HM-series Droids

HM-Series Heavy Maintenance Droids

Created on Kasputin Yar by a Yari droid engineer named Zr-Gt-Hn Ouurene, for the family-run company Zr-Gt-Hn Droids And Equipment. They were designed with several goals in mind, not the least of which was easy navigation of the rather interesting terrain of the Kasputin Yar shipyards.

This model of droid rapidly became popular in the shipyards, displacing quite a number of other pieces of common equipment. Able to weld and cut normal materials with onboard plasma torches and arc welders, highly modular and adaptable manipulators replaced most bolt and nut drivers(as well as being every bit as capable of handling normal tools as a Yari's natural hands), and capable of walking upside-down along the smoothest of surfaces, carrying several times their own weight, they propelled Zr-Gt-Hn rapidly to the forefront of niche droid manufacture on Kasputin Yar.

Perhaps the most popular feature of the HM-series, at least on their homeworld, was thier electromagnetic noise output. Rather than the foul cacophony of electromagnetic noise produced by most droids, the systems of the HM series are relatively relaxing, likened to windchimes and soft pipes, instead of the sound of a drum set and a sack of cutlery in a clothes dryer.

Owing to their versatility and natural group co-ordination, some Yari ship construction managers employ groups of them in place of larger lifting equipment. One key element in their popularity was their ability to speak in clear and concise sentances, reassuring those who work alongside them that they fully understand the work that is to be done. Highly versatile, they have been sold to a number of offworld organizations, including the CDU

A HM-series droid's most notable hardware is as follows:

Cargo Lifting Arms, 2 Variable-configuration manipulators, 2 Ultra-high-traction nanostrand gripping strips(retractable, found in 'toes' and cargo grippers), 20 Plasma Cutter(one per fine manipulator), 2 Arc Welding Contacts(two per fine manipulator), 4 Traction Magnets(one per foot, one per cargo arm), 6 Molec-Weave suspension line(one per foot), 4 Laser Meaurement System(uses all three optic sensors) Voice Synthesizer Radio Coms Unit Microgravity maneuvering thrusters