JK-13 security droid

"Among smugglers and the lower classes, some call them "Jedi Killers"."

- Lido Shan

The JK-13 security droid, unofficially known as the "Jedi Killer," was a JK-series security droid manufactured on the planet Ord Cestus. These droids rose to prominence during a time when they were threatened to be converted into combat droids.

Characteristics
The JK-Thirteen appeared chest-high and divided into sections, giving it a spider-like appearance in its attack mode. Its primary weapon was a set of stun tentacles extending from virtually every point on its body: these tentacles could be used to cut an opponent or deliver a disabling charge. Its primary defense was a shield-generator like technology that allowed it to absorb blaster bolts and presumably other weapons fire before it even came into contact with the droid itself.



Like all Cestus Cybernetics droids of its period, the JK-13 was unusually artistic and flexible, with a golden finish and enormous articulation of its tentacles, which could become fine or ropey at need.

The JK-13s were bio-droids: they used a living circuit design incorporating organics into the core processor, which was actually a life-support unit for a creature known as a dashta eel. Because the eels were Force-sensitive, they granted the droid some measure of precognitive abilities. This, in turn, granted it great combat ability: a JK-13 was able to defeat both a destroyer droid and even an ARC trooper, but was defeated by Jedi Master Kit Fisto only after being worn down with deflected blow after blow.

They sold faster than they could be produced, and cost 80,000 credits during the Clone Wars. They were assembled by Clandes Industrial in the city of Clandes.

History
The droids became important when Count Dooku employed them in a devious trap for the Galactic Republic. He circulated rumors that he planned to buy tens of thousands of the droids, clearly a grave threat to the Republic. The Republic responded by sending Jedi Generals Kit Fisto and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Ord Cestus to resolve the issue, because had the JK participated in the war, it would have been one of the most dangerous droids in the army of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. However, it was later revealed that the droids could neither be modified for lethality nor produced in great numbers, and that Dooku in fact had no real plans to do so.

Appearances

 * The Cestus Deception