SKYTROOPERS
Triplex-pattern

Phalanx-pattern

Taxis-pattern

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To design a new standard combat droid for the Eternal Empire.
- Image Source:
- Canon Link: Skytrooper, Class IV Droid
- Primary Source: None
- Manufacturer:
- Affiliation: Eternal Empire, Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Models: Triplex-pattern; Phalanx-pattern; Taxis-pattern
Production: Mass-Produced.- Modularity: Weapon
- Material: Duranium frame
- Classification: Fourth Degree
- Weight: 1,88 meters (Triplex & Phalanx patterns); 2,01 meters (Taxis-pattern)
- Height: 80kg (Triplex & Phalanx patterns); 114 kg (Taxis-pattern)
- Movement: Bipedal, rocket boosters
- Armaments: blaster rifle (Triplex & Phalanx patterns); missile-launcher, grenade launcher or flame-thrower (Taxis-pattern)
- Misc. Equipment: Tactical computer, advanced communication system, commander programming (Triplex-pattern), advanced fire controls (Taxis-pattern), standard battle droid components (all patterns)
Strengths:
- Wave after wave: The Skytroopers are produced in masses to overwhelm the enemy. They are far more numberous than most armies, except, of course, cheaper droid armies.
- Swift: The Skytroopers are very fast thanks to their jetpack and can deploy in very diverse way, dropping from ships or via drop and boarding pods.
- Combat computers: The Skytroopers do not rely on an external signal for their operations and can fight and advance on their own. Though the combat computers developed to send the command signal are optimising their capabilities, especially since those are focused through the Triplex-pattern command droids.
- Inferior: Battle droids lack the quality and organic understanding of situations like sentinent soldiers. They posesses no own intuition and are easy to confuse.
- Vulnerable to EMP/Ion: Droids are vulnerable to EMP or Ion weapons, which can easily shut them down.
- Jamming: Sensor and transmission jamming will seriously lower the Skytroopers performance.
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