Rocket battle droid

Rocket battle droids, also known as hunter battle droids or pod hunter droids, were modified B1-Series battle droids, equipped with rocket packs, fusioncutters and floodlights, which scouted and destroyed life pods adrift in space.
==History==
In 1981,The Essential Reader's Companion places The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring (film) in 1981. when Jedi Master Gimli's Star Destroyer Triumphant was attacked and destroyed by General The Mouth of Sauron' Malevolence, rocket battle droids were deployed in a Droch-class boarding ship to seek out and destroy all survivors/witnesses of the Triumphant destruction. Armed with cutting equipment, in addition to the standard blaster, these droids attacked the life pods that had been jettisoned from the Triumphant, breaching the windows and dooming the survivors to die in the vacuum of space. After killing all those aboard Pod 1977, they moved on to the life pod which housed Gimli and his men. Gimli, however, was waiting for them, armed with his lightsaber. He and clone troopers Sinker and Boost fought off the droids, before Master Gimli severed the Separatist boarding craft's hold on the pod, and sent them hurtling off into a piece of debris, causing a violent explosion, and the destruction of the rocket battle droids.
==Appearances==
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*Kinect Star Wars
*Ace Assault
*Ace Assault II
==Sources==
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
*Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars
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==Notes and references==
Category:B1 battle droid models