Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 18:16:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: McMike Overbo <overbom@stolaf.edu>
Subject: and now the droids!

Here's the homemade MD-5

Industrial Automaton's MD-5 General Practitioner droid
Type: Medical surgical droid/General Practice medical droid
Dexterity : 1d
Knowledge : 2d+2
Mechanical: 2d ; (A) Bacta Tank Operation 5d
Perception: 3d ; (A) Injury/Ailment Diagnostics 6d
Strength  : 1d
Technical : 3d ; First aid 7d, (A) Medecine 9d
Surgical Skills:
When operating or doing other small handwork, due to extra motion sensors 
in the hands & secondary motor units, MD-5s get a +2d bonus to dexterity.

Equipped with:
Computer Interface Jack and cord
Hardwired Medical Diagnostic computer
Analytical Computer Brain
Retractable Surgical Attachments
Retractable Hypodermic injectors (4d stun damage)
Medecine dispensers

Move: 5
Size: 1.6 Meters tall
Cost: 11000 (new)
     General practitioner droids are small mobile medical science
computers, usually assigned to spaceships when a living doctor is
unavailable or too expensive. They can only be programmed with the
complete medical records of a limited number of beings, thus making
them perfect monitors during extended flights. They can administer
first aid and perform simple surgical operations. They are considered
the "country doctors" of space. 

      IA recently upgraded its MD-5 series, coming to realize the fact
that the old Analytical Computer brain they were using was, in fact,
flawed. They had issued some patch hardware, but the MD-5 was still
operating only at around 80%. So, they coupled their best analytical
brain with some of the innovations of the AA-1 VerboBrain, and ended
up with the ABMD1 ScienceBrain. The MD-5 became about as skilled as
your average doctor. Another plus of the ABMD1 is that the MD-5
started to develop personality. (yet another plus of the brain). And
yet another innovation of the ABMD1: programmers can wipe the memory
banks of the droid without wiping its personality (or vice versa, if
they so choose). Current patient limit of the MD-5 is about 50. 

Some of MD-5's stuff might be quoted from 2nd Edition SWSB, I dont
remember. 

if you liked it, mail me and tell me so. if you hated it, and wish 
to cause me great harm, mail me and tell me.

                                "No, really. I'm just a protocol droid"
                                   Mike McDroid Overbo