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Battledroids box art. Battledroids is a 1984 board game published by FASA.. It would be renamed to BattleTech for its second edition in 1985 and spawn the BattleTech/MechWarrior military science fiction gaming franchise and setting with numerous board games, video games, roleplaying games, a collectible card game, comics, magazines, over a hundred novels to date and a television series.
The game was at first called Battledroids. [9] The name of the game was changed to BattleTech in the second edition because George Lucas and Lucasfilm claimed the rights to the term "droid"; [10] [11] the machines themselves were renamed BattleMechs from the second edition onward. The game components included:
Title Catalog Year Publisher BattleDroids: 1604: 1984: FASA: BattleTech, Second Edition: 1604: 1985: FASA BattleTech, Third Edition: 1604: 1992: FASA BattleTech ...
Droids R2-D2 (left) and C-3PO (right), first featured in Star Wars. In the Star Wars space opera franchise, a droid is a fictional robot possessing some degree of artificial intelligence. The term is a clipped form of "android", [1] a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human. [2]
Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870) The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923.
Droid (band), an American metal band Droid, a 1988 science fiction film; Droid (), science fictional machines from the Star Wars franchise Star Wars: Droids, a cartoon series from the Star Wars franchise
BattleTech is a turn-based multiplayer game, typically played on a map divided into hexagonal grids with figurines or counters representing military units. Paper record sheets provide detailed information about each unit, including its armament, armor and equipment, and are used to track damage, heat buildup, ammunition and various other data.
Federation droid, Federation Droids, or variation, may refer to: . Battle droid, droids of the Galactic Trade Federation; Soong-type android, sometimes called "droid", found in the United Federation of Planets, created by Noonien Soong