cash and nova crystal depot. A large battle ensured, and ultimately the Steel Legion tanks had to retreat, but this all proved to be a distraction whilst Legion thugs looted the depot, stealing astronomical amounts. The Empire quickly worked out that the organisation that had attacked the depot was the same as the one that had overrun the nova crystal depot, but still did not realise that it was a relatively unheard of Nar Shadda criminal organisation.

The Good Days
By now the Steel Legion was immensely powerful, with access to much resources, hundreds of billions of credits (not including 8311's personal wealth), tremendous manpower, powerful influence on countless worlds, and even a large space fleet. It was now that it attracted the attention of the Empire. Darth Vader himself asked 8311 to help manipulated the underworld in the Empire's favour. 8311 agreed, and ironically soon his forces raided another cash depot. Emperor Palpatine took an interest in him, and although he was almost certain that the Steel Legion was behind the depot attacks, he continued to observe 8311's activities. Sensing a potential resoruce or asset, the Emperor used false intelligence information to trick the Rebel Alliance forces into attacking a Steel Legion drugs factory on Zaadja, hoping to weaken the Rebel Alliance and the Legion, weakening two potential threats. Ultimately, that battle was a draw, and both Legion and Rebel forces retreated.

Increasing suspicion
Soon, 8311 was visited by Darth Vader and given a job in Imperial Intelligence. This was partly so that the Empire could monitor 8311 and control his resources. Quickly, 8311 began concentrating on his work with the Empire rather than running his crime syndicate, and gave more power to his more trusted underlings. However, he still co-ordinated raids on cash depots and banks, and now the Steel Legion effectively had a military. 8311 then purchased some old pre-Clone Wars capital ships, and began commencing with pirate raids on merchant ships. Soon, the Legion had a considerable starfleet itself, equipped with capital ships such as Keldabe-class battleships, Venator-class star destroyers, as well as Z-95 Headhunters and Rihkxyrk Attack Ships. Shortly afterwards, 8311 had a special Keldable-class with extra modifications built for him to serve as his flagship--he christened it the Iron Harbinger.

Shortly afterwards, 8311 discovered the location of an old but powerful Mandator II-class Star Dreadnought, floating in space after being abandoned in the Clone Wars. Taking it over, he used it to cause chaos on major trade routes, stealing large amounts of credits from merchantmen, as well as destroying some pirate groups that stood in the way after the Legion. After he no longer had any use for the old ship, he sold it to both the Empire and Rebellion for an enormous amount of money, and arranged for both of them to pick it up at the same place. Rebel and Empire forces arrived at the same spot 8311 had arranged, and promptly began fighting each other. Eventually, the Empire triumphed and got the Star Dreadnaught, and then Legion ships purged the area of any valuable components which it sold on the black market. 8311 made a tremendous amount of credits from the operation, which he spent mostly on expanding the ever-growing Legion.

8311 continued to purchase old shipyards which he used to produce further space forces, and hired groups of scientists and engineers to start designing original starships exclusively for the Legion. However, the Emperor was now certain that 8311 was the head of the now very powerful Steel Legion, after carefully monitoring him.

Disintegration
Finally, the Emperor was not only aware of 8311's role as head of the Steel Legion but was also aware that he was becoming too powerful. Squads of elite Imperial Stormtroopers stormed 8311's palace on Nar Shadda. 8311 escaped, but he was forced go into hiding, and the Steel Legion collapsed.

Collapse
With 8311's fall, the Steel Legion collapsed, and it's assets fell into the hands of groups like the Empire, Black Sun, the Hutt Cartel, Tyber Zann's organisation, and the Rebellion. 8311's personal accounts were frozen. Quickly, Nar Shadda became how it was before the arrival of 8311.

Aftermath of Endor
In the aftermath of the Empire's defeat, 8311 joined in the celebration, whilst continuing to expand his droid army using the old droid factories on Hypori. However, he was beginning to focus more on expanding his political power rather than his criminal assets. The Steel Legion continued to be an influential crime gang on Nar Shadda, but still nowhere near as powerful as it was once. Notable acts it commited during this era of stagnation were multiple drug smuggling campaigns and expansion into piracy on the Corellian Trade Spine, but it was still nothing to what it was when in its prime.

Age of the New Republic
The Steel Legion continued to decline during the New Republic, as 8311 found out that supplying weapons to the New Republic and Imperial Remnant was more profitable than his crime organisation. Slowly, it began to collapse. Black Sun and crime cartels based on Nar Shadda decided that they had had enough of the Legion, and they began commencing assaults on the Legion's bases, destroying several casinos and brothels. 8311 was unconcerned, and eventually he decided to 'retire' and gave command to one of his second-in-commands, Ferd Swqaru. Some of the other major figures in the Legion did not approve, and either left or defected to other crime organisations.

The Black Sun Wars
Ferd was quite pleased to recieve control of the Legion, and he was desperate to see it return to the 'good old days', as he put it. He began a gang war with Black Sun, destroying one of their Nar Shadda headquarters. Black Sun retaliated by commencing an all-out military assault on the Imperial Casino, the Legion's largest casino, which was also legitimate, and contained most of the Legion's funds in its vaults. Fortunately, 8311 had been using the vault to store some of his droidekas which were being manufuctured at his private droid foundry on Hypori, and they repelled the Black Sun forces. Undeterred, Black Sun successfully attacked and looted one of the Legion's cash depots. With this dent on the Legion's financial status, Ferd put into effect Operation Steel Fist. He raided a musuem on Coruscant and stole an old SPHA-T, which he used to attack and destroy a large section of Black Sun's Nar Shadda headquarters. He also broke into its vaults, stealing most of the Nar Shadda vigo's funding. This was a major victory for Legion, and postponed the gang war.

Yuuzhan Vong war
For the next several years, the Legion continued to deal with both legitimate and illigetimate businesses. The occassional gang war with Black Sun cropped up, but these were over quickly. 8311 had lost interest completely in his child organisation. Indeed, he had not been seen for sometime, and became an ubran myth on Nar Shadda. Ferd struggled to bring the Legion to what it once was, and he doubted that he ever would. However, he did expand the Legion's fleets to a considerable size, and put 8311's old plans of Legion-exclusive capital ships into motion, with new vessels such as Metal Fury-class cruisers being churned out of hidden Legion shipyards. These ships proved more than a match against the capital ships of major galactic governments.

However, the Yuuzhan Vong war then broke out, which would change the galaxy. Ferd feared the worst as the Vong began vongforming worlds, and relocated the Legion from Nar Shadda to his homeworld of Mon Calamari. His hunch was right, as Nar Shadda ended up being vongformed and the city destroyed. Meanwhile, Legion fleets began harassing and crippling Vong forces in many areas. Mon Calamari became the new capital of the newly-established Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

Later years
With Ferd's death in 97 ABY, years after the Yuuzhan Vong war, the Legion would disintegrate into splinter groups, with each one's leader believing itself to be the truthful heir to the Legion. After a long dispute, the leaders turned to the original founder, 8311, who was residing at his retreat on Hypori. His answer:

"I quite frankly couldn't care less."

- Unit 8311

This did not encourage the Legion factions to unite, and they continued warring for a while. However, one of the factions purchased a large quantity of battle droids from 8311, and quickly took control of the rest of the Legion, which began to ascend back to power, but did not quite reach the levels it had once had. By the Legacy Era and the rise of the New Empire, the Legion was an influential body with presence on many worlds, ruled by a council rather than a single leader, but it never quite reached the power it had under 8311.

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My Star Wars Favourites

 * Favourite All-Time Character: Tie with General Grievous and Emperor Palpatine
 * Favourite Prequel Trilogy Character: General Grievous
 * Favourite Original Trilogy Character: Han Solo


 * Favourite All-Time Starship: Tie between Star Destroyer and Providence-class carrier/destroyer
 * Favourite Prequel Trilogy Starship: Providence-class carrier/destroyer
 * Favourite Original Trilogy Starship: Imperial Star Destroyer


 * Favourite All-Time ground vehicle: Tie between Juggernaut and AAT
 * Favourite Prequel Trilogy ground vehicle: Tie Between Juggernaut and AAT
 * Favourite Original Trilogy ground vehicle: AT-AT


 * Favourite All-Time droid: Droideka
 * Favourite Prequel Trilogy droid: Droideka
 * Favourite Original Trilogy droid: R2-D2


 * Favourite All-time Starfighter: Tie between Vulture Droid and X-wing
 * Favourite Prequel Trilogy starfighter: Tie between Vulture Droid and ARC-170
 * Favourite Original Trilogy starfighter: Tie between X-wing and B-wing


 * Favourite All-time faction: CIS
 * Favourite Prequel Trilogy faction: CIS
 * Favourite Original Trilogy faction: Galactic Empire


 * Favourite All-time species: Kaleesh
 * Favourite Prequel Trilogy species: Kaleesh
 * Fav Original Trilogy species: Rodian


 * Favourite All-time Star Wars episode: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Favourite Prequel Trilogy episode: Revenge of the Sith
 * Favourite Original Trilogy episode: The Empire Strikes Back

My Personal Traits

 * I rarely, if ever, make any edits on Sundays.
 * I am commited to Wookieepedia to the point of nearly being obsessed.
 * I love my computer. It's always crashing, see.
 * Kiss my shiny metal ass.
 * Query: is there anyone you need killing, master?

Poll
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