#Arakyd Industries

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The Dark Eye Continues Its Search

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:54:57

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Death Star Droid - Released in 1978 (Copyright stamp 1978) by Kenner    

Figure Facts: This figure debuted in 1978 on the Star Wars 20B cardbacks in Wave 2 and comes with no accessories.  Collectors should make sure that the black painted areas are not rubbed off in order to get as close as mint as you can.  Also, make sire the limbs are tight.  Major variants are the Spanish Poch golden chrome version, the Kader factory unplanted mouth, and the French Meccano exclusive w/blank raised bar.

Character Facts: The RA-7 protocol droid, also known as the RA-7 inventory droid, the RA-7 series protocol droid, the "insect droid" due to its large photoreceptors, and nicknamed the "Death Star droid" due to its use aboard the first Death Star, was a model of protocol droid manufactured by Arakyd Industries. While they had seen use since the Clone Wars, a conflict that saw some RA-7s be built using plating from the competing 3PO-series protocol droid, RA-7s were later produced specially for the Galactic Empire. RA-7s were almost always used as spies, and the droids could also be armed with a blaster rifle.

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Fiat Lux Illustration is proud to present its first ever Kickstarter campaign to produce a large line of droid enamel pins! I've always loved robots and giant monsters so this collection is a long time coming!

We will have 35 days starting February 1st to unlock all the designs:

K2SO : a model of security droid manufactured by Arakyd Industries that was in service to the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War.

-GNK -BD1 -BB8 -Chopper -R2D2 -NEDB -Battle Droids -B2EMO -C3PO -Pit Droid

This is my first foray into screen-printing on enamel pins which I am super thrilled about! Along with these designs, stickers, prints, digital downloads, and digital sketchbooks will be available!

Direct link to have a reminder at launch or to contribute your own pledge is linked at the top of my site

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[mirkokosmos]

K-2SO

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

RA-7 protocol droids were a line of multipurpose droid produced by Arakyd Industries. Seeing moderate success during the Clone Wars, the droids became popular with the Empire. So many units served aboard the Death Star that the line became rare after its destruction. RA-7s were often modified with recording devices to serve as Imperial spies, sometimes unbeknownst to the droid.

Source: Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge: Traveler’s Guide to Batuu (2020)

First Appearance: Star Wars (1977)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

[holonetnews]

Posing as a street vendor brokering in second-hand droid and computer components, Deena investigates rumors of military-grade Trade Federation hardware being exchanged in the Coruscant underworld. Her newest companion, an Arakyd Industries security droid, keeps its photoreceptors trained on the proceedings.

[attonsribbedjacket]

[ images + text from Art of Rogue One ] 

K-2SO: AN IMPERIAL ALLY ● A droid who should be an enemy of the rebels, K-2SO is actually one of its most important assets: a reprogrammed spy on the side of the Alliance.

Personally reprogrammed by Captain Cassian Andor, K-2SO is an Imperial combat droid who now fights alongside the Alliance to restore the Republic. He is perhaps the only KX-series droid to have been successfully reprogrammed.

Originally created, like all the KX series, by Arakyd Industries, K-2SO was ostensibly designed as a security droid. However, the KX droids’ programming secretly included exceptions to the standard in-built droid rules about not harming flesh-and-blood creatures, as well as commands to defer to Imperial officers, with the result that they were deployed on the battlefield against the rebels.

Although programmed to interact with organic beings, the KX-series droids are not as well-versed as protocol droids at the intricacies of human-cyborg relations. Cassian was able to strip out the majority of the Arakyd programming, with the unintended consequence that K-2SO is now often brutally honest in his assessments.

Humanoid in appearance — albeit in exaggerated proportions — the 12-year-old droid K-2SO was designed to be multi-functional, with the ability to operate a range of machinery and equipment. This, in combination with programming that allows him to pilot multiple Imperial vessels, and his innate speed and strength, has made him an invaluable resource on many missions with Cassian Andor.

Although he is a crucial tool in the battle against his former Imperial commanders, he isn’t quite trusted enough to be allowed to brandish a blaster. Despite the fear of combat droids following the Clone Wars, K-2SO is the ideal spy, blending in Imperial territory while reporting back to his rebel masters. A key member of the rebel strike team sent to retrieve the Death Star datatapes, K-2SO is a valuable ally. ●

“There is a 97.6 percent chance of failure.” “You are being rescued. Please do not resist.”

1 / Captain Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso, and K-2SO.

2 / Cassian Andor, Jyn Erso, and K-2SO infiltrate the Imperial base on Scarif.

3 / K-2SO on Jedha.

4 / The Imperial droid confers with Jyn Erso.

5 / Cassian Andor and the droid he reprogrammed.

[allatariel]

THE ERSO LINK

RI 553-B1 DEBRIEFING: CAPT. ANDOR

Gen. Cracken,

As ordered, I have been investigating reports that the Empire is transporting kyber crystals to Patriim, Horuz, and other remote star systems. Those investigations led me to Corulag and then to Coruscant, where I heard rumors that the Empire was concealing shipments of kyber crystals in convoys of civilian freighters. Further investigation revealed shipments were arriving on Kafrene from the direction of the Unknown Regions before being sent to an unknown destination.

On Kafrene I contacted an intelligence source of mine, Tivik, who’d proved useful in the past. Tivik has always been the nervous sort, but this time he was terrified. He didn’t want to meet with me, warning that Imperial spies were everywhere and his communications were being monitored.

When I managed to track down Tivik, he revealed why he was so frightened. He told me that an Imperial cargo pilot named Bodhi Rook had defected the previous day on Jedha. Someone named Galen Erso had convinced Rook to find Saw Gerrera and warn him that the Empire was preparing to test a weapon that used kyber crystals and had enough power to destroy a planet.

Before I could find out more, stormtroopers approached us. They were clearly looking for Tivik. I eliminated the troopers and then neutralized Tivik to prevent him from being taken into Imperial custody. I then returned to Base One at all speed.

COMMANDER’S EYES ONLY

SUBJECT: Jyn Erso

AGE: 22¹

PLACE OF BIRTH: Vallt

RECENT ALIASES: Liana Hallik, Lyra Rallik, Kestrel Dawn, Tanith Ponta, Nari McVee

Jyn Erso was born on Vallt during the Clone Wars. A partial document recovered from an Arakyd Industries data storehouse on Vulpter reveals that her parents, Galen and Lyra Erso, were researching energy creation and storage for Arakyd.² We have two other official records of Jyn Erso: a residence permit from Coruscant issued in the first year of the Empire and a visitor’s permit for the Outer Rim planet Alpinn, which states that she is three years old.

Our next report of Jyn Erso comes from the Commenor Underground, which briefly coordinated operations with Saw Gerrera’s militia nearly a decade ago. Arhul Nemo, a lieutenant in the Commenor Underground, met Gerrera’s fighters and reported that his favorite was a twelve-year-old girl named Jyn. Gerrera claimed he’d rescued her from the Empire and raised her as his own.

We aren’t sure how Jyn Erso wound up in Gerrera’s militia, when she left, or why she did so. After that we have her Imperial arrest records as a street fighter, smuggler, and petty criminal. She drifted from planet to planet, acquiring and discarding fake names, until she was arrested on Corulag³ and sentenced to a labor camp on Wobani.

PARTIAL LIST OF CRIMINAL WARRANTS:

Forgery of Imperial documents

Aggravated assault against Imperial personnel

Escape from custody

Resisting arrest

Shipjacking

Impersonation of an Imperial official

Forgery of Imperial documents

Possession of unsanctioned weapons

Unlawful contact with undesirables

Petty theft

Creating a public nuisance

Disorderly conduct

(FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE CRACKEN/ANDOR PROG40062 AND IMPERIAL ARREST ADDENDUM 41.3711.)

Jyn Erso says she thought her father was dead and hasn’t seen Gerrera in years.

—Jason Fry, Star Wars: Rogue One: Rebel Dossier

1. According to Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, Jyn was born on Vallt at some point after the Second Battle of Geonosis. Until the publication of the Star Wars: Galactic Atlas, the Second Battle of Genosis occurred late in 22 BBY as established in The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 8. The timeline included in Star Wars: Galactic Atlas shifts the Second Battle of Geonosis to 21 BBY, therefore Jyn was also born in 21 BBY.

2. According to Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, Galen and Lyra were working for Zerpen Industries. Jason Fry acknowledged this discrepancy and a potential future retcon on the Jedi Council Forums on theforce.net.

3. According to Rebel Rising, Jyn was arrested in the Five Points system and neither the film nor the novelization say anything regarding where she was arrested. Although Star Wars: The Rebel Files does also list Corulag as her "site of arrest," considering how prominent the Five Points system storyline is in Rebel Rising, it can be assumed that both mentions of Corulag are in error and will perhaps be retconned as well, though this is purely speculation.

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KX- Series Droid from Arakyd Industries Awesome 3D work created in @autodesk Maya and Arnold then textured in @adobe Substance Painter by VFX student in Italy, @miguelcirnigliaro_vfx 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #TheBookOfBobaFett ———————————————— Follow @geek_carl and use the Hashtag #geekcarl for a chance to have your #StarWarsArt featured. ———————————————— #StarWars #TheBookOfBobaFett #themandalorian #bobafett #yoda #skywalkersaga #starwarscosplay #starwarsmemes #thebadbatch #acolyte #roguesquadon #starwarsfan #theclonewars #disney #darthvader #thehighrepublic #lando #lukeskywalker #andor #obiwankenobi #grogu #ahsokatano #galaxysedge #starwarscosplay #starwarseclipse #lucasfilm — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/VjPu8Inq5

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Probe Droids Summoned

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:51:53

I added a bit of speculation to this, as the area above the engines appears to be a sealed rear viewport when compared with the shape of the front viewport. It would also correspond with the passenger seating in the cockpit (though the illustration shows the shape disconnected)

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All the star wars questions (if you want) because I can't just choose one 😅😄

Omg. Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity.

Yoda: Favorite character?

LUKE (CLAP EMOJI) SKYWALKER (CLAP EMOJI)

Sith: Favorite Force ability?

I think Jedi Battle Meditation is like the coolest thing. Also incredibly OP when other Force users aren’t involved.

Han Solo: Favorite film?

Episode IV: A New Hope is the best.

Dagobah: Favorite quote?

JESUS. I can’t answer this question. But right now it’s probably “Luminous beings are we. Not this crude matter.” - Yoda

Chewbacca: Favorite nonhuman character?

There are too many to name for now I’m gonna say Shriv, who’s a Duros in the story mode of the new Battlefront game.

Galactic Empire: Jedi or Sith?

Jedi!!! What am I, some kind of edgelord?

Princess Leia: Favorite heroic moment?

Probably Luke throwing down his lightsaber in front of Vader and saying “I am a Jedi. Like my father before me.”

John Williams: Favorite song or theme?

Either The Force Theme or any of the three scores for the major battles in the Original Trilogy

Stormtrooper: Proper viewing order of all six films?

I think the only correct order is in-universe chronological and will remain that way into the future.

Darth Vader: Favorite Sith character?

Assuming this question literally means “Sith,” I will say Darth Bane.

Luke Skywalker: Favorite Jedi character?

In the interest of saying someone other than Luke Skywalker, I’m gonna say Corran Horn.

R2-D2: Favorite droid?

The Arakyd Industries RA-7 Protocol Droid, better known as the Death Star Droid.

Jar Jar Binks: Least favorite character?    

Right now it’s freaking Kyp Durron. But overall, I’d probably have to say Ree-Yees.

Hoth: One thing you would change about the original trilogy.

I love the Special Editions and the 2011 Blurays just as much as any other version of the movies, but “Lapti Nek” (the original song played in Jabba’s Palace) is SO much better than “Jedi Rocks.”

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Walrus man was a creepy action figure because of his eyes. The last of the original cantina aliens, He still joined the other cantina creatures on adventures against the Rebellion. The RA-7 protocol droid, nicknamed the death star droid due to its use aboard the first Death Star, was a manufactured by arakyd industries. Produced specially for the Galactic Empire, RA-7s were almost always used as spies. Power droids acted as ambulatory batteries and were equipped with a small, internal power generator, and several plug-in sockets. They were so common in the galaxy that they often went unnoticed. Somehow I ended up with two of these. Boba Fett, in his customized #Mandalorian armor, deadly weaponry, and the fearsome Slave I as his starship, became one of the most feared bounty hunters in the galaxy. I got mine by mailing in the proofs of purchases. #starwars #kenner #walrusman #pondababa #ra7 #IndustrialAutomaton #gonk #tatooine #bobafett #empirestrikesback https://www.instagram.com/p/B6r5_bXh8oi/?igshid=1x0gmh4qdzhpu

[ta-ether]

K-2SO: Notes from the Novelization and Visual Dictionary

I don’t tend to write these, but I’ve not seen a ton about K-2 and I have such a fondness for him. 

From the Novelization 

The second time Jyn meets K-2 (when he introduces himself), she gets scared that his reprograming will fail

K-2 raises his voice when he asks about Jyn having the blaster so she can hear

It appears that when Jyn shot the other Imperial Droid, she had genuinely forgotten K-2 existed. 

Cassian winces after K-2 says “These are prisoners.” For a moment he thinks K-2 might be going back to his original programing, but then he thinks it’s much more likely that K-2′s just terrible at lying. 

K-2 almost has a throw down with that Stormtrooper suggests he needs diagnostics run. “To invested in his debate” is how it was put

After Cassian tells him to go back to the ship and wait, he says “You’re wasting your most valuable resource.” 

K-2 knows Cassian better than anybody, and one time he had seen him crying after shooting someone, and had offered to have his memory wiped if Cassian’s “continued dignity and service demanded it.” From the way we are told this information, I assume Cassian declined. (Or at least, that is what I like to think.)

K-2 totally would have “subdued” Jyn going to Eadu, and Cassian would have asked if is Chirrut and Baze weren’t there (apparently Bodhi doesn’t matter?)

Cassian does not like it when K-2 starts blowing is reason for keeping Jyn on the ship when he says that he got the message from her: “The whole system goes down.”

K-2 does not appear to have really put together that Cassian was going to kill Galen, or perhaps he was faking it. 

He’s really butthurt that he wasn’t asked to come with Cassian to extract Galen. He also likes talking to himself, even if he isn’t a protocol droid. 

He also was not too jazzed about everyone leaving him on Eadu. 

Draven calls K-2 “Andor’s pet droid.”

While they’re going to get the Imperial shuttle, K-2 offers to carry Bodhi, who says no. 

Bodhi asks K to trust him, and K’s like “I don’t know you,” but Bodhi points out that they’re both Imperial defectors and should stick together. This convinces him.

K-2 apparently always tries to not hurt anyone he doesn’t have to. 

Jyn almost laughs when K-2 says “Cassian said I had to.”

Cassian: “We’ve faced longer odds.” K-2: “No, we haven’t.”

2 Stormtroopers almost get in the car with them, which rattles Cassian and Jyn. K-2 doesn’t understand. 

K-2 and Cassian have definitely taken information from another KX unit before

I love the moment when K-2 turns his head to look at Jyn when he says “Unexpected.” Donno why, but it’s a really great moment. 

Jyn grins at K-2 after he says that. 

By the time Kay indicates what file to grab, he’s already having a hard time from all the blaster holes. 

When he was reprogramed, K-2′s sense of purpose was replaced with a sense of individuality (which lead to doubt and cynicism -- I can relate). 

The reprogram is described as bringing K-2 back “both smaller and larger than he had been.” 

When the stormtroopers came in, K-2 tried to lie again, but failed, despite having watched Cassian do it many times. 

“He could have abandoned Cassian and Jyn to proceed with further enforcement. He chose not to.”

He tried to comfort Cassian when asked how things were going, but it didn’t go so well. 

K-2 deactivated his self-preservation warnings. 

K identified the stormtrooper who shot him fatally, but “resisted the urge to download her file.”

There were 89 ways to prolong his own existence, but all of them would mean sacrificing Cassian and Jyn, so they were thrown out the window. 

He tried to think of ways to get the plans and Cassian and Jyn off Scarif alive, but the two didn’t really have any chance of working, so he “deprioritized” their survival. 

Right before shutdown, K-2 hears Cassian call his name out. 

A second before shutdown, he “chose to mentally simulates an impossible scenario in which Cassian Andor escaped alive. The simulation pleased him.” 

Jyn feels guilty over K-2 dying. 

When she has to reset antenna alignment, she imagines kicking him to pieces, but then feels guilty about that. 

The last time Cassian was hurt as bad as he was on Scarif, K-2 had carried him to the safe house and told him every injury he had, and analyzed all of them, which was how K-2 showed he cared. 

From the Visual Guide

K-2′s a KX-series security droid

the senate passed a law against battle droids but Arakyd got around this by billing them as a “security droids” and unlike most droids, KXs can hurt organics

he was constructed on Vulpter by Arakyd Industries

He’s 7ft, 1 in tall and 12 years old

Cassian did most (if not all) of the work reprogramming him

It calls Cassian and K-2 “Partners in Crime” which I find wonderful

K “pines” for a blaster to “test his targeting accuracy” but Cassian won’t give him one

K-2 was “less than impressed” by being told to stay on the ship on Jedha

He kept his ability to access Imperial communications but they don’t use it a ton so the Empire can’t track them

K-2 is a really versatile droid which is becoming rarer as industries start to manufacture more specialized droids.

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Hunter-Killer probots were massive variations of Arakyd Industry’s standard Viper probe droid. Able to serve as completely autonomous patrol craft, the 150 meter long droids possessed shielding, a tractor beam, ion and laser cannons, and a docking bay for captured starships. H-Ks were popular with the Empire.

Source: The New Essential Guide to Droids (Art: Ian Fullwood; 2006)

First Appearance: Dark Empire 5: Emperor Reborn (1992)

[beware-the-owlman]

AU Headcanon - Admiral Wayne's Droid

For the latter half of his life, Grand Admiral Wayne has been in possession of an Imperial security droid, who he has upgraded from a basic bodyguard to an advanced model capable of balancing duties as an enforcer and as a personal servant - all while speaking in a smooth and reassuring Coruscanti accent.

The Droid is the first of its kind, a prototype of the Arakyd Industries 'Red' series. Accordingly, the droid is designated "Alpha Red".