HK-47, voiced by Kristoffer Tabori, is a fictional assassin droid from the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, its sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, and the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion pack to the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: Galaxies.
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i>Knights of the Old Republic, the player's character purchases HK-47 from a vendor on Tatooine.
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Quotations
Answer: Master, your concern is unfounded. I assure you, I am operating at peak efficiency.
I respect all life. All life is connected and should be nurtured.
Musing: I think perhaps I would enjoy learning a new language. Or watching an informative holovid.
We must always think of the children. The littlest ones always suffer in war.
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HK-47, voiced by Kristoffer Tabori, is a fictional assassin droid from the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, its sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, and the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion pack to the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars: Galaxies.
Development
A BioWare developer posted to the company's forum that HK-47 is named in homage of a dropship in Shattered Steel. However, KotOR lead writer Drew Karpyshyn claimed the name derived from his billiards team's name.
Depiction
In Knights of the Old Republic, the player's character purchases HK-47 from a vendor on Tatooine. Dialogue establishes that Revan built the bloodthirsty droid, which characteristically refers to organic lifeforms as "meatbags". HK-47 is again disabled at the beginning of The Sith Lords; the player's character recovers from damaged HK-50 droids the pieces needed to repair HK-47. Dialogue in The Sith Lords expands on the droid's backstory and purpose, establishing that Revan used the droid to kill people who destabilized or weakened the galaxy.
In the time frame of the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion to Star Wars Galaxies, HK-47's artificial intelligence has transferred into a computer on a Galactic Republic cruiser that later crashed on Mustafar. The droid calls on players to complete several quests to return him to a droid body.
Awards
At the 2004 Game Developers Choice Awards, the HK-47 character won the category of
"Original Game Character of the Year". The character also won Computer Gaming Worlds 2003 "NPC of the Year" award.
External links
- at the Star Wars Databank
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