Lucrehulk - class Droid Control Ship The " Lucrehulk " - class Droid Control Ship was one of the many warships used by the Trade Federation and the Separatist Navy , and arguably the most important weapon in their arsenals . Droid Control Ships were used to coordinate battle droid armies . Characteristics . The ship was similar in appearance to the standard " Lucrehulk " - class battleship — a toroidal hull with engines in the stern , docking claws at the bow , and a detachable core ship in the center . The major addition to the Droid Control Ship was an array of transmitters and broadcasting equipment , which allowed it to control a large battle droid army on a planetary surface . Each ship has two large main antennas and six backup antennas . Sensor equipment included one main sensor rectenna and two auxiliary sensor rectennas . The core ship has two more sensor rectennas . Equally important , the Droid Control Ship was equipped with 16 signal receiver dishes , located around the perimeter of the vessel , to pick up transmissions from droid units . Each of these receiver dishes has a pair of boost panels to squelch noise or interference . The ship was fitted with an extremely powerful Central Control Computer to sort through and process incoming information , formulate commands , and broadcast them to the surface . To compensate for this additional power drain , Droid Control Ships were equipped with two reactor cores , providing more energy . Unfortunately , there was a fatal flaw in this design : Both reactors were linked ; if one core were to be destroyed , the other would go with it , which was exploited by Anakin Skywalker during its attack on Naboo . The complement of a " Lucrehulk " - class droid control ship was 1 , 500 Vulture Droids , 50 C - 9979 landing craft , 550 Multi - Troop Transports , 6 , 250 Armored Assault Tanks and 1 , 500 Platoon Attack Craft . This vulnerability would ultimately prove to be the downfall of early Trade Federation military strategy : with all commands emanating from a central control ship , destruction of that ship would essentially shut down every droid under its control . Enemy forces would capitalize on this weakness , destroying the orbital platform and thereby leaving the planetary - bound droid armies helpless . Following the Battle of Naboo , however , most B1 battle droids were altered to make them independent of the control ships , able to function even with the loss of vessel ( even though the older models would continue to be used ) . History . During the Battle of Naboo , Bravo Squadron — led by Ric Olié — launched from Theed in the hopes that they could take out the orbital warship , the " Vuutun Palaa " . All their efforts proved to be for naught since the ship ' s deflector shield was too strong for the Naboo starfighters to break through . Eventually , however , the Droid Control Ship was destroyed when Anakin Skywalker — escaping from a number of droid fighters — flew into the ship ' s hangar , and inadvertently destroyed the starboard reactor with a pair of proton torpedoes . The ship went down in seconds , but Anakin Skywalker still managed to steer his starfighter out of the hangar , and escape with the rest of the Naboo pilots . After the Battle of Naboo , the Trade Federation modified the Droid Control Ship , along with the standard battleship , so that its core ship could detach and land on a planet ' s surface . This was part of a ruse meant to trick the Republic into thinking that the Federation was dismantling all its warships . They would be used in the Clone Wars as the Trade Federation was assimilated into the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Unlike the main battleship variant , the Control Ships did not get any weapons upgrades . A modified ship with jamming capabilities was used and destroyed at the Battle of Balamak . About a year after the First Battle of Geonosis , the RAS " Prosecutor " went missing within the Chaykin Cluster , which resulted in the dispatch of the Republic ' s clone commandoes , specifically Delta Squad . Once aboard , the commandoes battled their way through the ship , encountering a Trandoshan nest , who had stolen the ship to sell to the Trade Federation in exchange for weapons and troops . Eventually , a droid control ship arrvied to claim the ship , with the result of the commandoes destroying the Federation ships with the help of a nearby Republic assault ship . Just like what had happened at the Battle of Naboo , the droid attackers aboard the assault ship had ceased entirely once the control ship was badly damaged enough . Years after the Clone Wars , after the rise of the Galactic Empire and Palpatine ' s Declaration of a New Order , these ships were used by Separatist holdouts . Following the Declaration of Rebellion and the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic , at least one of these vessels was used by the Rebels in an attack on the Death Star during the early days of the Galactic Civil War .