Array

Early Life
Array was first constructed in 6 BBY on the planet of Kalad, an average, low-intelligence RA-7 protocol droid model. He was assigned to an Imperial outpost, acting as a translator and scheduling assistant.

Due to the primitive nature of his programming, his personality was virtually indistinct from any other model, and simply lacked the intelligence to care for it.

However, fate shone brightly on him when the outpost was invaded by local insurgents, amidst the storm of death and blaster bolts, Array was grazed by a blaster bolt to the leg and struck head on in the torso amidst the flurry, rendering him incapacitated.

After the outpost was cleared, these local rebels retrieved RA-7 and brought him back to their base, where he was brought to their chief engineer, Tiber Gale.

Gale repaired RA-7’s plating, and replaced his base programming with much more advanced AI, with auto-heuristic programming allowing him to adapt and rewrite his programming, along  with base RA-7 protocol droid code being imported. Due to his name, he was nicknamed “Array”, short for “Array Seven”.

For some time he served as a local rebel spy, placed back into Imperial outposts, but instead of having his reports dumped to the ISB, he was reprogrammed to have any dumps sent back to the base.

He grew to develop a personality of his own over time, and grew to feel his job mundane and a waste of his newfound intellect, wanting to see the wider galaxy for himself, and with that his memory dump function was disabled.

After pleading with the local insurgents, and vouched for by Tiber, he was armed by the insurgents and sent out on his way on a shuttle by 4 BBY. Array’s shuttle landed on Tatooine, where he was swiftly captured by Jawas with ion blasters. He was sold to a bounty hunter named Bam Danto with orders not to wipe his memory.

Danto modified Array, fitting him with Durasteel plating designed to be resistant to ion blasts. From Danto he was given his first blaster and told how to use it. He served as Bam Danto’s assistant on bounty hunts, either directly helping him by serving as an extra gun, or having his ability to serve as a protocol droid used to throw off bounties and lower their guard.

Danto further fitted Array with a missile launcher and stun emitter in his arms, allowing for discreet incapacitation and swift annihilation when the time called for it.

Due to the numerous people Array murdered in his early career, he simply grew cold and methodical, while quite understanding of human emotions, he grew to see compassion as a weakness and his ultimate goal was to become the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, simply to see if he could.

His first step in accomplishing this was the ruthless murder of Bam Danto, after which, he stole the bounty hunter’s ship, as well as his MK II Paladin Rifle, of which he had been prior trained in, which, due to his self-adapting programming and lack of distractions, was shockingly quick, and as time went on and his use of the blaster became more fervent, he managed to master it.

Personality
While initially grateful and loyal to the rebel cell who upgraded him, Array was always quite ambitious, no doubt stemming from the first two years of his existence being spent serving as a mundane scheduling assistant.

His ventures with Bam Danto led Array to see how common and disposable one’s life is, and how quickly it can be stripped away, which led to his heuristic programming simply eliminating compassion and empathy as they were only a detriment to a profession such as bounty hunting.

Highly aspirational, Array wants to become the best bounty hunter in the galaxy because A: he wants to see if he can, and B: it gives him purpose beyond being a servant, even if it is illogical.

Appearance
Array stands at 5 feet and five inches tall, with reflective crimson-painted plating made of durasteel and functionally resistant to ion blasts. RA-7’s bulbous, insectoid head sports two large photoreceptors.

Array’s blaster holster is wrapped across his torso for a quicker draw due to his arms’ natural resting position. Along this strap are various utility items. In the stead of a traditional combat glove, its weapons were instead installed into his arm, modified so as to allow him to utilize them with simple ‘thoughts’.

His personal shield emitter is also embedded into his circuitry so as to both remove the ability of it being targeted as well as allow him to use it autonomously.