Blastromech Series, BT-1

A homicidal assassin droid created by the Galactic Empire's Tarkin Initiative, the BT-1 model is designed to look like an astromech droid in order to fool others. The droid is armed with a variety of weapons including several blaster cannons, flamethrowers, and rockets. The BT-1 model is also equipped with rocket boosters.

Assassin droids are a type of droid built specifically for the purpose of assassination. These droids generally perform with unflinching loyalty to their masters, but rogue assassin droids are not unknown. Since their missions generally require a far higher degree of independent skill, savvy, and judgment than normally possessed by simple war droids, their programming subroutines, circuitry, and memory cores are of correspondingly higher sophistication. Equipped with an array of weapons, assassin droids are also used as elite infantry when the need for skillful and quickly adaptable soldiers with unquestionable loyalty arises. An inordinate number of assassin droids have achieved sentient independence, including IG-88 and C-3PX, presumably due to the higher level of autonomy incorporated into their processor design. These droids typically fund their independent existences through the use of their innate abilities, often plying their trade as bounty hunters.