STOMP THE BOT

Legion Priority Target

One of the most difficult things a leej has to deal with is bounty hunters. Often well trained or well armed, sometimes both, the bounty hunters eking out a living on Galaxy’s Edge are usually as inventive in their tactics as they are ruthless. 

One particular trick small bands or even solo hunters like to employ is the use of bots as security. 

While finding black market Warbots or those with an HK designation can be like hitting the lottery, it hasn’t stopped scores of hunters from using off the rack models to get the job done. By modifying basic security drones with aftermarket bolt-on armor and getting a combat protocol upgrade via that slicer that sometimes does that sort of thing, bounty hunters can augment their ability to run operations without having to pay out of pocket for flesh and blood help.

Rigging the bots for deployment can be job specific, so legionnaires having to deal with a mercenary troop or bounty hunter that uses them need to run a recon to determine strength, deployment means, and status of the bots being used. Because although the bots might not be warbots, like any other machine, they are immune to fear and can lay bolts out just as quickly as their targets.

Break away bracelets or a trigger switch on the bounty hunter’s armor is the most common method of emergency deployment. When the bounty hunter is in trouble, they flip a switch and the bots run from the ship or structure they’re securing to work the threat. 

In Galaxy’s Edge Season 3, The Wanted, we see this scenario play out and the aftermath of dealing with an augmented bot threat.