Baktoid Fleet Ordnance

Baktoid Fleet Ordnance was a droid-manufacturing company that was a division of the larger Baktoid Combat Automata firm. Baktoid Fleet produced the HMP droid gunship. Their gunship was used by the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars.
==Description==
The manufacturing company Baktoid Fleet Ordnance was formed under the galactic Techno Union corporation, as a builder of automated droid weaponry. Alongsides its sister company Baktoid Armor Workshop, it was a subisidiary to Baktoid Combat Automata and was composed of Geonosian workers. One of their projects was the HMP Predator gunship, a heavily armed airspeeder designed and manufactured for the Confederacy of Independent Systems in collaboration with the Haor Chall Engineering companies.
==History==
At some point in the Republic Era, Baktoid Fleet Ordnance was founded as a subisidary to the Techno Union. When the Clone Wars occurred, fought from 22 BBY to 19 BBYStar Wars: Timelines between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems, the company became one of the Confederacy's manufacturers for automated droid weaponry. Envisioning a heavily armed and automated repulsorlift airspeeder alongside Haor Chall Engineering, Baktoid Fleet Ordnance designed the HMP Predator gunship to replace the Separatists' pilot-dependant assault ships.
Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries helped to finalize the product, by providing Baktoid and Haor Chall with their stockpiles of exotic and superdense radioactive fuels. While development took time, the gunships were eventually deployed directly from the production lines two years into the Clone Wars. Baktoid and Haor Chall's products were then incorporated into the Confederacy and introduced at the Onderonian Civil War in 20 BBY, where four nearly eliminated a band of Onderonians rebelling against the Separatist occupation. From that point onward, the Predator gained a terrifying reputation for its droid brain as one of the most hated assets in the Separatist military.
==Behind the scenes==
Baktoid Fleet Ordnance was first mentioned simultaneously in the Star Wars Legends reference books Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-Sections and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary, both of which released on the same day in 2005. The company was confirmed to be canon by the reference book Ultimate Star Wars, which was released in 2015.
==Sources==
*Ultimate Star Wars 
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles
*Star Wars: Complete Vehicles
*Collapse of the Republic
*Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
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*Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition
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*Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
==Notes and references==
Category:Confederacy of Independent Systems corporations
Category:Droid manufacturers
Category:Geonosian culture
Category:Techno Union corporations