Baktoid Combat Automata

This article is about the illicit Baktoid Industries subsidiary manufacturer. For more uses of Baktoid, see the disambiguation page.

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Baktoid Combat Automata was the sister company of Baktoid Armor Workshop, both of which were owned by the Techno Union and contracted with the Trade Federation. Although both companies shared similar origins and boards of directors, the two companies were otherwise totally dissimilar. While Baktoid Armor Workshop was a public company specializing in creating vehicles and large weapons, Baktoid Combat Automata operated in secret, providing the Trade Federation with illegal droids and smaller blasters for its droid army. Whereas Baktoid Armor Workshop was publicly (and dramatically) dissolved following the Trade Federation's failed blockade of Naboo, Baktoid Combat Automata continued to operate in the service of the Trade Federation and the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. Its factories on Geonosis and other worlds cranked out countless battle droids for the Separatists during that conflict. After the conclusion of the Clone Wars, the Techno Union was absorbed by the newly-formed Galactic Empire, and Baktoid Combat Automata was dissolved, along with other companies associated with the Union, in the process.

By the Legacy era, the company was reformed and became known as Baktoid Industrial Systems, manufacturer of the HV-7 loading droid and LV8-series guard droid (some of their engineers having fled with their research and reorganized after the formation of the Galactic Alliance).

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The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology claims the company survived into the New Republic era, but The New Essential Guide to Droids says it no longer existed. In Star Wars Galaxies (ca. 1.5 ABY) it is mentioned as being controlled by Imperial forces. The contradiction was explained by the Legacy Era Campaign Guide, which stated that the company was absorbed by the Empire, but some of its engineers had resurrected Baktoid as Baktoid Industrial Systems after the establishment of the Galactic Alliance.