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HK-47
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HK-47
Droid type Assassin Droid
Manufacturer Darth Revan
Gender Masculine programming
Height 1.8 m
Sensor color Red
Home planet Unknown
Master (owner) Revan, Jedi Exile
Affiliation None
HK-47 is an assassin droid from the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
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Bio
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
HK-47 was originally created by Darth Revan to be the quintessential assassin. While he is completely loyal - friendly, even - to those he identifies as "master", he has virtually no regard for any form of life, and is driven by an unquenchable thirst for blood. He characteristically uses the term "meatbag" when speaking of organic lifeforms, especially humans. This insult was originally used in passing by HK when insulting Revan's apprentice, Darth Malak. Revan found the insult (as well as Malak's annoyance) funny enough to order HK to consider all organics as "meatbags".
He is a high-performance assassin droid who excels and delights in all manner of violence. Despite his inherently menacing appearance, he is often mistaken for a protocol droid by a number of characters in the game, and has used this to his advantage on more than one occasion, hiding his true nature. He actually has a number of protocol functions in additional to his less legal ones, being fluent in Galactic Basic, a Sand People (Tusken) dialect, the beeps and whistles of astromech droids, and many other forms of communication, as is standard. In The Sith Lords, HK-47 claims to be able to double as a protocol droid.
In the first Knights of the Old Republic, depending upon the repair skill of the player, a number of interesting stories can be extracted from HK-47's memory. These stories reveal what HK had done before the player met him, and why HK-47 did the actions that he did. In all of them, he directly or indirectly killed his employers, still doing exactly what was asked of him. His programming prevents him from killing his master except by accident (if his master is killed, he shuts down automatically until manually restarted). In addition to these stories, HK-47 combat skills will be upgraded, resulting in raised dexterity, and the ability to regenerate over time.
In the sequel, The Sith Lords, HK-47 is found in a compartment on the Ebon Hawk in a state of disrepair. With the addition of four missing vital parts, HK can come back to life and serve the party once more. Also in the sequel game there are droids that the Jedi Exile encounters that resemble HK-47 that call themselves the "HK series droids" or the HK-50s that seem to have been hired to hunt Jedi (including the Jedi Exile). Their existence in the game was also supposed to include a HK factory that manufactured them, but that was cut from the game. Gamesave modders found the factory in KotOR II's game code and made it available for download to gamesave devices. [1]
In The Sith Lords, a great deal of information is learned about HK-47, if the player is willing to gain influence with the droid. HK-47 explains that his creation was inspired, however indirectly, from the actions of the Jedi Exile. The Exile's experiences using the mass shadow generator caused Revan to believe that, instead of mass slaughter, isolated and specific assassinations would be more effective for his goals.
It is also learned that those Revan ordered HK-47 to kill were not killed out of hatred: every being Revan used HK-47 to kill was a destablizer, a sentient who intentionally worked to weaken the galaxy as a whole. While The Sith Lords goes far to reveal that most of Revan's actions were strangely noble, HK's use as a galaxy-stabilizing tool is most remarkable.
His name is probably derived from the term "Hunter-Killer," relating to his assassin protocols. Also, some believe the name comes from the famous assault rifle the AK-47, the famed Hitman known as Mr. 47, or coming from H&K or Heckler & Koch, the German weapon manufacturer.
It is ironic to note that while HK is an insatiably violent and bloodthirsty killer, especially by droid standards, he stands out as one of the biggest sources of comic relief in the game. He often makes sadistic or insulting remarks while perpetually retaining an almost-aristocratic tone in his voice. At one point, HK informs the main character that the most optimal way of defeating a group of enemies is to simply toss grenades in every direction. The droid does not even care that the fight is taking place in a fully loaded bar. Some also assume that his usage of the word "meatbag" was inspired by Bender from Futurama, who is also a major comic relief.
It is unknown if Revan programmed some of HK's "morals and ethics", or if they simply formed on their own. One example of HK's quotes has that similar moral ambiguity prevalent in his programming. When the Exile asks HK-47 if he knows what love is, he responds: "Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope...Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds." Whether this is a metaphor with wisdom or merely more of the droid's blood lust is arguable.
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