Droid Gotra

The Droid Gotra was an organized crime group led by the Master Control Program which endeavored to advance droid rights in the galaxy, and re-purposed battle droids into espionage units, assassins, and sexual interrogation agents. It was part of the affiliation of crime groups under the Crymorah Syndicate on Coruscant.

Description
The Droid Gotra was an infamous organization of gangsters, mercenaries, bounty hunters, and criminals who proliferated after the Clone Wars, though they were also viewed as freedom fighters seeking the rights available to organics rather than droids' servile status. The organized crime group was one of several affiliated under the Crymorah Syndicate on Coruscant. It was led by the Master Control Program and utilized battle droids, some of which shared ancestry with ancient battle droids found on Rakata Prime, re-purposing them as spies, assassins, and sexual interrogation agents.

Imperial Era
The Corellian scrumrat Qi'ra was once involved in a failed deal with the Droid Gotra and the Kaldana Syndicate, after which she grew close to fellow scrumrat Han. The Gotra's Master Control Program paid tribute to Crimson Dawn capo Dryden Vos by gifting him with the CPU from one of Xim the Despot's war-robots, which he displayed in his private museum aboard the First Light.

Following the Great Droid Revolution led by L3-37 on Kessel, criminals in the Droid Gotra celebrated Droid Day, a religious observance to commemorate their so-called savior and await the time when she would return, reassembled into a new body by the Maker. Her actions also led to the creation of the L3-37 Society, which shared the Gotra's goal of advancing droid rights.

The Droid Gotra was among the affiliation of organized crime groups under the Crymorah Syndicate, alongside the Pyke Syndicate and Black Sun. The group was able to help keep the peace in the Coruscant underworld more effectively than the Galactic Empire. The mercenary Grummgar associated with the Gotra, and Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra was employed as a droid mechanic. She embarked on a mission to reactivate the assassin droids BT-1 and Triple-Zero for the Gotra, and encountered Darth Vader.

New Republic Era
It was suggested that Imperial scavengers on Jakku wiped the memory banks of droids left on the planet after the Galactic Civil War, in order to prevent them from joining with the Droid Gotra.

Resistance Era
As of Rey's time, the official record stated that the Gotra was nothing more than mechanized versions of Clone Wars veterans who proliferated as mercenaries, bounty hunters, and criminals. The passage of time allowed Rey to romanticize the group as freedom fighters seeking droid rights, and she fantasized over serving as a moll to a Gotra gangster in the Coruscant underworld. She imagined being shared around the board room as battle droids planned a raid on the Imperial Reserve Bank. General Leia Organa believed that, if the Gotra decided to expand its criminal enterprises into the holopornography market, it could employ the astromech droid voyeur R2-D2 as its premier director.

Behind the scenes
The Droid Gotra was first mentioned in the 2014 canon novel, and was later introduced into erotica canon with a mention in Das Flute's 2015 canon erotic fiction "Let It Flow".