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series. And there are a handful of droids like the pirate
lord ZI-ZO who have taken business into their own hands,
finding it more efficient to lead than serve.

SPECIES ABILITIES

Wound Threshold: 10 + Brawn

Strain Threshold: 10 + Willpower

Starting Experience: 1 75 XP

Special Abilities: Droids do not need to eat, sleep,

or breathe, and are unaffected by toxins or poisons.

Droids have a cybernetic implant cap of 6 instead of

their Brawn rating. In addition, after selecting their

career, a Droid Player Character may train one rank

in six of the eight career skills (instead of the usual

four). After selecting their first specialization, a Droid

Player Character may train one rank in three of the

four specialization skills (instead of the usual two).

Inorganic: Since droids are inorganic, they do

not gain the benefits of recovering with a bacta

tank, stimpack, or Medicine skill checks. Droids

do recover naturally by resting, as their systems

attempt self-repairs. Otherwise, droids need to

be tended to with a Mechanics check, using the

same difficulties and results of Medicine checks

for organic beings. Emergency repair patches can

be used to repair damage just like stimpacks are

used on organic beings. See page 220 for more

on droid repairs and healing. Due to their resilient

metallic construction, droids start the game with

one rank in the Enduring talent.

Mechanical Being: Droids cannot become Force

sensitive, nor acquire a Force Rating by any means.

Droids cannot use Force powers, and also cannot

be affected by mind-altering Force powers.

DROIDS AND EQUIPMENT

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roids do not typically wear clothing, and

many items of equipment that organics

would have to carry separately may actually be

part of a droid's body. For this reason, droids

are allowed to treat certain pieces of equip-

ment differently than other characters. For ex-

ample, if a droid purchases and wears armor,

the player can simply say his character has

upgraded armor plates on his body, or a rein-

forced outer covering. Likewise, he could have

an upgraded verbobrain instead of a datapad,

or an internal communications device instead

of a comlink (although many droids do carry

equipment such as datapads and comlinks).

GANDS

Gands are a mysterious insectoid species whose

"findsmen" treat tracking quarry as a religious duty.

They are exceptionally good at divining the location

of individuals through ritualistic methods that off-

worlders might consider backward and barbaric.

Physiology: Though prevalent in the fringes of the

Outer Rim, Gands remain a puzzle to xenobiologists.

Over a dozen distinct subspecies of the Gands have

been reported. All are covered in a dense chitinous

exoskeleton and reach a height at adulthood of about

1.6 meters. They have three fingers on each hand,

which are as dextrous as those of other humanoids,

allowing them to manipulate equipment designed for

five-fingered individuals.

Where Gands subspecies differ from one another is

in their respiratory biology. Most Gands who travel the

spacelanes do not seem to need to breathe at all. The

digestion of food in their stomachs produces the ammo-

nia necessary for their biochemistry. Wasteful byproducts

and extraneous ammonia are expelled through their exo-

skeletons. These Gands often emanate an unpleasant

methane musk. Other Gand subspecies possess actual

lungs and cannot produce ammonia through digestion,

instead requiring a special breathing apparatus.

Questions about Gand biology continue to go unan-

swered, since the Gand refuse to permit other species

to study them. Some xenobiologists conjecture that

Gand religious rituals dictate genetic manipulation,

which has produced many different varieties of Gands.

Society: Gands have a closed culture. What is known

about them is that religion and life are closely en-

twined. A gathering of elders called the Ruetsavii

observes the various religious sects that represent

the virtues of Gand life. Off-worlders are most famil-

iar with the religious sect known as the "findsmen."

These are the Gand who leave their home planet on

ritualistic hunts to catch prey and bring divine bless-

ings to their people. Many other sects are rumored to

exist, particularly in the fields of genetics, medicine,

and engineering, but their exact natures are unknown.

Homeworld: Sharing the same name as its species,

Gand is an Outer Rim world clouded in ammonia and

methane. Trade is handled through orbiting stations

as foreigners are rarely allowed on the planet's sur-

face. Those non-Gand who land on the world must

stay in the specially equipped Alien Quarters.

Language: Droids fare much better than well-trained

humanoid linguists in reproducing the clicks and chir-

rups of the Gand spoken language. Without the need

to intake breathable gases, most Gand lack the vocal

cords to make the sounds of Basic and other languag-

es. They must use droids or translation devices to con-

verse in groups that do not understand their language.

CHARACTER CREATION

EDCE OF THE EMPIRE