Know Your Enemy
Expanding on some of the earlier tips on surviving the robot holocaust, here's a sort of "top ten" list of some robot types to watch out for.
Robotic Threat Index
10. B.A.T.s - Standing for Battle Android Trooper, these are the automated legions of Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. Each one is equipped with a modular arm that accepts a variety of manipulation or armamnet attatchments, including hand, claw, machine gun, flame thrower, and rocket launcher. Out of all the robotic menaces, this one is probably the least fearsome. Like the Battle Droids of the Trade Federation armies, they answer to organic masters and possess no robotic agenda. They are basically slow and mindless walking guns. Also like Battle Droids, they are built with quantity in mind over quality. However, Battle Droids exist in far greater numbers than B.A.T.s and thus score higher on the threat scale. Battle Android Troopers are only sometimes designed to communicate and never take prisoners. That being said, anyone who can bloop a frag should fare well against one of these things. You don't need to be a HOR to take on a B.A.T. and if you can't take on a B.A.T. by yourself, then maybe you're not the HOR you thought you were.
9. Battle Droids - Three types of robots of various lethality are being included in this category. Even though these types of machines have successfully conquered at least one planet, as a group they still still score relatively low on the threat index. These types all share certain qualities, such as being under the control of organic masters. This is important, beacause these robots will not necessarily seek to exterminate all life. These robots also recieve an operating signal that is known to originate from droid control ships. No type of Battle Droid can function without this signal. Though this may make the signal source seem like a tempting target, the facts are that this signal source can be ground based or come from orbit, which might be difficult for you to get to. Also, you'd better be sure there isn't multiple signal sources before you concentrate all your efforts on taking out one source.
Battle Droid - The standard infantry of the Trade Federation armies. Individually, they are no more a threat than B.A.T. However, as already mentioned, these things are deployed on a planetary invasion scale and exist well into the billions of units, while there are probably only a few thousand B.A.T. units in total. Battle Droids are usually programmed to speak any indigenous languages and often take prisoners. Universally equipped with a blaster rifle that they are not particularly good shots with.
Super Battle Droid - The most versatile, and thus probably the most dangerous of the Trade Federation units. Each one is equipped with a wrist mounted, twin barrel, rapid fire blaster. Their humanoid configuartion allows them to traverse most types of terrain. They possess greater than human strength and their durable metal chassis can withstand multiple hits from standard blaster fire. Programmed with two personality types; "ill-tempered" and "purportedly comical".
Destroyer Droid(Droideka) - Though technically the most dangerous of the three types, the droideka is hindered by several weaknesses. It's peculiar, tripodal configuration and pointy legs are severe drawbacks when these units must traverse soft or uneven terrain. Thus they are encountered mostly indoors. They are also vulnerable in their wheel mode and during their transformation sequence when they cannot deploy their forcefields. Despite all this, the only real option when a droideka has it's shield up and it's guns trained on you is to run away!
8. Robocop 2 - This is one scary looking robot, and it's not all for show! It's fearsome foursome of arms contain a cutting torch, a saw, a battering ram, and a gatling gun, and some suprises, no doubt. Though possessed of human level intelligence, expect this unit to be in the service of an even more malevolent mastermind. For Robocop 2 is made into an easy slave via it's addiction to the narcotic of it's own design, called Nuke. Pretty ironic, LOL! Needless to say, unless you run afoul of the mastermind's diabolic scheme, expect encounters with Robocop 2 to be rare, especially outside Delta City. A hatch on this units' back can be opened to remove the brain inside, but not by anyone of less than Robocop level strength.
7. ED-209 - Graded slightly more dangerous than Robocop 2, because while Robocop 2 is easily controlled, ED-209 is completely out of control! These Enforcement Droids respond with violence to the slightest provocation. Unfortunately, it's never easy to say what these units will regard as "provocation". Watch out for it's rocket launchers! Anything less than a cobra assault cannon (not related to Cobra; a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world) is not going to stop these things. These units are for sale, so they could technically be found anywhere, but are mostly localized around Detroit.
6. Terminator/ Cylon - These two types are similar in terms of goals and means to achieve those goals. Both want to exterminate all mankind. DO NOT APPROACH! They'll kill you on the spot no matter what's on your mind. Both have legions of identical infantry units, though I give the edge, in terms of intelligence and durability, to the terminator units. The Cylons, as a space based threat, and having obliterated the populations of twelve worlds(compared to the terminators' one world), obviously have the advantage in terms of numbers. Both types also use infiltration units, who are designed to be indistinguishable from normal humans. The Cylon version is more difficult to detect, but they use only twelve different versions(or eight, I forget). So if you uncover one of these cylon undercover agents, remember the face! If you ever see that face again, congradulations! You've uncovered another cylon agent! Both types of robots use nuclear weapons, so be ready for radiation, nuclear fallout, and that sort of thing.
The rest later!
Robotic Threat Index
10. B.A.T.s - Standing for Battle Android Trooper, these are the automated legions of Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. Each one is equipped with a modular arm that accepts a variety of manipulation or armamnet attatchments, including hand, claw, machine gun, flame thrower, and rocket launcher. Out of all the robotic menaces, this one is probably the least fearsome. Like the Battle Droids of the Trade Federation armies, they answer to organic masters and possess no robotic agenda. They are basically slow and mindless walking guns. Also like Battle Droids, they are built with quantity in mind over quality. However, Battle Droids exist in far greater numbers than B.A.T.s and thus score higher on the threat scale. Battle Android Troopers are only sometimes designed to communicate and never take prisoners. That being said, anyone who can bloop a frag should fare well against one of these things. You don't need to be a HOR to take on a B.A.T. and if you can't take on a B.A.T. by yourself, then maybe you're not the HOR you thought you were.
9. Battle Droids - Three types of robots of various lethality are being included in this category. Even though these types of machines have successfully conquered at least one planet, as a group they still still score relatively low on the threat index. These types all share certain qualities, such as being under the control of organic masters. This is important, beacause these robots will not necessarily seek to exterminate all life. These robots also recieve an operating signal that is known to originate from droid control ships. No type of Battle Droid can function without this signal. Though this may make the signal source seem like a tempting target, the facts are that this signal source can be ground based or come from orbit, which might be difficult for you to get to. Also, you'd better be sure there isn't multiple signal sources before you concentrate all your efforts on taking out one source.
Battle Droid - The standard infantry of the Trade Federation armies. Individually, they are no more a threat than B.A.T. However, as already mentioned, these things are deployed on a planetary invasion scale and exist well into the billions of units, while there are probably only a few thousand B.A.T. units in total. Battle Droids are usually programmed to speak any indigenous languages and often take prisoners. Universally equipped with a blaster rifle that they are not particularly good shots with.
Super Battle Droid - The most versatile, and thus probably the most dangerous of the Trade Federation units. Each one is equipped with a wrist mounted, twin barrel, rapid fire blaster. Their humanoid configuartion allows them to traverse most types of terrain. They possess greater than human strength and their durable metal chassis can withstand multiple hits from standard blaster fire. Programmed with two personality types; "ill-tempered" and "purportedly comical".
Destroyer Droid(Droideka) - Though technically the most dangerous of the three types, the droideka is hindered by several weaknesses. It's peculiar, tripodal configuration and pointy legs are severe drawbacks when these units must traverse soft or uneven terrain. Thus they are encountered mostly indoors. They are also vulnerable in their wheel mode and during their transformation sequence when they cannot deploy their forcefields. Despite all this, the only real option when a droideka has it's shield up and it's guns trained on you is to run away!
8. Robocop 2 - This is one scary looking robot, and it's not all for show! It's fearsome foursome of arms contain a cutting torch, a saw, a battering ram, and a gatling gun, and some suprises, no doubt. Though possessed of human level intelligence, expect this unit to be in the service of an even more malevolent mastermind. For Robocop 2 is made into an easy slave via it's addiction to the narcotic of it's own design, called Nuke. Pretty ironic, LOL! Needless to say, unless you run afoul of the mastermind's diabolic scheme, expect encounters with Robocop 2 to be rare, especially outside Delta City. A hatch on this units' back can be opened to remove the brain inside, but not by anyone of less than Robocop level strength.
7. ED-209 - Graded slightly more dangerous than Robocop 2, because while Robocop 2 is easily controlled, ED-209 is completely out of control! These Enforcement Droids respond with violence to the slightest provocation. Unfortunately, it's never easy to say what these units will regard as "provocation". Watch out for it's rocket launchers! Anything less than a cobra assault cannon (not related to Cobra; a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world) is not going to stop these things. These units are for sale, so they could technically be found anywhere, but are mostly localized around Detroit.
6. Terminator/ Cylon - These two types are similar in terms of goals and means to achieve those goals. Both want to exterminate all mankind. DO NOT APPROACH! They'll kill you on the spot no matter what's on your mind. Both have legions of identical infantry units, though I give the edge, in terms of intelligence and durability, to the terminator units. The Cylons, as a space based threat, and having obliterated the populations of twelve worlds(compared to the terminators' one world), obviously have the advantage in terms of numbers. Both types also use infiltration units, who are designed to be indistinguishable from normal humans. The Cylon version is more difficult to detect, but they use only twelve different versions(or eight, I forget). So if you uncover one of these cylon undercover agents, remember the face! If you ever see that face again, congradulations! You've uncovered another cylon agent! Both types of robots use nuclear weapons, so be ready for radiation, nuclear fallout, and that sort of thing.
The rest later!
posted by Jamie S. Luxton III | 8:03 PM
4 Comments:
Thank you for these valuable tips. Until now I was afraid that if a Battle Droid showed up on my doorstep I wouldn't know what to do! But now I know!
And knowing is half the battle!
Huzzah once again! If there is more onformation that I need, it's how to defeat a robot. Before I found this blog I was confounded by my nephew's Furbie. When I thought I had it under control it bit me. I guess I shouldn't have let it eat after midnight.
Hmm... what about dangerous half-robots? There's a whole lotta cyborgs out there - Darth Vader, for a start, not to mention those technological terrors who nonetheless haven't yet conquered the stair, the Daleks! You could do a whole other blog post just on cyborgs.
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