Eighnite

> "I am not capable of real emotion. No matter how hard I try to pretend that I'm as human as you are, I know that I never will be. I'm an artificial robot without the capability of being that, so I know that these feelings I have had were all fake. I can tell that, you did not think of me the same way I thought of you. You are my best friend. You are my, only friend."
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OOM-819, or **Eighnite** was a B1 Battle Droid that served during the Clone Wars and the early days of the Shift. During a mission on Scipio, Eighnite was captured by Republic spies and was dismantled for any information. During this period of time, they tampered with his AI, and by the time he was recovered, he had become self-conscious.

## Biography

### **Time In the CIS**

#### **Creation and Servitude**

Eighnite was one of the many B1 Battle Droids that was created in the Geonosis droid factories for the purpose of serving the Separatist Droid Army. He was present during the Battle of Geonosis at the beginning of the Clone Wars, and was also a participant in several other battles, usually playing a smaller role such as a patrol unit.

#### **Reborn**

During the second year of the Clone Wars, Eighnite was assigned for patrol duty at a Separatist Outpost. As he was surveying his patrol perimeter, Republic spies captured the droid and brought him back to a nearby area in hopes of salvaging information. They tampered with his programming and Artificial Intelligence, replacing chips and inputting new routes and commands until his interface was completely different. Before they could destroy the droid, the Clones were ambushed by the CIS, who brought OOM-819 back to the outpost. The droid seemed to be in proper working order when they brought him back, so he returned to his patrol duties.

He remained at the outpost for another week, but unbeknownst to the droids around him, he was slowly becoming more and more self-aware. After the week had passed, OOM-819 took his blaster and ran away from the outpost, eventually finding a ship and carefully piloting himself away from the planet.

### **Droid Gone Rogue**

#### **Starting a New Life**

The first thing Eighnite did after escaping was landing on a nearby system to steal a uniform and voice modulator in order to disguise himself. He ventured on risky journeys throughout the city on the planet, hiding from any onlookers. It was during this time he developed his understanding of how he perceived the world, how he perceived the Clone Wars, the Separatists and the Republic.

#### **Becoming a Bounty Hunter**

Eventually, Eighnite travelled to Coruscant in pursuit of some form of work to sustain income for fuel. Once he had arrived on the planet, he did some exploring and decided to enter a bar, which he found was full of bounty hunters. Knowing that he knew how to handle his way around a blaster, he decided to try his shot at becoming one, and picked up a few bounties around the cityscapes. During this time, he would buy Mandalorian armour and a grappling hook, becoming a reasonably respected local hunter in the area. The more time he spent as one, however, the more he began realising how morally inept it was, and broke aspects of the bounty code multiple times, enough to anger his contractor.

#### **Encounter With Wolffe**

Eighnite was making his way to a bar on Coruscant to pick up a bounty when he encountered a riot going on through the streets nearby the Military Base. The riots were comprised of citizens from the Lower Levels, who were protesting that the Republic do something for it's people, and about the recent Shift. Wolffe and a group of Clones, who were in the area, were sent to deal with the riots. It quickly evolved into a terrorist attack, as after Eighnite briefly began discussing the situation with Wolffe, explosives went off, and the nearby ground turned into a slope that lead down into the nearby Lower Levels entrance. Wolffe and Eighnite plummeted down, and together managed to survive and find a speeder to steal and use to get back to the surface. Commander Bone's legion was sent to finally put the riot to an end as Wolffe and Eighnite flew back up. Eighnite personally thanked Wolffe and Bone for their efforts, recognising that Clones and Battle Droids were almost identical to each other, and were only enemies because it was deemed so by the opposite factions. After Eighnite returned to his journey to the bar, the riots came to a grizzly end, with each protestor killing themselves.

When Eighnite reached the bar, his contractor gave him the most recent bounty puck that he had asked for, and then realised it was for Commander Wolffe. Eighnite left the bar with the puck, not wanting to carry it out, unsure of what to do.

### **On the Run**

#### **Meeting Aurin**

After receiving the bounty, Eighnite stood outside an alleyway to think. That's when Aurin, a slave from Zygerria who had just escaped, landed her stolen ship and exited the vehicle. Eighnite and her had a small aggressive back and forth after she suspected he was a bounty hunter.