tika

Character Name: Tika
Position, Occupation: Ship's Astromech Droid
Character's Political View: Ruby
Race: R2 Series Astromech Droid
Age: 14
Sex: None, but acts female
Color: Green and White 
Height: 4' 5"
Weight: 300 lbs
Birthplace:  Industrial Automation Astromech Fabrication Plant #A73TY, Corellia

Physical Description: Tika is looks like any normal R2-class astromech droid, with a green & white color scheme. 

Professional History: Tika was built in Astromech Fabrication Plant #A73TY. From there, she was shipped to Kuat, where she was placed into service aboard an Imperial Nebulon-B Frigate that was being built at the Kuat Drive Yards. Shortly after, the frigate was captured by the rebels. Shortly after, the Rebels transferred her to a Gallofree Medium Transport, which was eventually shot up badly by the Imperials. It managed to hyperspace out of the system, but when it arrived, it crash-landed on a forest world. She met a female Caamasi, who repaired her so Tika stayed with her. Once Ruby and Dalida arrived, Tika became friends with Ruby, and the twins took Tika with them after killing the Caamasi.

Background: Tika was built as a standard R2 astromech droid fourteen years ago in one of the astromech fabrication plants run by Industrial Automation. She was placed into service on an Rebel Nebulon-B Frigate being built at the time.

Her service was quite unimpressively average. During a nasty battle with the Imperials, an explosion damaged Tika's internal systems and managed to disable the circuits involved in wiping an R2 unit. However, this quirk of chance was never discovered due to the serious repairs needed for the actual ship.

Tika quickly learnt how to hide the fact that she still had her personality. When a Rebel transport she was assigned to crashed on a forest world, Tika was found by a female Caamasi Jedi master named Sanari, who had moved to a quiet place. She repaired Tika's damage and she stayed with Sanari as a companion.

When two red-haired twins also crash-landed on the planet, they met Tika and Sanari, staying with them. One of the pair, Ruby, befriended the astromech and they became quite close. Ruby did some enhancements to Tika when she could, such as the ability to nullify restraining bolts and rudimentary ion surge shielding.

When Ruby, Dalida and Sanari travelled to Yavin IV for a short trip, they took Tika as well. During this time, the twins became corrupted by the dark-side of the Force and they killed Sanari. Tika didn't mind, since Ruby had secretly removed some nasty programming blocks. During this time, Ruby discovered that in the past, someone had added a SyntheTech AA-1 Verbobrain into Tika, probably during a time when no 3PO translator unit was available. This allows her to access its language translation banks.

Although Tika cannot actually speak them as she has no vocabulator, she can translate what is said to her and transmit the translated words over a comm-channel. This can be done directly into Ruby's bio-circuitry so she can seem like she can actually understand unknown languages.

When Ruby & Dalida had saved up enough money to buy ships, more improvements were done on Tika, including full ion surge shielding and fitting Tika with a weapon mount for personal defence. This gun is not tied into a gripping arm so Tika has full control of her arms & claw.

Personality: Tika displays a very chirpy and quick-witted personality as do all R2 units, and has a preference towards acting female. Tika is sincere and insightful. She will back-talk freely as well as share her opinion whenever feeling like it, due to some 'constructive' re-programming by Ruby. Courage and the ability to lie are also abilities Tika can do. She is very good at lying.

The standard ethical blocks that force R2 units to serve others and most of the behavioural inhibitors have been stripped out. Consequently, Tika has no qualms about freely lying, killing, harming or maiming humanoids and has the accuracy to do so.

Tika misses Sanari sometimes, but does not let the twins know out of 'fear'.

Base Of Operations: None. 

Form of Dress: Tika does not wear clothing as she is a droid. 

Weapons of Choice: Tika has a weapon-mount that can handle a weapon upto and including a blaster rifle. However, she does not normally carry any.

Superhuman Powers or Augmentations to Body: Damage from an Imperial attack means that Tika cannot be memory-wiped. The Rebels also added a couple of unusual skills to Tika's, such as basic demolitions and knowledge of basic fortifications.

Ruby performed numerous modifications to Tika's initial schematics. These include underwater environmental compensation, a rust inhibitor throughout her body, an internal undetectable encryptable commlink, a motion &  long-range sensor, and a broad-band external antenna.

One of the major modifications is the addition of ion surge shielding. Because of this, Tika can resist a sustained ion blast for upto 2 minutes before being forced into a disabled state. She also has a restraining bolt disabler that can be switched on or off at will by Tika in an instant, so by the time someone puts a bolt on her, it is unable to effect her. Ruby also removed certain programming blocks that stop droids sharing opinions freely, and added a weapon mount capable of holding upto a blaster rifle.

Abilities: Tika's standard R2 abilities include computer use, repair, piloting, astrogation and disabling devices. Updated information during her history includes demolitions, fortifications, ship & droid design, gathering information, listening and spotting. Tika is proficient with all classes of starships, ranging from starfighters to transports to capital ships.

Standard R2 Equipment: 3 wheeled legs, retractable heavy grasper arm, retractable fine grasper arm, video sensor, small arc welder, circular saw, lubricant sprayer, holoprojector with recording capability, infrared vision (30 m), magnetic feet, fire extinguisher, repair tools (hydrospanner, magnetic screwdriver, etc), video display screen, retractable computer data I/O port and interface, 20 cm by 8 cm 2 kg internal cargo area, diagnostics package, environmental compensation (vacuum)

Modified and Added Equipment:  environmental compensation (water), rust inhibitor, internal undetectable encryptable commlink, ion surge shielding (can resist sustained ion blast for 2 minutes) restraining bolt disabler (can be switched on or off at will by Tika in an instant), broad-band external antenna, motion sensor (+2 on spot checks), long-range sensor (-1 penalty at 40 m instead of 4 m on Spot), Removal of programming blocks that stop droids sharing opinions freely, Weapon mount capable of holding a hold-out blaster

Contact Tika via Ruby