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Custom mouse droid figure and its story

 

The mouse droidMSE-series repair droid, sometimes referred to as the mouse droid. The name came from their small size, and the fast movement, also originated from its designation, since the MSE letters almost put out the English word MOUSE. The mouse droid was a small, box-shaped, wheeled general purpose MSE-series droid often used for delivery and maintenance purposes. MSE-6 units were most notably on Star Destroyers and both Death Stars during the time of the Galactic Empire.

The mouse droid fleetMSE-6 mouse droid stood about 25 centimeters tall and ran on four wheels. Although programmed with multiple capabilities, the droid was designed with only a singular function. Despite the lack of multiple skills, MSE-series droids were a popular line. These droids were usually programmed with a single function that varied per assignment. Once they were set on the task, they would do nothing else. They were pretty dumb. So after a successful task they required new programming, to do a new job. Since each droid possessed only a single skill, multiple mouse droids could chain together to pool their resources for more complex assignments. A modular circuit matrix was installed beneath mouse_escorts a stormtrooper squad to a death star destinationthe droid's boxy shell, and contained programming for one skill. Commonly, mouse droids carried out cleanup and basic repair duties, and could serve in security and communications fields. Trains of MSE-6 droids could often be seen guiding troops through military installations; this kind of duty required mouse droids to be programmed with complete readouts of their assigned areas. In addition, due to their use in military outposts, the mouse droids had often vital datas in their memories, which must not got in hostile hands, so MSE units were rigged to melt down if captured, giving the droids a strong self-preservation instinct.

Producing billions of the droids, heavily promoting them in over four hundred sectors and marketing them as "mouse_droid_cwcute"; the general public instead considered them irritating, and some considered them similar to annoying vermin. So the average people did not liked them. Many MSE-6 droids were used by the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars. (One such droid can be seen in a Season V episode, where the Separatists use a captured Republic cruiser as a moving bomb, which was planned to navigate into a space station, mouse droids on mustafarwhere many important Republic personalities are gathering.) The Confederacy of Independent Systems also maintained a number of these droids and MSE droids in the Separatist Council War Room on Mustafar at the end of the Clone Wars. A number of MSE-4s were employed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems on Mustafar, working in a Techno Union facility. They were easily frightened, and Darth Vader easily scared a group of them while walking down a hallway of the base before he killed the Separatist leaders.

Rebaxan Columni became desperate to sell the massive collection of droids they had built, so they sold the entire lot of them to the Empire for work in the Imperial Navy, which was desperate for droids, before bankruptcy. They offered them for a small price and gave all of them to the Galactic mouse_droid_ep4Empire; every ship in the fleet had hundreds of them. Their use was only limited by their owner's creativity. MSE-droids became common on the Death Star. These droids were often used to carry messages in vast Imperial ships and battle stations as well as leading troops through mazes of corridors to their assigned mouse_droid_chewbaccaposts through the many hallways and levels. We could see one of them leading a squad of trooper to that area, where they will be needed because of the rebel attack. An other is serving on that corridor of the Death Star, where Luke and Han are escorting the captive Chewbacca into prison. The large Wookie growls at the mouse droid, who scares, turns back, and mouse_droid_konzol a jk2 játékbanretreats from the towering wookie, who very possibly laughs at it. The MSE droids had two small internal arms and they could do a variety of tasks such as sanitation and security. We never saw it in the films, however it can be seen in the game Jedi Outcast, where Kyle Katarn uses one mouse droid to reach a wall console somewhere hidden in small service tunnels, he opens doors, and deactivates hazards with the droid to be able to advance.

The mouse droid has found its way into the Hasbro toy line three times now. The 1999 fan exclusive Power of the Force 2 Freeze Frame Death Star Droid came packaged with a model mouse droid. The 2002 Power of the Jedi astromech droid R4-M9 also came packaged with the same mouse droid model. The droid was released a third time as part of the 2011 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive "Revenge of the Jedi" Death Star set. This model was of a single piece hollow plastic mold construction with non movable wheels. The whole product is crying for a custom upgrade. So I painted it, a small silver was brushed on its shell, making it more metallic, the wheels were modified, of course they are still not rolling, but look more authentic in my opinion.

 

Take a look at my custom mouse droid figure!

 

Custom mouse droid figure front

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Custom mouse droid figure right

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Custom mouse droid figure left

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Custom mouse droid figure back

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 written by: Norbert Rostas 2012.06.14. the figure was made many years before.

 

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