Adapted from the book: The Lando Calrissian Adventures by: L. Neil Smith

The name of Vuffi Raa is not what it seems. At first, hearing the droid's title, most beings, make the assumption that it is a name like one of many, reserved for sapient beings. Droids are always assigned a series of letters and/or numbers in a language he has no recollection of.

Vuffi Raa was packed inside a crate aboard when his initial activation began. A pirate attck on the vessel transporting the droid to his initial point of sale, exposed his compartment to the vacuum of space. As a self preservation mechanism, his encoded programming activated the droid prematurely. This premature activation caused a malfunction in the droid's memory circuits.

As a result, Vuffi Raa has no knowledge of his planet of origin or the beings who constructed him. He maintains only a vague impression that he was fashioned after the beings who created him. In reality he is an offspring of an ancient race of mechanoids.

He has proven himself a capable pilot, navigator, communications specialist and starship mechanic. His gunnery skill versus unmanned targets is superb.

The droid stands 1 meter tall when braced on all five limbs for stability. He has a chromium plated pentagon shaped central module, with one of his matching limbs protruding form each edge. Each limb sports a unique device on its tip. These have mulitple uses ranging from visual sensor to spot weirder. A glowing red sensor tops his silvery central module.

Name: Vuffi Raa Second degree
Multiphasic Robot Model: Unknown
Height: 1m
Move: 8
Dex: 2D; Brawling Parry: 4D
KNO: 2D
MEC: 3D Astrogation: 4D, Communications: 4D+2 Sensors: 3D+1, Space Transports: 4D+2 Starship Gunnery: (unmanned targets) 6D Starship Shields: 4D+2

(For more information on Vuffi Raa, read The Lando Calrissian Adventures by L. Neil Smith)

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