Guardian Corps The Guardian Corps of the infamous pre - Republic dictator Xim the Despot were one of the earliest forms of battle droids . Description . These war - robots were humanoid in form and dwarfed their Human counterparts . Their Human Tionese designers were influenced by ancient Rakata n droid designs , and the rarest and highest - ranking of the Guardian Corps , the Crimson Condottiere s , employed Rakatan Force - energizing dynamos . Covered with thick armor plating coated with a mirrored reflective surface for deflecting enemy fire and reinforced stress points , they were dangerous foes . Shielded apertures built into their arms and hands contained a variety of chemical and energy weapons , including ancient heat beams and particle dischargers . Their heavy cranial turrets were adorned with tiny unit insignias which carried optical lenses and a speaker . These droids were relatively mindless and were controlled from transmission horns installed on military command podiums . Certain variants of the model including the Corps Commander s were designed with greater independence and could be distinguished by a golden death - head emblem on their breastplates in contrast to the white born by standard models . Despite being outdated by modern era standards , they were still deadly opponents in combat . History . During his reign from 25 , 130 BBY – 25 , 100 BBY , the Tionese dictator Xim controlled his empire through the use of the highest technology available at the time including the Guardian Corps . He used them to conquer countless worlds , creating an empire which covered much of the Tion Cluster including the Livien League and its capital Desevro and stretched from the Radama Void to the Maw . However , his empire eventually came into contact with the Hutt Empire . Hoping to vanquish the Hutts and become the master of the entire Si ' Klaata Cluster , he committed nearly all of his resources to the campaign . However , at the Third Battle of Vontor , the Hutts unleashed their new army of Klatooinian , Nikto , and Vodran mercenaries on Xim ' s army . These soldiers decimated his military forces , thus ending his reign . Xim was killed at Vontor according to Tionese history , but actually died a slave in the dungeons of Kossak the Hutt on Varl . His treasure ship , the " Queen of Ranroon " , escaped to the planet of Dellalt . There , it would be guarded for millennia by a thousand of his surviving war - robots and a secret brotherhood knew as the " Survivors , " descended from the original crew and elite guards on board the ship . Millennia later in 2 BBY , Han Solo and Chewbacca encountered the Guardian Corps during an adventure on Dellalt . These war - robots were used by the Survivors against a group of offworlders who started a semi - legal mining camp near the Survivor encampment . However , nearly all of the Corps was destroyed . Later , several archaeologists and researchers including the Ruurian S . V . Skynx began researching these ancient war - robots . While many droids were taken as trophies by the Hutts , most assumed that they were actually just decorations for the cities the Hutts lived in . In truth , the Guardian Corps was actually a desperate failsafe which were to be activated in the event of an invasion of Hutt Space . When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded Nal Hutta and the rest of Hutt space , the Guardian Corps — outdated several millennia over — mowed down hundreds of thousands of Yuuzhan Vong warriors in their wake . The last of Xim ' s Guardian Corps was finally destroyed in a hail of projectile bolts .