This is the TRAGIC story of the B1 Battle Droid That DESERTED the Droid Army and became a farmer.
During the final months of the Clone Wars a battalion of B1 Battle droids were marching through the important republic farming world of Antamont in order to capture a key Republic stronghold. While marching towards their target, a blast mine was detonated, tearing through the droid forces, leading to something incredibly mysterious happening. One of the B1 battle droids was sent tumbling through the air, off the nearby cliffside, hitting his head on a rock below. This injury gave the b1 battle droid complete independence, and the ability to disobey any order given to it.
The story begins on a rocky trail leading to the Republic stronghold on Antamont.
At the command of General Grievous and Count Dooku, the separatist droid army are marching towards the stronghold, but fail to notice a group of Republic blast mines placed directly in front of their path. The commanding B1 battle droid of the battalion steps forward before his troopers, and unfortunately activates the group of blast mines, shredding his forces to pieces, sending their metal parts flying through the nearby forests. The deep red explosion rings out through the nearby mountains, scorching the trees, and sends a lone B1 battle droid plunging to what he thinks is his death. He knows that he is easily replaceable and will simply be left as a pile of scrap once Dooku and Grievous discover the incident.
As his metallic body is freefalling down the cliff, he shuts down his photoreceptors and prepares to be destroyed and replaced. Fortunately for him though, his circuitry never shuts down. His thick metal head hits a rock below him with a loud clunk, before triggering memories, or video recordings, as they are for a droid, of his creation in the factories of Geonosis.
The horrific memories of his creation play back in his head, as he is forced to remember every time he was destroyed on the harsh battlefields of the Clone Wars, before being soulessly salvaged, rebuilt and deployed countless times. Despite being programmed to feel no emotion, he was forced to relive the painful cycle of life that he had gone through multiple times during the war. The b1 battle droid was finally snapped out of the pain, as a flash of light filled his photoreceptors, finding himself awake right next to the rock that just damaged his head. Once the B1 battle droid awoke, he was initially shocked, but soon realized that his circuitry was disconnected to the hive-mind computer, and the nightmares that came from it were silenced. If you really think about it, this sounds very similar to how Tup and Fives reacted just before their deaths.
So let me know down below if by the end of the story, you can actually feel bad for the deserting battle droid, because similar to the clones, he is discovering that all of his actions and his ultimate fate are already decided by the separatist command computer, which gives him absolutely no choice in his actions, until this moment. The droids might have actually been more similar to the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the republic than we thought. It does really show how brutal Palpatine was when playing Both sides of the Clone Wars.
Soon after this, he attempted to join back with the surviving members of the droid battalion, but a shocking realization came over him, that he wasn’t being forced to by his programming anymore. Because of this, the battle droid quickly ran away from his battalion, which caught the attention of one of the Grapple droid units in his squad. The grapple unit chased the lone deserter all the way to the edge of a very steep nearby cliff. One the deserter realizes that he has run out of room to run, he stops just before running off the cliff, but as he feared, the grapple droid had caught up with him.