General Defense Unit battle droid

The General Defense Unit battle droid, abbreviated to the GDU battle droid, was an upgraded model of former battle droids in service to the Hutt Empire. Adapted and improved by Hutt Doctor Lucius Stark, with the funding of the Hutt Empire, the droids wore experimental armor created by the Phoenix Corps, which Field Marshall of the Hutt Empire, Venator Furtificus, had destroyed and raided prior to the GDU battle droid's creation. GDU droids were used exclusively for protection of important Hutt figures such as Chairman Gorrbag, and for state security, and were not sold as retail models.

Characteristics
Doctor Lucius Stark, of the Hutt Empire, was comissioned to implement a security droid program. However, Stark felt that sentients had greater innovation when compared to droids, and so implemented them with Artificial Intelligence technology. The frame of the battle droids was better protected than it's predecessor, the former defense models Stark had upgraded, the General Defence Unit model using the experimental armor of a former independent faction called the Phoenix Corps.

Small laser cannons were mounted on the wrists of the General Defense Unit battle droids, due to the fact that they were incapable of holding the blaster weapons favored by most bounty hunters in the galaxy at the time. General Defense Unit battle droids came primarily wearing silver armor, however for parades or military functions they could be fitted with golden armor, which was less strong and more likely to tarnish, but was considered by many to be more aesthetically pleasing. The droids all were built with a code that allowed Hutt Chairman Gorrbag or Field Marshall Venator Furtificus of the Empire to override their commands and issue them with new ones from afar.

Programming
The General Defense Unit battle droids were programmed with reasonable artificial intelligence, being able to selectively choose targets from an array of those it was commanded to kill and those it was not commanded to kill, thereby differentiating between friend and enemy. The General Defense Unit droids were able to speak binary, and so interface with a computer terminal. Despite the artificial intelligence, the droids were not programmed to speak, and instead responded, when asked a question, with a nod to symbolise affirmative, and a shake of the "head" part of the model to symbolise negative.

General Defense Unit droid's were not programmed to feel any compassion whatsoever, in order to be able to kill or maim easily and with little internal trouble. The droid's were inherently programmed with a degree of weapon's training in the style of the Hutt Empire.

History
General Defense Unit battle droids were designed as a replacement to sentient guards for protecting people in positions of power. The droid's creator, Doctor Lucius Stark of the Hutt Empire, felt that sentients were too likely to betray their masters and kill them for further credits, whereas a droid would not be able to do so. After Field Marshall of the Hutt Empire, Venator Furtificus, destroyed the Phoenix Corps and raided their assets, Stark had access to the Phoenix Corps' experimental armor in addition to the wealth of the Hutt Empire. Using these resources, he created the General Defense Unit battle droid series, for protection of important figures in the Hutt Empire. The droids were often seen around the Hutt capital planet of Nal Hutta and it's moon, Nar Shaddaa.

Behind the scenes
The General Defense Unit battle droids were first created by author, Thomas Rattim, for use on the Star Wars Role Playing site TheStarWarsRP.Com. Rattim, as head of the military of the Hutt Empire in the Role Play, created them for defense of key persons through another of his character's, Lucius Stark. The droids were created as Non-Player Characters, commonly abbreviated as NPCs, meaning that they did not have a profile and were instead used only occasionally and for minor roles in Role Plays, by multiple users.