Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 16:52:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Rollens <rollens@YOUR-NET.COM>
Subject: [SW-RPG] Stats: SHFT-9 cargo droid (not stock!)
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>I'm looking for the stats for a few interesting PCs from all
>of your games to post on my website.

Here you go (he functions best as an ally to the PCs.  In my
campaign, the PCs rescued him from death at the hands of
their employer)

SHFT-9 "Shaft"
Type:  Cargo Droid
Model:  Sion Hwuidian Engineerings' Functional
Taskmaster
Age:  143 years Height:  2 meters       Weight 110 kg
Description:  Tall, black, bulky, with no finesse or grace
whatsoever.  Intelligent-sounding voice.  Metal plating
battered and scored.  Glowing yellow eyes.

DEX 2D
Blaster 5D+2, Brawling parry 4D, Dodge 5D, Running 5D+1
KNO 1D+2
Alien species 4D, Planetary systems 3D+2, Languages 2D,
Steetwise 4D+1
MECH 3D
Repulsorlift ops 4D, Sensors 4D+1
PER 2D
Search:  sensor tracking 4D
STR 5D
Lifting 7D, Stamina 5D+2
TECH 3D+1
Blaster repair 4D, Computer programming/repair 5D, Droid
programming/repair 5D

Move:  8
Character Points:  16
Equipped with:  personal blaster cannon (5D+1), two arms,
two legs, Glycol power generator (in chest cavity; four
outlets on torso), battered armor plating (+1D to all attacks),
omnidirectional sensors (motion-, heat-, life-detecting)

"Memory wipe?  Who needs 'em?"

Capsule:  SHFT-9 was one of a limited run of cargo droids
designed expressly to serve on luxury liners.  The SHFT
series was described as "a protocol droid trapped in a
cargo droid's body".  Combining power with intelligence, the
series could be seen moving heavy cargo crates around in
the hold, but if a confused passenger came up to ask
directions, the droid could respond intelligently and politely.
Shaft served faithfully aboard the liner Corona's Fire for
nearly fourteen years, until, during a pirate attack, he
was presumed dead.
        SHFT-9 was not dead, however.  He had been
captured by the pirates and served with them for almost
thirty years, eventually becoming their leader.  The pirate
group, under SHFT-9's leadership, preyed on containers
running the long Perlemian Trade Route.  Eventually Shaft's
group attacked a fleet of Dreadnaught cruisers, and, in the
ensuing carnage, they were slaughtered.  All except
SHFT-9, who ejected himself out of the airlock at the last
instant and tumbled away into space.  By picking up stray
hyperspace signals during his sojourn in deep space,
Shaft learned that the Dreadnaughts were actually the
Republic's fleet, sent to combat the insane clonemasters.
In this way, Shaft was drawn into the epic Clone Wars.
        SHFT-9, after drifting through space for two
months, was picked up by a small Corellian freighter.  The
droid had nearly expired from lack of power; only his
redundant Glycol unit kept him functioning.  Repaying the
old captain's kindness, Shaft gave the man all the credits
that were leftover from the pirate group's storehouse.  Then
Shaft went on to become a ruthless war droid, hunting
down and eliminating the insane clonemasters as the
Clone Wars dragged on.
        Then the Wars were over, and peace returned to
the Republic, and SHFT-9 dropped out of sight for a while,
working as a protocol droid on a backwater planet called
Diptha.  While working on Diptha, Shaft had the opportunity
to meet Derrith, a young man running an up-and-coming
smuggling business.  A totally independent droid, Shaft
suddenly found himself being claimed by the Empire.  In
order to avoid working for them, he decided that he would
be "owned" by Derrith, and the young man agreed to be
his "owner".
        Over the years Derrith manipulated Shaft,
exerting more and more power over his "favorite droid".
Now, Shaft is nothing more than a protocol droid that has
never had a memory wipe.  He is secretly searching for a
way to get back at Derrith, but his time is running out. . .