HK-80 "H-Katie"

HK-80 "H-Katie" character data created by Wikia user Dark-Lark.

Ten years after the Battle of Yavin, travel had become an ordeal. Between the Imperial Remnants, rising pirate gangs, and the relatively poor reactions of The New Republic caused travel outside The Core to be avoided at all costs. In response to this issue, Holowan Mechanicals sought to create the perfect universal Bodyguard Droid.

They chose to pursue this goal by using the software from the Separatist HK-77 model and implement their programming into their own custom chassis. To reduce the new "HK-80's" profile, they created humanoid constructs to better blend in with their clients, typically Humans or Twi'leks.

However, three flaws ultimately doomed the project for failure. Firstly, the existence of Replica Droids had become known well-enough to make the HK-80s' disguises redundant. Secondly, the exorbitantly high production cost made HK-80s unaffordable for even wealthy traders outside The Core. Finally, unbeknownst to the Holowan designers, remnants of HK-77 programming contained remnants of HK-47's programming, which often contaminated the models' personality and mannerisms, making them rude and hostile to organics (Or meatbags as they call them).

Without any clear path to profit, Holowan Mechanicals scrapped the project, and sold off the seven prototypes to wealthy Core nobles and crime lords. While the fate of six are unknown, the Twi'lek-based HK-80 (Designated "H-Katie") was acquired by a Mid Rim smuggler. H-Katie served as his personal guard for over a decade before his retirement, until his age caused him to retire, and also causing him to forget to perform Memory Wipes on H-Katie.

This time allowed H-Katie to begin access the dormant programming of HK-47, gaining a disdain for "Meatbags." This programming, however, heavily conflicted with her designated duties as a bodyguard, creating paradoxes within her processes.

Eventually, her owner died, and H-Katie began traveling in The Expansion Region, killing pirates and outlaws as she attempted to calculate her existence. She self-upgraded, making her already advanced systems even more state-of-the-art, but eventually this would come to an end. She was caught in an Ion-blast and was disabled and goes offline.

Now, H-Katie waits for her reactivation, ready to continue her programming, whatever that might be.