HK-50

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HK-50
Droid type	Assassin droid
Manufacturer	G0-T0
Gender	Masculine programming
Height	1.80 m
Sensor color	Yellow
Home planet	Telos
Master (owner)	G0-T0, HK-47
Affiliation	The Exchange

"Mocking Query: Coorta? Coorta? Are you dead yet?" — an HK-50 unit

HK-50 is the name (and model number) for a series of fictional characters from the 2004 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. The HK-50 series of droids are based on the earlier HK-47 assassin droid from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Like their progenitor, these droids possess incredible linguistic skills and highly sadistic tendencies. The primary function of the HK-50 droids, as they state it, is to "facilitate communications and terminate hostilities." In accordance with the usual perceptions of Hunter Killer assassin droids, the best way to terminate hostilities is to kill everything present. HK-50 units are identical in appearance to HK-47, with the primary exception being that they are gray in color instead of HK-47's rusty orange. They also refer sentient species as merely "organics" instead of "meatbags" in HK-47's case, which infuriated the latter droid.

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Though much of the background story for the HK-50 units is missing from KotOR II, cut content that was later released by Obsidian Entertainment indicates that the HK-50 droids were manufactured in secret by the droid G0-T0 using the schematics used to created HK-47. How G0-T0 gained the schematics is still an unanswered question. It was intended that HK-47, while interrogating an HK-50 unit, would discover the hidden droid factory on Telos. The HK-50 units were programmed to hunt Jedi, specifically the Jedi Exile (the player character and protagonist of the game). It should be noted, however, that since the material in question is indeed cut content, it should not be considered canon information (falling under the category of fan-based speculation).

HK-50 assassin droids were often able to successfully pose as protocol droids and they infiltrated much of the Republic fleet in doing so. Negotiations where HK-50s were used to translate often did not conclude well, as their cruel and violent desires influenced their interpretations of the various spoken languages. The HK-50 units hidden in the fleet were looking for the Jedi Exile, who was believed to be the last of the Jedi. When the Exile became a passenger aboard the Harbinger, an HK-50 droid on board the Republic capital ship took note. The HK-50 unit forged orders that the Exile report to the medical bay for automated and mandatory injections. The Exile was injected with a dose of sedatives that would be lethal to a non-Jedi, but which would only render him/her unconscious. The HK-50 locked up the Exile and arranged a series of accidents aboard the Harbinger intended to disable it and allow for retrieval of the prize. The plans of the HK-50 were foiled when Kreia, flying in the Ebon Hawk, was brought on board the Harbinger and took the Jedi Exile. The Ebon Hawk had been pursued by and fired upon by a Sith capital ship. When the Sith ship was investigated, cloaked Sith assassins boarded the Harbinger and seized it. Kreia and the Exile escaped the ship on the Ebon Hawk, but the HK-50 unit tagged along.

The Ebon Hawk, severely damaged, made its way to the Peragus II Mining Colony. Once there, the HK-50 again posed as a protocol droid and arranged for a series of accidents to befall the facility. The Jedi Exile was again drugged into unconsciousness. Division among the miners about what to do with the Jedi (the Exchange had a large bounty out for Jedi) was manipulated by HK-50 to kill all of the facility's workers. HK-50 also corrupted the vocabulators of the facility's mining droids, allowing them to "mine" organics. To ensure that no one would be able to escape the facility, the HK-50 unit also took numerous steps to block off certain parts of the facility. The subtle manipulations of the HK-50 unit and the highly fatal results demonstrate the dangerous nature of the HK-50 model of assassin droids. Before escaping from the facility, the Jedi Exile and company destroyed that HK-50 unit.

After Peragus, the Jedi Exile continued to run into HK-50 droids throughout his/her travels. After the previously damaged and inoperable HK-47 was reactivated, it was able to discover that the HK-50 droids were tracking the Exile through a sonic imprint sensor based on the vocabulator of the HK-50 from Peragus. HK-47, wanting to track down the HK-50 droids and their source, suggested that the tracking device be left intact until the group was again confronted by HK-50 units. Because the HK-50 units were made from HK-47's template, he could not harm them himself due to his self-preservation protocols. HK-47 therefore had to rely on the Exile to fight the HK-50 droids and possibly capture one.

Though cut from the game due to deadline constraints, HK-47 was supposed to discover the location of the droid factory after interrogating a captured HK-50 unit. HK-47 would have gone to the factory located in the abandoned military base on Telos and infiltrated the sub level of the base that housed the HK droid factory. HK-47 would then go on to fight the HK-50 units within the base discovering such things like training facilities, droid manufacturing facilities, and schematic information about the HK-50 units along the way. HK-47 would then encounter the newest model of HK assassin droid, the HK-51. HK-47 would have then persuaded the HK-51 droids to help him after they saw him as their superior. With their help, HK-47 along with HK-51 droids destroyed the factory. These HK-51 units would later come to HK-47's aid against their manufacturer, G0-T0, in a final confrontation on Malachor V.

Like HK-47, the HK-50 droids have become fan favorites, in particular the one you encounter on Peragus, for his definition of what he does. He states "Master, assassin droids are merely durasteel spheres loaded with only the most archaic kill programs. The function I perform has been referred to as wanton slaughter."

[edit] See also

• HK-47

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