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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 12:32 am    Post subject: Observation Droid Reply with quote

Observation Droid
1.0 Overview
Arakyd’s Observation droid is a compact, repulsor-borne probe/sentry designed for short-range surveillance, message relay, and crowd/area sweeps. A red primary photoreceptor in a black, spherical shell gives it the classic “eye-cam” profile seen across the Clone Wars—from Republic police work to criminal syndicates. Its small form factor let police gunships and security skiffs deploy swarms on demand.

2.0 Capabilities & Equipment
Locomotion: Quiet repulsorlift hover; stability vanes for station-keeping in tight corridors.
Sensors/Comms: Forward photoreceptor with basic optical/EM; directional mic array; encrypted transceiver for burst reports—plus a public-address vocabulator on “cam droid” loads to speak orders or relay messages.
Tools: Internal recorder (audit logs), spotlight/flash for low-light work.
Armament: None by default. Some jurisdictions coupled them with armed escorts; the droids themselves stayed unarmed to pass legal muster.

3.0 Variants & Firmware SKUs
OD-OBS (Observation): Baseline patrol/surveillance package used by the Galactic Republic and security forces; no weapons; full recording/audit.
OD-CAM (Cam/Broadcast): Adds vocabulator and priority‐address subroutines for public orders and ceremonial escorts—this is the “cam droid” that intervened on Zygerria to de-escalate and route the Jedi to the Queen.
OD-SYN (Syndicate): Stripped audit, hardened comms, favored by the Pyke Syndicate and Zygerrian authorities; otherwise identical shell.
Imperial "Sentry" Microprobe: Early Imperial garrisons reused the Observation shell with tweaked paint and firmware; visually similar by design, but cataloged separately as a sentry probe.

4.0 History
Clone Wars: Used broadly—by the Republic/Coruscant Security Force for searches (e.g., pursuit of Ahsoka Tano in the underworld) and by Zygerrian and Pyke authorities for patrol and crowd control.
Zygerria Incident: An OD-CAM unit publicly ordered a halt to a brewing street confrontation and escorted the Jedi to the throne audience—illustrating the broadcast variant.
Republic Police Sweeps: Carried aboard police gunships, launched in clusters to track suspects through terminals and lower levels; one positively ID’d Tano at a public comm booth and queued a Coruscant Guard intercept.
Imperial Era: The Empire fielded a visually similar sentry probe variant in garrisons—largely a firmware re-image of the familiar sphere.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 12:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Observation Droid
A small, black-shelled repulsorlift probe/sentry from Arakyd, the Observation droid is a short-range surveillance camera with a red photoreceptor, recorder, spotlight, and encrypted comms—unarmed by design so it can fly anywhere from Coruscant police sweeps to Pyke and Zygerrian patrols. The OD-CAM firmware (“cam droid”) adds a vocabulator and priority-address routines to speak public orders and de-escalate crowds, while the standard OD-OBS runs quiet watch/relay duty. Early Imperial garrisons re-skinned the same shell as a visually similar “sentry” microprobe.

Observation Droid OD-OBS
Model: Arakyd OD-OBS
Type: Short-range surveillance/sentry probe (civil/security)
DEXTERITY 2D
Dodge 2D+1
KNOWLEDGE 1D+2
Bureaucracy 2D, law enforcement 2D
MECHANICAL 2D+1
Communications 3D, repulsorlift operation 3D, sensors 3D+1
PERCEPTION 3D
Search 4D, sneak 3D+1
STRENGTH 1D+2
TECHNICAL 2D+1

Computer programming/repair 3D, security 3D
Equipped With:
Sensor array
Photoreceptor
Encrypted transceiver
Audit-log recorder
Spotlight/flash
Stability vanes
Move: 14 (hover)
Size: 0.4 to 0.5 meters spherical shell (black)
Cost: 1,800–2,400 (municipal/security lots)
Availability: 3, F/R
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Observation Droid OD-CAM
Model: Arakyd OD-CAM
Type: Public-address/de-escalation/escort probe
DEXTERITY 2D
Dodge 2D+1
KNOWLEDGE 2D
Bureaucracy 2D+1, law enforcement 2D+1
MECHANICAL 2D+2
Communications 4D, repulsorlift operation 3D+1, sensors 3D+1
PERCEPTION 3D+1
command (crowd control) 4D, persuasion 4D+1, search 4D, sneak 3D+1
STRENGTH 1D+2
TECHNICAL 2D+1

Computer programming/repair 3D, security 3D
Equipped With:
Sensor array
Photoreceptor
Wide-band vocabulator/PA (siren, multilingual packs)
Encrypted transceiver
Audit-log recorder
Spotlight/flash
Municipal PA uplink interface
Move: 14 (hover)
Size: 0.4 to 0.5 meters spherical shell (black)
Cost: 2,400–3,200 (broadcast package)
Availability: 3, F/R
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Observation Droid — OD-SYN
Model: Arakyd OD-SYN (criminal/syndicate)
Type: Covert surveillance/runner probe (Pyke/Zygerrian)
DEXTERITY 2D
Dodge 2D+2
KNOWLEDGE 1D+2
Streetwise 2D+1
MECHANICAL 3D
Communications 4D+1, repulsorlift operation 3D+1, sensors 3D+1
PERCEPTION 3D+1
Search 4D+1, sneak 3D+2
STRENGTH 1D+2
TECHNICAL 2D+2

Computer programming/repair 3D, security 3D+1
Equipped With:
Sensors array
Hardened encrypted transceiver (+1D to opposed communications vs jamming)
Spoofable ID beacons
Audit logging stripped
Spotlight/flash
Stability vanes
Game Notes: A black-market Observation with stripped logs and tougher crypto, favored by Pykes/Zygerrians for deniable watch and relay work—same shell, shadier software.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Observation Droid Imperial Sentry Microprobe
Model: Arakyd OD-IM "Sentry"
Type: Garrison sentry/relay probe
DEXTERITY 2D+1
Dodge 3D
KNOWLEDGE 1D+2
Law enforcement 2D+1
MECHANICAL 3D
Communications 4D, repulsorlift operation 3D+1, sensors 4D
PERCEPTION 3D+1
Search 4D+1, sneak 3D+1
STRENGTH 1D+2
TECHNICAL 2D+1

Security 3D
Equipped With:
Sensors array
Garrison-mesh transponder/relay node
Encrypted transceiver
Audit-log recorder (tamper-evident)
Spotlight/siren
Stability vanes
Move: 14 (hover)
Size: 0.4 to 0.5 m sphere (Imperial gray/black)
Cost: 3,000–4,500 (Imperial lots)
Availability: 4, R
Game Notes: While within 200 meters of line-of-sight of a patrol unit or post, allied troopers gain +1D to search rolls (stacking from multiple probes does not apply).
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