WSB-15 sabotage droid

The WSB-15 sabotage droid was a fourth-degree military sabotage droid model physically identical to the WED Treadwell repair droid. Along with sharing all the fifth-degree WED-15 Treadwell's systems and abilities, the WSB-15's differences from the latter included having a heuristic processor, military-grade sabotage and weapon use programming, and a self-destruct system unit. With most WSB-15 sabotage droids simply being WED-15 Treadwells with different processors, uses for the former included reprogramming droid factories to produce droids with very different personalities and training than intended, creating serious starfighter malfunctions that would only show up in combat or engaging in wanton destruction sprees.

In some cases, a WSB-15 would successfully perform its sabotage activities until discovered and then destroy itself. In other cases, a WSB-15 would instead fake a minor malfunction, which would then allow its owner to discretely arrange its processing core to be swapped with a normal WED-15 unit's. During the Galactic Civil War, WED-15-I7 was a WSB-15 that served the Galactic Empire as a maintenance droid.

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