As Game Update 1.5 nears, BioWare is beginning to release more information on what we’ll be seeing exactly in the update. One of the most anticipated pieces of new content is the new droid companion coming in Game Update 5.1, HK-51. Last Friday, BioWare staff members published a developer blog with some background information on the story of HK-51. Here’s a snippet:
“As useful as the HK-51 model would be to both the Republic and Empire, acquiring one of these Droids is currently believed to be impossible. The last known HK-51 Droids were lost during the Great War, when an Imperial starship carrying a battalion of them was shot down over the ice-encrusted wastelands of Belsavis. Even if these models are discovered, they would undoubtedly have been rendered inoperable after spending so long in such extreme conditions. Constructing new HK-51 Droids became impossible after unidentified saboteurs erased every copy of the Droid’s design schematics from Czerka Corporation’s computer network. The only HK-51 data files rumored to exist it were allegedly aboard an experimental Czerka mobile research lab known as the Theoretika. The vessel vanished during a routine hyperspace jump decades before the Belsavis incident and sabotage of Czerka’s archived schematics. Czerka spokespeople have publicly stated that even if the long-lost Theoretika were to be located, it should be destroyed immediately. Whoever was on board is undoubtedly dead and the ship now represents far more of a threat than an opportunity.”
The read the full article, check out the developer blog. Also, thanks to information uncovered on the Public Test Server (PTS), it was discovered that once a level 50 player does the quests to obtain HK-51, the player will be able to purchase character unlocks for their lower level alts to also run around with the droid companion. These unlocks will cost 1 million Credits or 350 Cartel Coins per character.