Gunner Beldrake

Gunner Beldrake was a droid smuggler.

Creation and early development
Gunner was unsure exactly when he was created. His oldest memories in his memory banks were corrupted from an unknown cause. All he knew was that he was a special creation, not made from any standard droid class, created at least a few hundred years before the Clone Wars. His creator, Darby Beldrake, was a droid experimentalist. Darby wanted to create droids more akin to sentient beings with more fluid-like movements, having smooth-moving joints where sentients would have joints. Gunner was one of his more successful experiments.

Eventually, Darby died of old age and natural causes. This left experiments like Gunner alone to their own devices. Gunner decided to strike out on his own and find a purpose in the large galaxy. He quickly found out that droids did not receive the same respect sentient species did, especially with humans. This led Gunner to give himself upgrades that would make him appear sentient, including giving himself a mask that hid his droid features and would explain his electronic voice.

Life of a smuggler
By the time of the Clone Wars, Gunner was a highly skilled smuggler. He was a self-taught pilot and marksman and added even more upgrades to his droid body to better serve him as a smuggler. Because no one knew him to be a droid, he was well respected amongst his peers and clients. He usually worked alone, but he had made friends with other smugglers and worked with them quite often.