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EI-9 Network Security Droid
Affiliation:
Open Market
Manufacturer:
Arakyd Industries
Class:
Second-degree security droid
Locomotion:
Bipedal legged Power Supply:
Rechargeable power cell, 96-hour duration
Sensors:
- 2x photoreceptor.
- 1x infrared sensor.
- 2x motion detector.
- 2x audio receptor/sonar sensor.
- 1x radar sensor.
- 1x radionic sensor
- 1x energy scanner.
- 1x olfactory/chemical sensor
- 1x hologram projector/recorder.
Size:
Height: 1.3 meters
Composition:
Durasteel
Tools and Equipment:
- 1x spotlight.
- 1x manipulator arm.
- 1x fire extinguisher.
- 1x wrist blaster, right arm, medium damage
- 1x integrated comlink.
- 1x computer probe.
- 1x reader socket.
- 1x standard I/O socket.
- 1x network integration suite
- 1x data communication array
- 1x quick-load computer core
DESCRIPTION
A long-standing but regularly updated model, the EI-9 Network Security Droid has been known since the Imperial Era as a bane to slicers everywhere. Its distinctively oversized head houses an advanced network integration suite, processor cores, and data communication, granting it massive processing power for handling connected computer networks and allowing wireless access. It has a wide array of data links, cables, and adapters, making it able to connect to virtually any standard computer system.Designed to protect computer networks both physically and in person, a wrist blaster and advanced targeting software make it accurate despite its awkward appearance, easily aiming and firing while still seated and connected to a system. Its memory banks carry a massive array of slicing programs, decoy algorithms, proprietary dataplagues, quick-deploy firewalls, and data sweepers. Powerful multi-core heuristic processing means it adapts and reacts quickly to new security threats, deploying new programs or adjusting existing ones on the fly faster than an organic could ever hope to. While directly connected to a system through its many high dataflow cables, a hostile slicer connected wirelessly is easily often outpaced and outplayed.
As a result, the EI-9 was considered a difficult foe for slicers and data thieves. It was very aggressive and often worked in groups, with one droid keeping the slicer busy while several more EI-9s infiltrated the slicer's systems. It could backtrack attacks to find out where the intruders might be operating from and send other droids or security to intercept the slicer at the terminal or wireless port they were using.
Vital to its work, each EI-9 comes equipped with a quick load hidden computer core which would restore all its defaults if the droid was compromised in any way. Slicing one or infecting it with a dataplague results in a reboot to those saved defaults, only buying time. A collection of sensor equipment helps it monitor its environment- usually a server room or security center- for intruders or even more mundane problems like overheating hardware or magnetic disturbances.
Owing to its advanced and expensive components and high value in a galaxy rife with skilled slicers, each EI-9 retails for around 25,000 credits brand new. They aren't common as a result of this high price tag. It's most corporations or well-off space stations that buy them to oversee local networks paired with physical security. Ironically, especially successful slicers sometimes get their hands on a black market model and heavily modify it to serve as a mobile slicing deck loaded with custom programs, leveraging its processing power and versatility for their own ends.
LEGALITY
Restricted. Being armed combat models, these droids require special permits and licensing for ownership in most regions. Their slicer-oriented nature requires even more licensing.INTENT
Do introduce from legends the first network security droid on the forum.