HMP droid gunship/Legends

Heavy Missile Platform "Uh-oh."

- Vilmarh Grahrk upon seeing an HMP

The Heavy Missile Platform (HMP) was a droid gunship deployed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. It was based on the design of the older Mechanized Assault Flyer.

Characteristics


Manufactured by Baktoid Fleet Ordnance, the HMP droid gunship was an ominous-looking, heavily-shielded aerial missile platform. Designed for air strikes in planetary atmospheres, the droid gunship compensated for its sluggish airspeed with a powerful arsenal of weaponry. An HMP gunship's standard weapons configuration consisted of two laser cannon turrets, one medium laser cannon, two light laser cannons, and 14 missiles. It also had two moveable metal mandibles, for an unknown purpose, at its front.

The gunship's modular wings allowed the HMP to carry a wide variety of ordnance, from concussion bombs and torpedoes to electromagnetic pulse missiles. Seven missile launchers were located on either side of the gunship's main body, below the large aft-mounted disc housing the reactor core. The HMP's repulsorlift would steadily drive the gunship in flight, allowing for stable shooting in battle.

The gunship ran off an especially superdense radioactive fuel supplied by Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries.

History


Heavy Missile Platform gunships were developed mid-way through the Clone Wars and deployed during many battles including the Battle of Kashyyyk.

There were several variants of the platform, including atmospheric and space transports.

Local dictators like Ado Eemon were often contracted to add to the production of the HMP. They were usualy supplied with a small percent of the production run, which were used to supplement their personal forces and help enforce their own rule.

Later, a HMP would be used by Gizor Dellso's droid forces to board an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer during the Battle of Mustafar. It was destroyed, along with the droids, by the stormtroopers of the 501st Legion.

Behind the scenes
The Heavy Missile Platform resembles an early concept of the Republic gunship unused for Attack of the Clones. The head of the HMP also closely resembles that of the early concept design of the AT-AT.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Republic: The Hidden Enemy
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron

Non-canon appearances

 * Kowakian Monkey-Lizzard
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

Notes and references
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