AD-01

General History
AD-01 was developed by an insane but brilliant Twi'lek droid development scientist, in a remote part of Tatooine. It took him nearly six years to develop the first model in the AD-01 series. Unfortunately, not two months after the droid was complete and in the final phases of testing and tweaking, the Imperial Bean counters got wind of the project. Word came down that the project was being axed- no more funding, no compensation for past investments or current debts. Fortunately, the Twi'lek's troubles came to an end very quickly- in the course of adjusting some programming, he activated AD-01's defensive protocols while the droid's safety systems were offline. This had the unfortunate dual effect of both leaving the droid's systems unaccessible by other sentient beings and his primary combat protocols unlocked and fully active. This was the beginnings of AD-01's life, approximately seven years before the battle of Yavin.

Despite having been canned by the Imperial Accountants, AD-01 found himself fully armed and functional. Using Tattoine as a home base, AD-01 approached the Imperial authorities in his contact files. For nearly seven years, he operated as a covert assassin for the Imperial Intelligence Beaurau. AD-01 successfully eliminated well over two hundred critical targets and several hundred tertiary ones, including felling Jedi, prominent bounty hunters, thieves, smugglers, defectors, and of course, members of the nascent Rebellion. It was not until he was ordered his operator to assassinate a senior member of the Imperial Military as part of an internal power-struggle that the droid found himself caught up in the middle of intra-galactic politics. En route to the mission, the droid was hit with a series of EMP blasts, shut down, and stripped of virtually every piece of critical equipment and weaponry he had. Only his core systems were left relatively untouched, though many of his external subroutines were left damaged and relatively unworkable. Fortunately, his primary systems core and his heuristics subroutines were undamaged. Still, he was poorly shut down, fairly ripped apart with a hydrospanner, then sealed into a poorly insulated storage crate and put into an Imperial warhouse. It would be a decade and a half- well after the fall of the Empire and resurgence of the Republic- before he would be activated again.

Combat
AD-01 is a combat-heavy unit. He was designed to be able to stand up and engage enemy forces under a withering hail of blaster fire, sacrificing agility for sheer durability and endurance. He is heavily armed, with a wide array of weaponry that even without a blaster makes him an extraordinarily formidable opponent.