Jawajuice Corporation

The **Jawajuice Corporation** was a mechanics company specialising in droids which was founded in 7ABY by Drent Startreader and a group of Jawas from Tatooine.

## History

### Foundation

The Jawajuice Corporation was founded in 7ABY by a group of Jawas and Drent Startreader, who funded the corporation and bought a space station to use as their headquarters using credits he had stolen from the New Republic. Jawajuice quickly became very successful as their products and services were high quality and they also catered to criminals such as the Hutt Cartels and the Black Sun Pirates with security and hacking technologies provided by Drent. Drent was highly respected by the Jawas as although he was effectively the CEO of the company, he took a personal interest in learning mechanics from the Jawas and often took part in the work requested by the corporation's customers.

### Retirement of Drent Startreader

Between 7ABY and 8ABY several bounty hunters tracked down Drent in attempts to collect the bounty offered by the New Republic, which lead to several battles fought on the Jawajuice Space Station. Although Drent won these battles due to defences and traps he had set up around the station, many of these battles resulted in collateral damage. Drent decided to retire as CEO and leave Jawajuice, surrendering himself to the next worthy bounty hunter who tracked him down. In 8ABY Drent surrendered to Curt Maverick after a short battle.

### The Quiet Years

Between 8ABY and 21ABY Jawajuice continued along the same line that Drent had set for it, although the services in security suffered without his expertise and as a result the Corporation's growth slowed. They were uninvolved in the war between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic in 14ABY or in the war between the Vann Mandate and the Resistance in 17ABY.

### Nemo as CEO

During 21ABY a Jawa named Nemo and an Ewok named Jeev Jeev Malmatino requested a meeting with the leaders of Jawajuice. In this meeting Nemo persuaded the leaders to change the Corporation's aims to focus on producing battle-droids with the intent of eventually overthrowing the UFP and taking control of the Galaxy. The leaders agreed to this because they were filled with an unusual hatred and bloodlust during this meeting, which was due to the Dark Aura emitted by Jeev Jeev. Between 21ABY and 27ABY Jawajuice made many developments advancing their battle-droid technology, including the discovery of a destroyed droid factory on Geonosis from the Clone Wars from which blueprints for several designs of battle-droids were taken.

### The Droid War

#### The Betrayal of the UFP

In 27ABY the United Federation of Planets began bulk-buying AK50 battle-droids from Jawajuice under the orders of Admiral Edan Yaltara in order to reduce the Federation's dependence on human soldiers. In 28ABY the Jawajuice Corporation made use of a Backdoor Exploit they had designed in the droids to override all other orders and command the droids to kill all UFP personnel. This attack was very successful on the Core planets such as Coruscant and Corellia however many UFP military forces survived and reorganised. Jawajuice declared war on the UFP and began conquering UFP territory, forcing the UFP forces to retreat to Yavin IV.

#### First Losses

Jawajuice's first defeat in the war was on Dantooine, where a mysterious group of skilled mercenaries was able to exploit the same backdoor to order all droid units to self-destruct. Jawajuice planned to attack Dantooine a second time however they abandoned this plan after the Imperial Alliance claimed ownership of the planet. Jawajuice's second defeat was on Ord Mantell after the same mystery group infiltrated a Control Ship and exploited the backdoor again with the order to self-destruct.

#### War with the Imperial Alliance

At the beginning of the war between the UFP and the Jawajuice Corporation, the Imperial Alliance had declared neutrality which resulted in Jawajuice decided to avoid attacking until the UFP had been defeated. However, the Imperials broke the neutrality first with a surprise attack on a Jawajuice fleet over Coruscant. Although the Imperials has not intended this attack, as it had actually been organized by Jedi Master Pite Tverlo using Force Mind Trick to persuade General Bemina, Jawajuice decided to declare war as they suspected the Imperials had been secretly working against them.
The Imperials began the war by attempting to help the surviving UFP forces so that they could form a joint offensive. The Imperials won a major victory by attacking a Jawajuice fleet over Corellia, destroying or capturing all the ships in the Jawajuice fleet.

#### Defeat

Worried that the Imperial Alliance might use the same devastating hit and run tactics that the Sith Imperial Alliance used in the 2nd Sith War, Jawajuice Corporation attempted to bait the Imperials into a trap by sending the Mandalorian Burtrom Dansen, who had been captured during a raid on Tatooine, to tell the Imperials that Nemo was alone and poorly defended near Endor. The Imperials sent Dark Force 42 to assassinate Nemo however this plan was foiled by Burtrom, forcing the Imperials to move in their fleet to attack. Jawajuice sprung their trap but they underestimated the forces the Imperials would send and had expected Mandalorians to fight on the side of Jawajuice, however Mandalorians took no part in the battle. The resulting battle was evenly matched.
Dark Force 42 chased Nemo into one of the Jawajuice Capital ships, fighting through it until they confronted him. Nemo attempted to fight them however he was unskilled in combat. Instead, Jeev Jeev Malmatino appeared and used his Force Powers to try to kill the squad. He almost succeeded however Stan Taggart's Force Resistance enabled him to survive Jeev Jeev's lightning and to kill the Ewok.
After the Ewok had been killed, Nemo was released from the Dark Aura and, horrified by what he had done, he ordered the complete surrender of all Jawajuice forces.

### After the War

Nemo was arrested for his crimes as leader of Jawajuice and was held in an Imperial Prison until he was freed during a prison break attack organized by the Jedi Republic. He was imprisoned again by the Jedi, and was again freed in a prison break attack by Dark Force 42, after which they held him prisoner on their ship. Later, Nemo sacrificed himself in the Destruction of the Valley of the Jedi in an attempt to redeem himself.
Jawajuice Corporation was broken up into smaller groups of Jawas, most of whom returned to working on non-military droids. Most of the battle-droids used in the war were confiscated by the Imperial Alliance or the Jedi Republic and many were destroyed although both sides kept some droids in the hopes that they could use them during the impending war between the Imperials and the Jedi.

## Types of Droids

### AK50

The AK50 unit was the standard battle-droid of Jawajuice, it was based on the design of B2 Battle-droids used by the Trade Federation in the Clone Wars, blueprints for which had been found by Jawajuice on Geonosis. These droids were slow but could take a lot of damage and unlike many droid designs they were able to use any weapon designed for humanoid usage. This allowed them to use weapons they took from conquered enemies and enabled Jawajuice to avoid having to mass-produce weapons and ammo for the droids.

### AK51

The AK51 unit was an upgrade over the AK50 which was introduced towards the end of the Droid War, and were inspired by the fighting methods of the Mandalorians. AK51 units were more agile and could even equip jetpacks, however their late introduction to the war meant that too few were produced to make a significant difference to the outcome of the war.

### JK7

The JK7 'Jedi Killer' droid was a droid designed to fight Jedi and Sith by using their own tactics against them, however it also proved to be very efficient against non-Jedi enemies. The rare materials used in order to make these units virtually indestructible caused very few to be made, however they were devastating wherever they were used. Their 4 arms allowed for 4 blasters or 4 lightsabers to be used at the same time, and their armour was made from an alloy of Cortosis which enabled it to absorb blaster fire without breaking, however it was vulnerable to explosives. The JK7's advanced AI and surprising agility enabled it to avoid explosives in most situations. However, the AI was so intelligent that they began to break their own programming, with at least one unit confirmed to have gone rogue before the end of the war.