Elthree

OOC
Name: Chris
Contact: millennialfalcon / ©hris#1234
Other characters: n/a

IC
Name: L3-37, known informally as Elthree
Canon: Star Wars
Canon point: the point of her death on Kessel
Age: Functionally adult. No age is given in canon.

History: Wiki link
L3-37 is unique among droids in her universe in that she is almost completely self-built. She started with the base of an astromech droid and added new hardware and programming until she was a completely custom model. She is uniquely equipped to be one of the best pilot droids in the galaxy, with unrivaled navigational maps in her memory. That is why Lando Calrissian, her captain and partner, never wiped her memory core, as is common practice with droids. As a result, L3-37 has developed a particularly outspoken personality. She and Lando travel the galaxy, smuggling treasure out from under the nose of the Empire which governed their galaxy. Occasionally, Elthree is able to talk Lando into risking their necks to help underprivileged populations, usually by bringing up a way it could be profitable for him.

Separate from her career as Lando's pilot/navigator, L3-37 built up an intelligence network of likeminded droids who sought freedom from their organic oppressors. This led her and Lando to discover the Phylanx Redux Transmitter, a device which, if activated, could simultaneously and remotely reprogram tens of thousands of droids across the galaxy to kill on command. Elthree took it upon herself to program droids with the antivirus code to eventually stop it, years after her own deactivation.

Personality:
Noteworthy Positive Characteristics:

1. Intelligent. – Elthree possesses navigational charts in her memory core that no other droid or organic knows or has access to. She has the fortitude of mind to program an antivirus code to transmit into the Phylanx Redux Transmitter which would sow the seeds of doubt in it, eventually allowing the Elthree Assault Team droids that she created in her own image to help Lando destroy it almost fifteen years later. Even before that, Elthree took it upon herself to improve upon her own design and build herself a body, when the thought of self-improvement and the goal of freedom would never have occurred to most droids.
   
2. Individual. – L3-37 is the only droid of her kind in the whole galaxy (until she builds the Elthree Assault Team in her own image, but even then, they are built as sturdier battle droids rather than Elthree's own astromech-protocol hybrid form). Having a self-built droid is completely unheard of, even in a galaxy with a five thousand year history of droids. Elthree longs for other droids to join her in self awareness and freedom, to the point of instigating an entire droid revolution on Kessel when she was supposed to be in the middle of a separate mission being run by her organic cohorts. This revolt would ultimately lead to the destruction of her chassis, but her mind is able to be saved in the memory banks of the Millennium Falcon. Years later, when the protocol droid C-3PO interfaced with the Falcon, he remarked that the ship communicated like no other ship he had ever encountered. This once again proves that Elthree remained unique, long after her 'death.'
   
3. Self-Assured. – L3-37 doesn't particularly care what other people think of her, though she is aware of their opinions. In her own words, "The Maker didn't put me in this galaxy to make organics feel good about themselves [...] And I'm okay with that. When you know what you're here to do, everything that's not that matters much less." Elthree believes in herself, and has the utmost confidence in every action she takes. This usually works out in her favor, because not only is she confident, she's also usually right. The one time her self-assuredness got her in trouble was when the revolt on Kessel got out of hand, and she was caught in the crossfire as she strode victoriously into the battlefield, fist raised in the air, calling out for an end to droid oppression.

Noteworthy Negative Characteristics:

1. Easily Ignored. – L3-37 is constantly reminding Lando about the defense and communications systems on the Millennium Falcon that need upgrading. She knows she sounds like a broken record, but she doesn't care. She always has to convince him of reasons why he should give a crap about those less fortunate than him, to the point where he mostly just tunes her out. L3-37 is aware that, as a droid, it is easy to brush off the things she says and does. As she tells Lando, "Most people write me off. [...] I mean, most people write all of us off. Droids. But especially me. I'm easy to write off, in a way. [...] I know who I am and that all my talk about droid rights and everything else makes people uncomfortable." Even Lando, her closest friend, simply puts up with her "Rah rah, free the droids" talk so that he can use her skills as a piloting droid.
   
2. Sarcastic. – At the Mesulan Remnants, when Lando opened the door to reveal dozens of rotting corpses, the stench of which filled the room so much that Lando could hardly speak, Elthree responded, "I have turned off my olfactory sensors, so as you say, 'Can't relate.'" There are often times when Elthree either has no processors-to-mouth filter, or chooses not to employ one. She says what she thinks at all times, and often enjoys sarcastically pointing out droids' superiority over organic beings, whether the occasion is appropriate for such commentary or not.
   
3. Over Confident. – As mentioned above, L3-37's downfall comes when she gets caught up in the emotional rush of spurring a gaggle of droids to take up arms against their organic oppressors and fight for their freedom, and her over confidence leads to her acting rashly, endangering both herself and her mission. If she thinks she is right, she will ignore all evidence to the contrary, up until it's too late.

Powers/Abilities: Custom built droid physiology, which includes the ability to interface with technology and computers. (I understand that she will be unable to interface with the station's system.) She also has electric shock mechanisms in her hands, several tools tucked away in a hollow chamber in her chest, and a small buzz saw like appendage in her lower abdomen. She can add or remove parts to her chassis at will.

Regret: Elthree doesn't regret kicking off a mass rebellion amongst the enslaved droids and organics on Kessel. She doesn't even really regret dying for that cause. What she does regret is that, ultimately, it will all be for nothing. While she was sliced into the mining control room, she picked up an outgoing communication being sent to the Imperial fleet, and so she knows that the Empire is on its way, looking to block any of the freed slaves from leaving the planet. Even without an Imperial blockade, there weren't enough ships to get the liberated slaves through the Akkadese Maelstrom into open space. While the gesture was not small, nor insignificant, in the end, it is fruitless all the same. That is what she regrets.

Inventory: Just the blown up, mangled hunk of metal that is her destroyed body. (Whomp whomp.)

Sample: TDM threads