Rainboh Experimental Artillery Prototype Robot (REAPR) Project

 'These robots will be the new leaders of the separatist droid army.' 'They are too expensive' 'They are worth every credit.'

-Devaronian REAPR Manufacturer talking to Count Dooku

The Rainboh Experimental Artillery Prototype Robot (REAPR) was one of the most expensive and deadly battle robots throughout the Clone Wars Era. The REAPRs were originally built for the Separatist army, however after a mistake in their programming gave them a form of sentience, they all self-destructed due to information overload, except for one robot who later joined the Republic covert ops team Light Squad.

Characteristics
The original design of the REAPR came from the IG series Assassin Droid, but the design was modified and improved. The improvements included a bulky yet light, blaster-resistant body, autonomously adaptive and highly-intelligent programming, a personal repeating blaster concealed within the right arm and a computer interface arm concealed within the left wrist.

The REAPRs programming was designed so that the robot would never disobey an order, however if it noticed flaws in the command, it would fix them while trying to ensure that the desired goal was achieved. This inability to disobey was why the REAPR designers thought that giving the REAPRs voice boxes was unnecessary, as well as their silence making them more intimidating.

Biography
A Devaronian Separatist scientist who found remains of an IG series Assassin Droid used the droid’s design to create the first REAPRs in a secret Separatist laboratory on the planet Rainboh. They were supposed to be the improved version of the Droid Commando, and the Devaronian had hopes that the REAPRs would have the intelligence of a super tactical droid while at the same time having the firepower of a super battle droid.

 However, once the Devaronian showed Count Dooku and the Separatist council the REAPRs, they agreed against the scientist that, although powerful, the REAPRs where far too expensive to mass produce, and they therefore ordered him to shut down the REAPR project.

Enraged by this, the Devaronian finished five REAPR units and brought them online, with intentions of demonstrating to the Separatist council the worth of investing in the REAPRs by sending the robots on a mission to destroy a Republic Cruiser.

 However, none of this was able to happen, because when the scientist activated the REAPERs, they exploded after a few seconds due to information overload, killing the Devaronian and destroying the laboratory. The Separatists, however, ignored this and continued with the Clone Wars uninterrupted.

However, all the REAPRs were not destroyed. One REAPR, who failed to come online, survived the laboratory’s destruction. This REAPR unit was later found by a Chiss Bounty Hunter who reprogrammed it to do it’s bidding, as well as overcoming the enormous information intake it received when it was activated.

Later, this Bounty Hunter and the REAPR joined the Republic covert ops team Light Squad, and after Order 66 was issued much later, the REAPR powered down. The former Light Squad members think that the REAPR did this because it deemed itself, a war machine, useless in a time when there was no more war.

==  Special features ==

After the Chiss Bounty Hunter found the REAPR, it programmed it to share a technopathic link to the Bounty Hunter’s YT-2400 light freighter, the only one built during the Republic Era. The link allowed the REAPR to pilot the freighter better, fire the turret laser cannons automatically, as well as a number of other functions that the ship possessed.