Editing Android (section)

===Star Wars===
The (trademarked) name "Droid" is obviously derived from "android". Despite this, while many droids in [[Star Wars]] have a roughly humanoid shape and artificial skin is old tech that has existed for a long time (a ''long'' time), very few droids could pass for human. The first known droid that pretended to be human did so merely by pretending to never meet in person and projecting a hologram of its "owner" and pretending they were elsewhere. That of course, doesn't really count.

It was not until the era of the Empire that droids capable of passing for human went anywhere. The first attempt came shortly after the fall of the Republic and was so disastrously deep in the uncanny valley it killed the company behind it. Despite this failure, Imperial scientists, well aware of their value as infiltrators, continued working on them. A decade latter they produced droids that could pass for human to all but thorough medical tests and were explicitly capable of sex. The Rebellion experimented with the concept as well, but didn't produce anything till after the Battle of Endor (by which time they had already encountered Imperial examples) and those they did were crude and malfunction prone <ref>If you're wondering how they managed to do what a massive company devoted to making the tech couldn’t yet simultaneously fail at the basic droid parts, which have been well understood by the general public for thousands of years it’s easy: This bit appeared exclusively in the [[Skub]]tastic ''Jedi Prince'' series and continuity resources trying to explain where the fuck a robot duplicate of Leia came from.</ref>. In the New Republic era one of the surviving Imperial examples began producing further examples based on her own design (details on this are really vague because the part comes exclusively from one short story intended to clean up lose ends that really just makes more than it solved).

Saga Edition is the only one of the Star Wars RPGs to stat replica droids out for PC use, giving them stats in ''Threats of the Galaxy''. They are stated as a humanoid race with some droid traits instead of a type of droid. The other RPGs do mention their existence, and the way droids work in D6 and FFG's system makes it easy to roll a droid PC and say it's a replica droid.

One curious implication of HRDs is combining them with Shards. Shards are a species of sapient crystals that can’t move or speak on their own that can be implanted into a droid to gain mobility, speech, sight and hearing, and are described as “insatiably curious, and almost intoxicated by the new sensory experiences”. The implication of giving such beings the full range of human senses has interested fans, but it has never been mentioned in any official work.