Droid Crisis of 33 BBY

## Background

The Droid Crisis of 33 BBY happened in the last year of the reign of King Jarred the "Thinker", who's son---King Alex the "Just"---would take over in 32 BBY. The droid crisis was actually the cumulative effect of 27 years of little regulated droid use within the Kingdom of Jod. While regulations existed, they were either ill enforced, not enforced, or regulators were bribed to ignore the growing issues.

Problems initially started with the political organization known as the Red Group (80 BBY to 30 BBY) within the Jod Royal Court, which purposed and passed the Droid Usefulness to Better the Jod & Kingdom Act in 60 BBY. The soon to be unleashed progressiveness of droids in workplaces, droid rights, and violence done by droids & to droids would wreak havoc in the Kingdom, causing untold unemployment in some sectors of the economy, a skyrocketing welfare state for the unemployed & underemployed, and unjustly inflating the value of college education verses the adequate paying jobs available for that education (inflating academic degree requirements for even the most basic unskilled labor jobs as well, forcing unskilled workers out of work). Problems reached a boiling point in 45 BBY and by 43 BBY, the Higher Profit-to-Employee Wage Act set regulations in the workplace on employee education verses job expectations & skill needed, as well as regulations on droids including enforcing ethical & safety programming for droids beyond the original act in 60 BBY and foring employers to have a 11-1 ratio of Jod employees to every one droid. Despite this, companies still found ways around the 43 BBY law and even by 35 BBY, what little progress was made by the 43 BBY act seemed like it had failed.

In 33 BBY, a computer virus infected the manufacturing world of Kalsink 3 and turned the mostly droid workforce against the Jod population on the planet. Even Kalsink 3's own considerable security forces, with security force aid & reinforcements from the manufacturing super world of Don, couldn't stop the rampaging droids. Only the arrival of the Jod Military Forces and the landing the King's Army in force on the planet covered by the Kingdom's Navy & Starfighter Corps every step of the way slowed and then stopped the rampaging droids. But the long and hard fought battle of over 2 years on Kalsink 3 left much of the world in ruins and both the Jod government and the planet of Kalsink 3 blaming each other for the destruction of massive infrastructure, cities, and civilians' jobs on the planet. Over 4.7 billion civilian lives were lost on Kalsink 3 before the rampage was ended. Despite a Jod "victory", Kalsink 3 is now a Restricted Travel Area with a military naval blockade around the planet; the status of the once glorious planet has been reduced to that of a Backwater World, as the military hunts down remaining droids and investigates military intelligence of a droid civilization and droids making droids.

The resulting crisis and the cumulative effects since the Droid Usefulness to Better the Jod & Kingdom Act in 60 BBY lead to the Right to Work & Droid Safety Act and Human Interaction Safety Protocol Against Automation Act of 30 BBY. To this day, no one knows who released the computer virus into the droids.