Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research

"My contacts have uncovered a source of Data Fragments abandoned by the Empire's old Advanced Weapons Research division, once directed by Orson Krennic."

- Kada Jahr

Advanced Weapons Research, also known as the Imperial weapons division, the Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research, or Imperial Advance Weapon Development, was an agency of the Galactic Empire responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. It existed within the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order's Imperial Security Bureau.

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, 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.

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.

Despite Krennic's death, the group continued and was responsible for the construction of the second Death Star.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront II
 * Darth Vader Annual 2
 * Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
 * Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization
 * Star Wars: Rogue One: A Junior Novel
 * Star Wars: Rogue One Graphic Novel Adaptation
 * Rogue One Adaptation 1
 * Rogue One Adaptation 2
 * Rogue One Adaptation 3
 * Rogue One Adaptation 4
 * Rogue One Adaptation 5
 * Rogue One Adaptation 6
 * Star Wars Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Commander
 * Rogue One Adaptation 6
 * Star Wars Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Commander
 * Star Wars: Commander