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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 2287824" data-attributes="member: 1308">Actually, what AotC proves is that the battle droids have CPUs in their heads, but still recieve a majority of their combat commands via the big antenna pack on their backs. Threepio's own nature was being overridden by the command pack, while the BD-head on his body was trying its best to keep up with combat but completely ineffective.It sounds like battle droids have basic independent droid brains, but get the majority of their combat tactics and abilities via the uplink to the command ship. And, by default, when their signal is lost they are disabled (probably to prevent them going berserk and shooting everything in sight).Now, since the head was working without an antenna pack, we can assume that the droid brain is perfectly capable of operating without a command signal. It just lacks command structure and possibly many combat abilities. This explains the command structure as well: the local 'commander droids' can give orders for localized situations, while the main command ship handles the overall tactical processing and major orders.From that concept, you could say that you have a battle droid that was re-activated after the Emperor's orders to have them all shut down. Without a command signal, he has no real purpose... and has to find his own.The problem being that combat droids are a somewhat grey area in the Empire. IIRC, they're illegal to own, but free combat droids are allowed to run their own lives (until someone decides to kill them). So, your combat droid would have to be looking over his shoulder all the time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Could be fun. Let us know if it works out.</blockquote>

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