Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research

The Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research, also designated as Imperial Advance Weapon Development, Advanced Weapons Research division, or simply as the Imperial weapons division, was an agency of Imperial Intelligence responsible for the development of emerging technologies in the Galactic Empire for use by the Imperial Military. Weapons development fell directly under Imperial Intelligence, while the department worked with the Imperial Security Bureau to defend its secrets.
==History==
Advanced Weapons Research was responsible for Project Blackwing, a clandestine experiment to revive necrotic tissue. To ensure the secrecy of the Death Star project, the Imperial weapons division used poison canisters to perpetrate genocide against the Geonosian species. In 2 BBY,Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide establishes that the mission to investigate Geonosis, seen in "Ghosts of Geonosis," occurred 2 years before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the events of Rogue One in 0 BBY. Therefore the mission to Geonosis took place in 2 BBY. the Spectres and Saw Gerrera discovered several of these canisters on Geonosis during a mission to investigate the disappearance of the Geonosians. Sabine Wren recognized the canisters as belonging to the Imperial weapons division.
The group also developed the Electro-Proton Bomb/Defoliator.
Under the leadership of Director Orson Krennic, Advanced Weapons Research was responsible for the completion of the long-delayed Death Star project. Krennic, however, was killed on the planet Scarif during the battle where the Rebel Alliance managed to extract the Death Star plans.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Despite Krennic's death, the group continued and was responsible for the construction of the second Death Star.Star Wars: Rogue One: Death Star Deluxe Book and 3D Wood Model Gideon was a member of the Advanced Weapons Research division during the Great Purge of Mandalore.
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*LEGO Star Wars Awesome Vehicles
==Notes and references==
Category:Imperial Intelligence bureaus and branches