Star wars basilisk droid generator#

Granted, this version is still better than the total cop-out KotOR 2 took when it come to the Basilisk. My issue of sorts is the different mentality behind the creation. Of course, IвЂ™m not expectig an exact recreation of the original, since it wonвЂ™t be interesting if the artist donвЂ™t add their own spin on things. (Sorry if I sound a little heated, guess the original design grew on me in my Mando fanboy phase.) As the current design, I can pass this off as a more modern MandalMotors homage to the past while trying to be more practical to mass market. While having spindly cargo-legs does give it additional use, typical Mando warfare usually donвЂ™t see them carry anymore stuff than just the warrior themselves and whatever they have on them the stubby original legs I suspect is just there to rest the tail section during repulsorlift deactivation.

Star wars basilisk droid generator#

As for purpose, it has two main purposes: rapid deployment, something in line of a dropship and speed boost in a straight line to get to the battlefield as fast as possible all the while wreaking the most havoc with those archaic shockwave generator rods and if in atmosphere, low altitude air support, something more of a gunship than a fighter craft, soaking tons of damage as they tear through ground targets. One way to think of it is BesвЂ™uliik as their trusty steed and not a siege platform. Sure, itвЂ™s insane, but Mandalorians usually dislike relying on heavy machinery to do combat for them. Perhaps marginally less crazy than the original design, and hopefully cooler looking. But in either mode, it offers nowhere near the efficiency of dedicated surface or flying vehicles. Once under a shield, it can offer aircraft mobility via repulsorlift, though not starfighter performance. Walker mode is basically to slide under shielding and overawe infantry, or offer some level of mobility in poor repulsorlift environments. ThereвЂ™s some precedent in my older stuff with the Zeta carry-all, and I figure this was an older attempt at a combat version of the same basic idea.

The legs can either grab or walk, depending on the mode. To impose some sort of order on the design and the concept, I figured it was basically a flying Robotech style mech/fighter. Some of the art later got more functional looking, but still the idea seemed nuts to me. There were Mandalorians riding these droid like vehicles in vacuum without a cockpit, and the original was something that looked like a trilobite meets an Opee from the prequels, with unusable limbs that seemed to be there just for show. This comes from the Old Republic era comics, and in the original iteration were frankly totally insane.