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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 2287627" data-attributes="member: 10079">Well, I avoided commenting on your rant/essay before, so I guess I can do that now. While its well written and a good read, it doesn't actually prove all that much for the B1 droids being independent. The ONLY thing that could possibly work towards that is the whole 3P0/Battle Droid thing, but that doesn't really make sense anyway. It wasn't done to make technical sense...it was done for humour.Of course, since we don't know EXACTLY how droids work, we can't say what shows them to be independent or not...or even the location of their heuristic processors, which is what makes them 'independent' of a center control device. B1 droids are NOT built with these processors, and recieve all information from control ships/facilities. This can still explain the supposed 'individual' behavior, as we don't know how exactly the control ships work. For all we know, there's an individual part of the control ship dedicated to each of the droids, which would allow for the thing we see in the films. All of the droids thinking is NOT done by the droid, but at the control ship/facility.The Battle Droids are, essentially, walking remote control blaster rifles. They can 'think' and react to individual circumstances because of how the control ship/facility relays the information. And there wouldn't be a time factor, as the SW Galaxy instantaneous communication.As for Theed...its very possible that one control ship/facility only controls a certain amount of droids. Therefore, the droid control ship that was destroyed took out the majority of the troops on the planet, which 80-90% of were out fighting the Gungans. The others could have been under the control of another ship/facility. We've got no information that can prove or disprove this, just as we can't say exactly how things work. Remember, Battle Droids HAVE no independent processors of their own, so it could be that the entire droid is a reciever for the control signal. That could explain the whole 3PO thing, as the droid head would have taken control of 3POs body, acting like a restraining bolt with the control signal taking command through the head. This would work in reverse, too, if the entire body's are, essentially, recievers for the signal.Again, while you've definitly put some thought into this and its very well written, I can't agree with you. Your evidence is much more contradicatory to what we've seen in the movies, and when it comes to the d20 rules...the simple fact is that B1 Battle Droids don't have Heuristic Processors built into them, so they can't think, learn, etc. without a control ship/facility. Which is why I suggest just having a B1 droid with a Heuristic Processor(droid brain) built in. Remove the remote reciever, and put the processor in its place. That wouldn't be hard for a techie to do at all.</blockquote>

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