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SpectorKnight — KOTOR III: Darth Machina

Published: 2013-05-18 02:12:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 1407; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 22
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Description In a surprising turn of events, I have taken the opportunity to finish something I've wanted to do for several years now; design the last member of the Twilight Sith from my good old Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic III story. My longtime watchers might be interested to know that this character was conceptualized, but never finished, until now.

May I present....

Darth Machina, Lady of Alteration
Species: Duro
Homeworld: Coruscant
Age: 40

"It is inevitable that your weak body will falter, unimproved one. And then I will end you with maximum efficiency."

The technically gifted and cybernetically enhanced Duro called Machina is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the Twilight Sith order's war-droid arsenal. She rarely communicates with the rest of the chosen Twelve Lords, preferring the company of her artificial constructs. But do not make the mistake of assuming she is in any way logical or reasonable. Darth Machina is as obsessive and unstable as any of her cohorts, fixating on the idea of achieving perfection through melding organic and machine parts to create greater, more powerful wholes. She mutters to herself as she works, suggesting improvements or criticizing her mistakes, and even displaying the warning signs of schizophrenia by referring to her Sith status as Machina, and relegating her failures to the identity of Kemura, her old moniker when she was but a lowly repair worker in the employ of the Czerka corporation.

Author Comments:
SpectorKnight:
"This character languished in the back corner of my mind for over four years, but now I've finally released her into the daylight. A cyborg Duro Sith droid engineer who fights with three pink-bladed lightsabers in what you can imagine must be a very unusual style. I love her. I hope you will as well.."

ZERO: "I got nothing"
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Comments: 21

TheCoreOfAllEmotion [2014-01-06 19:37:48 +0000 UTC]

I never expected to see any more of the Twilight Sith. She's excellent, as per expectation. The concept you've constructed for her, I like, especially. Wonderful show, my good gentleman.

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SpectorKnight In reply to TheCoreOfAllEmotion [2014-01-06 21:21:15 +0000 UTC]

KOTOR III remains our fan-work Magum Opus. I am amazingly proud of it, its storyline and its characters. I am also intensely bitter that it has a 000000.1% chance of ever being finished, but from time to time I do add a little more to it, like Darth Machina here.

I'm glad you like her. She's got a very solid design and concept IMHO.

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TheCoreOfAllEmotion In reply to SpectorKnight [2014-01-06 23:13:34 +0000 UTC]

I like Cyborgs and I really like Aliens in Star Wars getting equal treatment. Too much racism in Star Wars. Work on it a bit at a time, dude. It's how these things get done.

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SpectorKnight In reply to TheCoreOfAllEmotion [2014-01-07 00:37:35 +0000 UTC]

Star Wars has the distinction of having more cool alien races then any other sci-fi franchise combined. I do love that about it.

Working on things a bit at a time is how I handle most of my projects. I need to buckle down and focus on just one of them ones of these days.

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TheCoreOfAllEmotion In reply to SpectorKnight [2014-01-07 00:43:43 +0000 UTC]

I agree with that, fully, my friend. So many cool aliens worth using.

Focus on just one thing at a time? What about attention deficit...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xwSA…

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SpectorKnight In reply to TheCoreOfAllEmotion [2014-01-08 00:50:53 +0000 UTC]

Squirrel!

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TheCoreOfAllEmotion In reply to SpectorKnight [2014-01-08 01:01:21 +0000 UTC]

I wish I could post pictures in comments, like I can on Facebook.

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Xephinetsa [2013-05-20 04:20:46 +0000 UTC]

Well, she's certainly interesting! It's not often that you see Duro characters. I love the fact that she fights with three sabers.

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SpectorKnight In reply to Xephinetsa [2013-05-20 17:46:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I did my best to come up with unique ideas for these characters

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Xephinetsa In reply to SpectorKnight [2013-05-21 02:12:23 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. c: And you succeed.

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cptmeatman [2013-05-18 03:24:22 +0000 UTC]

What's this? More Kotor? *crawls hesitantly out of hole and hugs*

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SpectorKnight In reply to cptmeatman [2013-05-18 03:39:57 +0000 UTC]

Apparently so. If I'd known you all missed it so much I'd have been back sooner.

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cptmeatman In reply to SpectorKnight [2013-05-18 03:45:20 +0000 UTC]

Sorry dude, but you're kinda stuck making Star Wars micros forever unless you want your followers to revolt and hunt you down to force you to make more. *shrugs*

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SpectorKnight In reply to cptmeatman [2013-05-18 04:08:18 +0000 UTC]

I figured as much.

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surfersquid [2013-05-18 02:30:30 +0000 UTC]

Ooh, nice! Once again you prove to be awesome at character design. There aren't enough Duro characters in the Star Wars universe, especially not schizophrenic, split-personality mad scientist Sith.

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SpectorKnight In reply to surfersquid [2013-05-18 02:43:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I do my best to fill those obvious gaps in the setting.

Her design is something I thought up when wondering what further kind of lightsaber styles could be invented. Three-blade style would be very interesting to see in a fight, I think. And of course, it necessitated an extra arm, hence the whole robot/cyborg theme. And since I like Duro's, I made her one. And now you know the rest of the story.

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surfersquid In reply to SpectorKnight [2013-05-18 03:28:13 +0000 UTC]

Haha, awesome.

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Spider-Bat700 [2013-05-18 02:17:11 +0000 UTC]

Oh my...

...this may be the creepiest one yet. Evil bald woman with three arms...creepy.

PS: Does this mean you will be continuing your KotOR III stuff? Please say yes, I 'd love to see more.

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SpectorKnight In reply to Spider-Bat700 [2013-05-18 02:40:04 +0000 UTC]

Actually it does, in that I will try to complete abandoned designs and concepts for characters I never got around to finishing, like Machina here, as well as hopefully completing the grand synopsis of the story from beginning to end.

And yes. Creepy.

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Spider-Bat700 In reply to SpectorKnight [2013-05-18 02:43:34 +0000 UTC]

Hooray! This calls for some music...

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SpectorKnight In reply to Spider-Bat700 [2013-05-18 03:39:25 +0000 UTC]

Seems suitable.

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