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'''B1 Battle droids''' were a type of military droid built by Baktoid Combat Automata and various lease corporations, making up the backbone of the Trade Federation’s and latter Confederacy’s army. Externally, they were lanky humanoid and roughly skeleton like robots with elongated heads with backpacks and were normally armed with various types of otherwise standard infantry small arms (blaster carbines, rifles, thermal detonators). As well, they could be used to operate vehicles and spacecraft in combat. While they were rather easy to destroy, they were cheap and could be turned by droid factories in very large numbers. At the end of the clone war, the droid armies of the Confederacy were shut down, although some B1 battle droids were latter reactivated by various forces.
'''Battle droids''' are a model of [[droid]] built by Baktoid Combat Automata[1] to serve as military foot-soldiers. Humanoid in form, they can operate weapons and vehicles designed for humanoid infantry. Although inferior to living troops because they lack the capacity for "original thinking" (see below), they can be produced in large numbers and never question their orders.


==Remote Control==
The battle droids deployed in the [[Trade Federation]] invasion of [[Naboo]] had extremely limited autonomy. They required some kind of support from a "droid control ship" in orbit above the planet; when Naboo starfighters destroyed the control ship, the entire droid army on the planet's surface shut down.


==Cognative ability==
The exact role of the droid control ship is the subject of speculation.  Hypotheses include:
* The droids were remotely controlled from the ship.  This seems odd, since the droids audibly conversed with each other to give and receive orders, notify each other of events, and discuss courses of action; remotely controlled droids should not need to converse.  A possible explanation is that the droid bodies were remotely-operated by droid brains kept on the control ship.
* The droids were remotely powered by a broadcast power system on the control ship.
* The control ship sent a "stay alive" signal, which the control ship could stop if necessary to prevent a droid rebellion.


One issue that has come up involving the B1 battle droids comes from the way the droids operated during the trade federation's actions on Naboo. They were officially listed as working as having no congative copacity what so ever and being remotely controlled by a central AI aboard the droid control ship and when it was destroyed, the droid army shut down. However, the battle droids are orgenized with officer units and droids engaging in visual computation and actions clearly representing individual and independant sapient thought. To adress this fact, the most commonly agreed upon explenation about this by the fandom is that the droid control ship is not actually controlling the droids, but simply providing a keep alive signal to autonomous droids, so that in case of a droid rebellion, the Nemodians could simply cut the signal and turn them off.
Whatever the reason, the manufacturer apparently corrected the problem after the Battle of Naboo, as battle droids stopped having this vulnerability in later engagements
 
==Notes==
1) [http://www.Starwars.com Starwars.com]

Revision as of 17:55, 15 November 2007

Battle droids are a model of droid built by Baktoid Combat Automata[1] to serve as military foot-soldiers. Humanoid in form, they can operate weapons and vehicles designed for humanoid infantry. Although inferior to living troops because they lack the capacity for "original thinking" (see below), they can be produced in large numbers and never question their orders.

Remote Control

The battle droids deployed in the Trade Federation invasion of Naboo had extremely limited autonomy. They required some kind of support from a "droid control ship" in orbit above the planet; when Naboo starfighters destroyed the control ship, the entire droid army on the planet's surface shut down.

The exact role of the droid control ship is the subject of speculation. Hypotheses include:

  • The droids were remotely controlled from the ship. This seems odd, since the droids audibly conversed with each other to give and receive orders, notify each other of events, and discuss courses of action; remotely controlled droids should not need to converse. A possible explanation is that the droid bodies were remotely-operated by droid brains kept on the control ship.
  • The droids were remotely powered by a broadcast power system on the control ship.
  • The control ship sent a "stay alive" signal, which the control ship could stop if necessary to prevent a droid rebellion.

Whatever the reason, the manufacturer apparently corrected the problem after the Battle of Naboo, as battle droids stopped having this vulnerability in later engagements

Notes

1) Starwars.com

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