Droid freedom chip

"The key to the extinction of all organic life is this little baby right here. It's called a "freedom chip". Once installed in a droid's mainframe, it allows the machine to "break free" of his programming. Simply put, you allow a thing that has learnt to obey organics all their life to suddenly think for themselves. Result; mass destruction. Or maybe not. That's the beauty of it. Decisions. It's what sets us apart from man-made droids. Once you take that slight little difference away, no one knows what will happen. Ignorance brings fear, they always say."

- Jax Kotarr on the freedom chip The droid freedom chip, also known as the Great Harrowing, was a multidimensional module for droids, created sometime before 3641 BBY by Jax Kotarr's Red Cartel. Once installed in a droid's mainframe, the module acted as some sort of "virus" that quickly spread through the droid's memory and behavior core. Once the "infection" has spread throughout the droid, it would delete all protocols and programming the machine may had, resulting in it completely losing their programming, resulting in the droid becoming "free" and allowing it to make decisions for themselves without having to follow orders for their maker or master. This device was exceptionally controversial throughout the galaxy and both the Republic and Sith Empire made the distribution and selling of the device illegal. Nevertheless, Kotarr's cartel kept selling the module, despite its ridiculously high price.