EBDE-1 elite battle droid

"When the first EBDE awoke he openly expressed his hatred for the "meatbags of the Union" and he desire to kill them all, he stated he wanted nothing more than to personal cut off President Williams' head to keep as a trophy. Whilst we did program him to be brutal and loving combat and killing, I am concerned about the potential for the development of psychosis within the current program. I recommend we tone down EBDE's bloodthirstiness to make a bit less psychotic and more pliable to our demands."

- A report by the TUED on the bloodthirsty personality expressed by EBDE-1/1, the first EBDE-1 produced

The EBDE-1 elite battle droid (Pronounced as both "Eb-dee" and "Ee-bee-dee-ee") was an elite model of battle droid producd by the Techno Union Earth Division, an autonomous branch of the Techno Union for use as an elite battle droid, bodyguard and assassin droid by the Confederate States of Earth, which was allied with the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Based on the ancient HK-50 series assassin droid to the last detail, the only real difference between the HK-50 and the EBDE-1 was that EBDE had a modified personality program which meant the EBDE series droids had unswerving loyalty to the Confederacy, whilst directing the HK-series' well-known hatred for organics towards the enemies of the Confederacy, the Union, specifically.

Even with this modified program the first EBDE-1 expressed his hatred for the organics of the Union and his desire to personally behead President Richard Williams of the Union and keep the head as a trophy, leading some in the TUED to express concern over the unit's bloodthirstiness and potential to develop psychosis, leading to a second version of the program being installed into subsequent EBDE-1s which reduced their murderous intent to merely killing their enemies, rather than expressing their desire to take the heads of their enemies as trophies.

The EBDE-1s were indeed effective in their intended roles, a single EBDE-1 was able to defeat squads of enemies by itself. The TUED improved the design by giving it an inbuilt particle shield, the model was the EBDE-1PS, this model was almost impregnable to the Union Army, which mostly used slugthrowers, during the Battle of Feldin's Field 10 EBDE-1PS' held a force of 200 Union soldiers.