Hopefully the "race" I decided to go with is fine.

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Name: R5-T1, though its creator and those it gives permission call it "Rusty".
Age: Has been active for 5 galactic standard years
Class: Smuggler
Home Planet: Coruscant, Jaren Kell's Workshop

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Appearance: R5's chassis was built in a manner reminiscent of a human skeleton, with as little bulk and as sleek as possible. Its full frame is colored with a mix of black and brown hues, and is built from lightweight yet sturdy materials, designed to resist blaster fire as well as mimick a nearly full range of human articulation. R5's head structure is the most unique thing about its design, however. Instead of a humanoid face donning its vaguely human head shape, R5 has a series of 4 optical sensors mounted in the general eye area, three smaller ones on the left, and one large one on the right. Instead of a mouth-shaped speaker, R5 has a large, plated speaker jutting out slightly from its head. In place of ears, R5 has a single antenna mounted to the right side of its head structure, which it uses to receive both analog sound as well as comms traffic.

Personality: R5-T1 is an odd sort, even for a droid. While most humanoid droids are preprogrammed with a unique personality that emulates a human, R5 was built differently. Installed in its personality matrix are the mental scans, memories, and history of its elderly creator, Jaren Kell. However, R5 currently lacks the ability to perfectly emulate its creator, and although it speaks with an accurate modulation of Kell's voice as a young man, R5's speech patterns are cold and specifically devoid of emotion. R5 refers to itself in the 3rd person as "this unit", and its vocabulator intentionally chooses words to convey no sense of personal emotion. This leaves R5 sounding more like a computer or more basic model of droid, though it does possess the ability to think and act independently.

History: Jaren Kell was an aging droidsmith and retired first mate of the [i]Queen of Krayt[/i], a smuggling ship that had won him his fortune and retirement. In his workshop in the upper levels of Coruscant, Kell was crafting what he considered to be his life's work: a droid, loaded with all his memories and mental acumen, but still capable of being its own individual. After over 5 years of work and devotion to this project, Kell was finally ready to activate the droid. Christening it "R5-T1" or "Rusty" as his old crewmates had called Kell, he flipped the switch. 

The project was a remarkable success, despite some intentional inhibitors that limited R5's emotion emulation and vocabulator. Kell managed to get R5 to receive nearly his entire life story in a matter of moments. After roughly a year of tests and trials and even simple conversation, Kell was ready to release R5 out into the world, though the droid itself was hesitant. After being asked about the emotion inhibitors, Kell explained to R5 that in order for the inhibitors to release, R5 would have to accumulate knowledge and experience beyond what Kell had programmed into him. R5 would have to become someone new.

When Kell decided it was time for R5 to go, he pulled a few strings, called in a couple favors and set up R5 with a place on the ship of an old crewmate of Kell's, a Rattataki woman named Ejoni.  R5 spent its first year learning the ropes with her, wheeling and dealing their way across the Galaxy. Along the way they ended up at odds with a Hutt named Zolto, someone they had conned a couple times and snatched jobs from under many a time as well. Zolto wasn't the brightest Hutt but he had Credits, and after several close calls with bounty hunters, R5 and Ejoni decided enough was enough. By contacting some of the others on Zolto's hit list, they managed to put together a group to put down the Hutt. In a protracted shootout deep in the heart of Nar Shadda, R5 and the others managed to fight their way to Zolto's throne room, and gun down the hutt in his own palace. Slicing into the treasury, R5 would walk away richer than even Kell had been when he retired. After this, R5 and Ejoni would agree to part ways, deciding that if anyone sought to retaliate for Zolto's death, it would be better to split up.

The acquisition of this windfall helped stir the first beginnings of personal experience within R5. Purchasing a freighter of his own and a massive supply of droid parts, R5 began work on a custom project he had devised based on a suggestion Kell had once made to his old captain: a ship entirely serviced and operated by droids. Constructing basic models with enough autonomy to fulfill nearly every task needed to run the ship, while R5 directed them as captain and handled interaction with organics and others from outside the ship. Dubbing it the [i]Kell's Dream[/i] after the source of inspiration used to devise it, R5 took to the stars once again.

The next 3 years of R5's adventures would see it across most of the known Galaxy, making several friends and more than a few enemies along the way. From Corellia to Kessel and everywhere in between, R5 would gather up profit and evade the law, slowly but surely learning more about itself and who it wanted to be. 

Between dodging Republic law enforcement and the assortment of rogues who wanted R5's head on their trophy shelf, R5 racked up considerable renown in the Galaxy, though R5 was by no means a most wanted criminal.

Now 4 years since it left home, R5 has become a decent smuggler and engineer in its own right, and although it doesn't know it yet, the inhibitors have slowly and steadily begun their process of shutting down. The newest sign of this has come in the wake of hostility between Exar Kun's forces and the Republic. Kell himself had stayed firmly neutral in regards to galactic politics, but R5 had decided to take a bit of initiative on this front. Contacting the Republic, R5 has offered up its services as a potential privateer for the Republic, as well as his knowledge of mechanics and various smuggling secrets, in exchange for amnesty for R5's past offenses. He now awaits their decision on the matter.

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Equipment: R5 carries a heavy blaster pistol and a light belt of grenades for inevitable firefights, while also carrying an assortment of engineering and mechanic tools for both self-repair and fixing external objects. R5's chassis is sturdy enough to fill the role of light body armor, though R5 much prefers to use personal shielding when it can get its hands on it.

Skills: R5 contains all the knowledge and memories of its creator, and as such is an excellent mechanic and engineer when it comes to droids. Though Kell wasn't the best crack shot out there, he was no slouch in a firefight, and neither is R5. However, despite having access to Kell's memories and abilities of being charismatic in nature, R5 is unable to actively utilize these traits due to the limitations of the emotional inhibitors, though R5 is good at analyzing speech patterns and warning others against persuasional intent.

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Misc: Although R5 can't explain it, R5 has a habit of mimicking Kell's twitches and body language, often leaning against things, flipping a credit chit in its hand or even picking at its "teeth".
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