The Creation of SH3-1LA

**THE DROID BUILD ( The creation of SH3-1LA )**

CLOSED HOUSE TOLLERE RP

//The Ventrix//

156 ABY

IC- The Iron Born of Tollere

Apprentice Terrogate stands in the main hangar bay of the Ventrix and smiles a wide toothy grin… Though not leader of the house the Artifex had been successful in gaining permission for a house workshop that he was very excited for. Linking his personal comlink into the house com system frequency he sends a message to all members of Tollere.

“Attention all Iron Born of the honourable house Tollere. This is Artifex Terrogate, please attend the main hangar bay and board the house Tollere troop transport vehicle TAX-13 with your pre-selected blueprints of your droid you wish to build”.

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Once the last remaining house members had boarded TAX-13 Terrogate signals the ship to depart and they set course to one of the six Tollere planet ships the ‘Frentis’ where the Artifex had set up a temporary workshop.

Once landed the near 7 foot broad, muscular Cathar addresses his superiors and peers.

“My brothers… long have you served our noble house. I see you no longer as housemates. I see you as my Ironborn brothers. In that spirit I would like to thank Lord Solus, Oberleutnant Deleritas, Capo Reatith and Leutenant Shadowsun of our house leadership for allowing us to take part in this house project.

As we have spoken about we will today be developing and building our very own personal droid to keep as companions once completed. We are extremely lucky that our very own Knight Shadowsun is an accomplished droid builder and will be on hand to help in our builds”.

All droids except combat based droids or PROXY droids are acceptable as long as you can properly write your building of them.

Here” \*gestures to the workshop they all stand in..”you will find everything you need, parts.. welders.. electronics.. paint. The lot. I’m very excited to see your builds. We have the workshop for a week, then we will then shut down the project. Good luck my brothers.

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Terrogate excitedly moves to the rear corner of the workshop. It was a large space equipped with custom welding equipment, electronics and a full computerised design board hooked up to a visual display, a laser cutter and a precision 3D engineering cupboard which was a large magnetized clear cube with precision lasers. Basically if you could load the logic into the design board and had the piece of metal to suit.. you could make literally anything.

In the corner was his pre-ordered materials sitting in large wooden crates, large plates of heavy lamina steel coated durasteel, kilometres of wiring looms and boxes circuitry. 50 meters of hardened metal cored and mechanically protected flexible hose and clamps. Ball joints and fixings. Metal mesh which would provide ventilation to the internal structure. A Tranlang 3 communications module, a Synth tech AA-1 VerboBrain and two able eyes. Along with this solid chunks of the special alloy specifically designed for actuators and servo motors.

Terrogate takes his schematic data disk and inserts it into the computer board then uploads the design brief into the computer. The design board fires up and on the visual screen a fully 3D visuals of his custom droid appears as well as a special file named servo//CustSH3-1LA.exe

Terrogate uploads this then places the first piece of servo motor into the engineering cupboard, the magnets picking up the block of alloy and suspending it in the air, he then closes the door and hits the start button. This would take the lasers some time and there was much to do. The custom made servo motors coupled with the programming he would set in to the actuators would see his droid rely heavily on it's massive arms and make it act like a (\*Silverback Gorilla). Which would suit its purpose of being a transport as well as a lifting droid. Once he himself was promoted it was his wish to upgrade the droids base programming and modulators to suit a security droid/transport purpose.

Terrogate gets to work welding and positioning the wires within the flexible conduit. It was tiring work and he had barely finished completing the legs when his servo motor custom parts were finished. He places the next block of alloy into the engineering cupboard and begins the process again.

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Several hours later Terrogate, now even at nearly 7 feet tall, finds himself on a set of large steps with a cold fusion welding tool in one hand and a hydro spanner in the other. The arms and chest and torso were now completed with the steel mesh internals that allowed critical ventilation for the droids inner core.

Terrogate had done and installed multiple custom alloy cuts and he also had inserted the Tranlang 3 communications module and Synth tech AA-1 VerboBrain chips into the design board and had loaded up the desired programming requirements. Both were set to their lowest potential to allow basic communications across a vast database of languages, and a unique personality but one of servitude with almost no AI.  Terrogate chose these as they would be able to be upgraded at a later date to the most cutting edge of droid technology in thought matrix and communications. Meaning SH3-1LA could be programmed to suit any role he needed once the time came, from security to human/cyborg relations to HK if he really wanted. Although the thought to weaponize this large tank of a droid both excited and scared him a little. Particularly if it's AI was set to its highest level and developed an attitude so he made sure that he preprogrammed into her brain microchip the fact that he was indeed her master. Just in case.

The voice modulator was designed to sound like a middle aged female but at this level it would speak after saying what kind of speech it would deliver. The base of it's speech would follow one of the following 4main tiles.

[Response]....

[Question]....

[Statement]....

[Acknowledged]....

Terrogate sets the primary programming to that of a Lifter Droid but also had worked in a sentient transport function into the function matrix. Allowing Sheila to be ridden without shaking him off and then trying to pick him up as soon as he climbed on.

Terrogate still standing on the ladder climbs down and calls the small crane operator over. Carefully they secure the heavy large rounded shoulders section and position it onto the droid. Terrogate climbed back up the ladder quickly with tools in hand and went back to work securing the fixing bolts and connecting the wiring looms and hose.

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Some time later the Cathar sits at the desk eating his dinner, he was sweaty and his muscles ached. The droids plating was extremely heavy even for him, twice he had to use Telekinesis and even Force Valor to charge his muscles with the energy of the force to lift and position some of the chest and back sections. On the workbench was the final piece of the build. The large jet black head of the droid. Terrogate finishes his food then finishes up connecting the wiring of the eyes. Pressing a small button on the back of the droids head a small tray ejects with several slots for circuit chips to be installed. The Cathar picks up the micro chips from the tray on the table and installs the programming, voice modulator, memory core, logic matrix, communication and internal sensor chips into the appropriate slots and then presses the tray back closed.

Before his dinner Terrogate had arranged a boom lifter to arrive for this part as dropping the head would undo everything he had completed so far, and he would need both hands to connect the wiring, hose and also the finding bolts.

Terrogate climbs onto the boom and uses TK to lift the control until he is at the correct height of about 3 meters and then gets to work placing and connecting the head.

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A short time later Terrogate finally has everything connected and removes the restraining bolt he had fixed to stop the droid becoming active too early and the bright blue glow of her eyes light up. ”[Statement].. Greetings I am SH3-1LA, lifting and personal carrier droid.” It says in a female yet robotic voice. Terrogate smiles a wide toothy grin as Sheila looks at him. ”[Question].. How may I be of service today Master Terrogate?” Sheila continues. ”Yes, just 1 thing for now.. Please turn around.” he says. ”[Acknowledged].. Turning now Master Terrogate.” she says turning around. Terrogate then removes two 4” round metal round foot pegs from his pockets. Their ends were threaded as were 2x 4” round empty sockets on SH3-1LA’s back. Terrogate lowers the boom again to the right height and screws in the pegs. Then without waiting.. He climbs off the boom, and onto Sheila's back. ”Let's go see how the others are doing,” he says to Sheila. ”[Acknowledged]” says Sheila and they walk over to see how the other Tollere iron born are doing with their projects.

Primary Programming 1

Servos / Actuators 2

Voice Modulator 1

Chassis 2

Memory Core 1

Sensors 1

Logic Matrix 1

Color: Jet Black / Blue eyes

Movement: Feet / hands.

Name / Serial designation: Sheila / SH3-1LA

Height 4.2 Meters fully upright.

Weight 4 Tonnes.

Tranlang 3 communications module, Synth tech AA-1 VerboBrain, Laminasteel coated durasteel, colour Jett Black, Weighing 4 tonnes, has foot pegs on its upper back and is able to be ridden, SH3-1LA stands 4.2 meters tall (when upright), has purposefully designed servomotors that allow it to move like a ((\*Silverback Gorilla.))