Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords/Polar Plateau

File:KotOR Map Polar Plateau.png

Map of the polar plateau

After HK-50s arrived too late at the Underground Base, but managed to track your shuttle's movement across the shield network, the unit dispatched to the polar region with your last known coordinates and approximate path awaits you on the polar plateau, and shoots down your shuttle!

The shuttle crashes on the west side of the plateau. In the aftermath, you, Atton and Kreia lie in the snow outside to the north of the shuttle and, as you all get to your feet, the three HK-50s to the north speak:

HK-50: Irritated Declaration: There you are. It has been extremely difficult to track you down, Jedi.

HK-50: Quick Clarification: But now that we have found you, we hope that we can facilitate communications.

HK-50: Unnecessary Addendum: And put an end... to hostilities.

Dialog

1. Any reason why you shot down my vessel? HK-50: Unnecessary Clarification: We merely wished to cripple your vessel. Once we tracked your coordinates, we were able to deploy several droids in this location. HK-50: Probing Query: We are, however, curious as to why you chose to come to the remnants of the polar Telos irrigation system. There is nothing here that our instruments can detect. HK-50: Eager Threat: But we are looking forward to extracting your motives for coming here when we place you in torture restraints. 2. What are you assassin droids doing here? HK-50: Self-Evident Answer: Wherever you try to run, we will be there, armed and ready. HK-50: Rhetorical Query: So the query you have posed to us is one we put to you. What are you doing here, we wonder? 3. How many of you are there? HK-50: Chiding Statement: Oh, Jedi, there are as many of us as are needed to capture or kill our targets. HK-50: Egotistical Boast: And there are far more of us than any one Jedi. Destroy one of us, and more shall rise from the wreckage. HK-50: Unnecessary Threat: And our attack protocols are more than a match for you - and your allies.

4. If you want a fight, then come on.

5. Destroying one of you was easy... wiping out three of you might cause me to break a sweat.

From left to right, the three HK-50s use the following weapons:

Weapon	Heavy Blaster	Blaster Rifle	Heavy Repeating Blaster
Weapon Focus	No	Yes	Yes
Damage: Energy	(1-10) * ?	(1-12) * ?	(2-16) * ?
Critical Threat	20-20,x2	19-20,x2	20-20,x2

All three can use Power Blast, which trebles damage on a critical hit. They're too far apart for grenades to affect more than one of them, but if you or Kreia can use Disable or Destroy Droid on the one in the middle then all three will be affected, and Atton can make Sneak Attacks on any stunned droids. Otherwise, since they're all ranged attackers, using melee weapons can improve chance to hit once the distance has been closed.

Received: Challenge Rating ? Killed HK-50 (3)

HK-50 HK Control Cluster

HK-50 (3) ?

This control cluster looks like it was singed by blaster fire, but it looks like the durasteel shell surrounding kept it intact despite the damage.

Bao-Dur lies in the snow at the southeast corner of the shuttle:

[Bao-Dur looks as if he was knocked unconscious by the explosion - if you can find refuge, then he should recover in time.]

Further to the southeast is a turbolift that can take you down into the interior of the polar plateau. After entering, two figures dressed in white and armed with quarterstaves approach and stand over Bao-Dur...