Automated defense system

An Automated Defense System was a defense computor program, using any combination of laser cannons, turbolasers, or other weapons to defend a ship, space station or planetary fortress from enemy vessels.

History
Automated Defense Systems were in use before the New Sith Wars, but the programming was basic and could only follow predictable attack patterns. Most pilots could perdict after one or two runs and overcome with minimal difficulty. As a result, manually operated lasers were prefered and became the norm, as an operator could match a pilot's unpredictability whereas these early systems could not.

One such sytem was that defending the fortress of Belia Darzu on the legendary Dark Side planet of Tython. When Darth Bane travelled to the world seeking Darzu's knowledge of constructing Sith Holocrons, he was attacked by a pair of laser turrets working on one such system. Evading the initial attacks, Bane noticed the turrets followed an identical attack pattern as the first attempt to shoot him down on his second pass. Avoiding the turrets predictable fire, he decimated the two towers.

Appearances

 * Darth Bane: Rule of Two