B1 Battle Droid

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B1 Battle droids were a type of military droid built by Baktoid Combat Automata and various lease corporations, making up the backbone of the Trade Federation’s and latter Confederacy’s army. Externally, they were lanky humanoid and roughly skeleton like robots with elongated heads with backpacks and were normally armed with various types of otherwise standard infantry small arms (blaster carbines, rifles, thermal detonators). As well, they could be used to operate vehicles and spacecraft in combat. While they were rather easy to destroy, they were cheap and could be turned by droid factories in very large numbers. At the end of the clone war, the droid armies of the Confederacy were shut down, although some B1 battle droids were latter reactivated by various forces.


Cognative ability

One issue that has come up involving the B1 battle droids comes from the way the droids operated during the trade federation's actions on Naboo. They were officially listed as working as having no congative copacity what so ever and being remotely controlled by a central AI aboard the droid control ship and when it was destroyed, the droid army shut down. However, the battle droids are orgenized with officer units and droids engaging in visual computation and actions clearly representing individual and independant sapient thought. To adress this fact, the most commonly agreed upon explenation about this by the fandom is that the droid control ship is not actually controlling the droids, but simply providing a keep alive signal to autonomous droids, so that in case of a droid rebellion, the Nemodians could simply cut the signal and turn them off.