Droids Defiant

Droids Defiant is an article written by Thomas Bowling which appeared in Star Wars Adventure Journal 9.

Plot summary

Recent privateer activity on Cosmohaul Shipping resulted in a Cosmohaul executive having the idea to hire cheap mercenaries to guard their shipment. The mercenaries are hired onto the Argent Lady that was hauling a group of R5-series astromech droid. The ship's captain, Xalto Sneerzick, and his crew were secretly part of the Droid Abolitionist Movement and en route uploaded a virus to the R5 droids in hopes of causing them to break their programming and become independent. A malfunction in some of the R5 caused them to revolt against their liberators and they killed the Argent Lady crew. The mercenaries then had to escape from the Cutlass, an Imperial Patrol Ship that appeared in their path and demanded the ship power down for a 'routine inspection.'

Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Felben Cuplatt (First appearance) G-3PO (First appearance) Crizby Rumbo (First appearance) Xalto Sneerzick (First appearance) Paxtrell Snoygal (First mentioned) Babalabbet Swoont (First mentioned) Zoodia Tantra (First appearance) Untirrka (First appearance)

Creatures

Bantha

Droid models

Droid Agrirobot (As "farming droid") Astromech droid R5-series astromech droid Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid

Locations

Coruscant Mid Rim Sev Tok Sullust system The Slice

Organizations and titles

Cosmohaul Shipping Cyberneticist Dock Master Droid Abolitionist Movement Engineer Galactic Empire Imperial Navy Ghtroc Industries Gunner Industrial Automaton Marine Mercenary Miner New Republic Officer Captain Lieutenant Pilot Pirate Privateer Slaver SoroSuub Corporation Vice President

Sentient species

Human Sullustan

Vehicles and vessels

A/SF-01 B-wing starfighter Compact Assault Vehicle/Wheeled PX-10 Escape pod Freighter Bulk freighter Cargo Empress-class super freighter Argent Lady System patrol craft Cutlass TIE/sa bomber X-wing starfighter

Weapons and technology

AA-1 VerboBrain Acoustic signaller Airlock Arc welder (As "electric welder") Blast helmet Blast vest Blaster Blaster carbine Blaster pistol Sporting blaster Breath mask Broadband antenna Circular saw Comlink Cybernetics Datapad Detonator Fire extinguisher Grasper arm Grenade Hyperdrive Intercom Ion drive Maneuvering jet (As "maneuvering thruster") Medpac Motivator Navigation computer Personality matrix Plasma-Jet Mole Miner (As "mole miner") Sensor Audio sensor Photoreceptor (As "visual sensor") Servomotor Subspace beacon Tool kit Droid tool kit TranLang III communications module Turbolaser Vocabulator

Miscellanea

Baradium Cigarra Duracrete Emancipation virus Galactic Credit Standard Hyperspace Imperial standard meter Lubricant Metric ton Moon Ration pack Rodian flame silk Sabacc Slavery Spaceport Standard century Standard day Standard hour Standard year Tattoo