The Essential Guide to Droids (Page 44-45)
Household Service: SE4 Servant Droid
[edit]When dining on bruallki, don’t use a three‑pronged fork. Always remember to crack the shell of a boiled suuri to release trapped steam pockets. And never serve plictro steak with chilled Algarian wine. After all, your guests might not even notice, but your SE4 servant droid will likely switch off its central processor and clatter to the floor in stunned horror.
Some wags have joked that the SE4 was designed for those who think protocol droids are too relaxed. Meticulous, persnickety, and fretful in the extreme, the automatons are nevertheless quite skilled at arranging large banquets and performing domestic duties in the dining room and beyond.
The SE4 is one of the oldest lines produced by Industrial Automaton. It has proven surprisingly resilient to the eccentricities of the economy and the quirky tastes of consumers. Like the similar 3PO units sold by IA’s arch‑rival Cybot Galactica, as long as they keep making them, people keep buying them.
Each droid possesses a shining humanoid frame and stands a bit short at 1.6 meters. Its joints are stiff and its posture flawless. The face, which looks slightly vacant, features two photoreceptors, two auditory sensors, and a vocabulator, all in human ranges. The SE4’s olfactory detector is quite sensitive, and it even has simulated tastebuds lining the inside of the left index finger.
Without these devices, proper preparation of recipes would be impossible.
Servant droids come hardwired with certain knowledge matrices, making them inherent experts at party planning, home economics, and the culinary arts. Their base behaviors are then modified with the installation of secondary skill modules, which can provide additional information on the local cuisine or detailed maintenance standards for a fifty‑room palatial estate.
Some owners use their SE4s as household handymen. With programming and experience, they can easily unstick a cabinet door or scrub l’lashï stains from a woven carpet, but anything more complicated—say, taking apart and reassembling a sputtering fusion furnace—is well outside their capacity and best left to a WED Treadwell. In a pinch, the droids can even serve as translators, since their intelligence units contain nearly one hundred of the most common galactic languages.
The current market value of a new SE4 is about twenty‑six hundred credits. Since the units can remain in active service for generations, picking up new dining tips and banquet customs with each passing year, most consumers feel they easily get their money’s worth.
Info Boxes
[edit]Front View
[edit]- Secondary Olfactory Sensor (cosmetic)
- Photoreceptors
- Vocabulator
- Primary Olfactory Sensor
- Insertion Slot for Skill Matrices
- Systems Access Port
- Pelvic Servomotor
Rear View
[edit]- Auditory Sensors
- Recharge Coupling
- Servomotor
- Simulated Tastebuds