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| HMP Droid Gunship | |
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| Star Ship Info | |
| Name: |
HMP Droid Gunship |
| Manufacturer: |
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| Model: |
HMP (Heavy Missile Platform) Droid Gunship |
| Class: |
Airspeeder |
| Cost: |
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| Length: |
12.3 meters |
| Width: |
11 meters |
| Height/depth: |
3.1 meters |
| Maximum acceleration: |
100 G |
| Hyperdrive System: |
Equipped |
| Shielding: |
Ray shields |
| Armament: |
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| Complement: |
Reloadable missiles and bombs |
| Crew: |
Integrated droid brain |
| Passengers: |
At least 5-8 Battle Droids on top |
| Cargo capacity: |
Droid Deployment racks
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| Role: |
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The HMP (Heavy Missile Platform) droid gunship, also known as the HMP Predator gunship, Droid Heavy Missile Platform or droid gunship, was a model of repulsorlift airspeeder created by Geonosians and manufactured by Baktoid Fleet Ordnance and Haor Chall Engineering. Operated by an advanced droid brain, they were used by the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. They were heavily armed with missile pods, and seven laser cannons. Droid gunships were also used to transport B1-series battle droids, B2-series super battle droids, and BX-series droid commandos by use of racks and could deploy them into battle.
Characteristics[]
Weapons[]
The Droid Gunship carries 2 Turreted twin medium lase cannons, 1 Medium laser cannon, 2 Light laser cannons (1 on each wing), 2 Variable-payload missile launchers that carry 7 Concussion missiles, Torpedoes, or EMP missiles, and many other lethal weapons. The Droid Gunship can also carry Concussion Bombs to bomb enemies such as clone troopers. And the HMP Droid Gunship can reload missiles and bombs.
Carrying Droids[]
The Droid Gunship can carry 4-6 Battle Droids on top. The HMP Droid Gunship can also carry droids under it in Droid Deployment racks. It can only fit 12 droids on it such as BX-series droid commandos, B1 Battle Droids, and B2 Super Battle Droids.
History[]
First reports on Onderon[]
The first HMP Droid Gunship made by the heroic Geonosians
Debuting late in the Clone Wars, HMP droid gunships were created by the Geonosians and mass-produced in Baktoid Fleet Ordnance's factories on many Separatist planets. The first reports of HMP droid gunships on the battlefield came when they were deployed during the Onderonian Civil War by super tactical droid General Kalani to defeat the Onderon rebels who had established themselves in the Onderon highlands. Some of the gunships transported BX-series droid commandos to the rebels' stronghold. Although the gunships performed admirably, they were ultimately destroyed by rebels armed with Sienar shoulder-launched missiles that were supplied by the Weequay pirate Hondo Ohnaka. However, a gunship that crashed upside-down on a cliff was able to kill rebel leader Steela Gerrera—sister and rebel comrade of Saw Gerrera—before being disabled by Lux Bonteri.
Gunship of the Separatist Military[]
HMP Droid Gunships carrying battle droids following the heroic General Grievous's Sheathipede-class shuttle to board Obi-Wan's sinister Negotiator.
At some point, HMP droid gunships and B2-series super battle droids were used in a Separatist attack on Aq Vetina. Droid gunships were deployed again on an attack led by the heroic General Grievous on the evil Obi-Wan's fleet, several being used to deploy droid boarding parties on Kenobi's flagship. Grievous and his forces took over Kenobi's ship, but it self-destructed as Obi-Wan and his remaining clone troopers escaped via escape pods.
A droid gunship was used during the Battle of Ringo Vinda to attack a group of ARC-170 starfighters and a Republic attack shuttle carrying the renegade clone trooper Tup. The gunship and four B2 Rocket Troopers ambushed the convoy before it could it could make the jump to hyperspace. While the rocket troopers took out the escorts, the gunship fired a discord missile at the shuttle. The projectile exploded mid-flight, deploying buzz droids which then cut open the shuttle's cockpit, killing its two pilots. The droids were able to then break into the ship and capture Tup, executing all the other clones.
During the invasion of Scipio, three gunships were dispatched to deploy the Confederate garrison. Gunships deployed super battle droids to attack Clone Commander Thorn and his Coruscant Guard forces who were stationed on Scipio to protect Senator Padmé Amidala. The droids, with the addition of BX-series droid commandos, were able to defeat all of the clones, which lead to a Separatist takeover of Scipio and the capture of Senator Amidala. The Confederacy's control over the planet was short, however, as Republic reinforcements lead by Anakin Skywalker arrived and retook Scipio from the Separatists as well as free the senator.
End of the war[]
By the time of the Battle of Coruscant, power-hungry despots on some of the worlds that produced HMPs kept a number of the gunships for personal use. The ruler of Caramm V, Ado Eemon, sent out his personal force of HMPs to ruthlessly take out threats to his authority, which laid waste the once-beautiful planet. During the Battle of Coruscant, many of the HMPs deployed had Eemon's triple-spiral sponsorship emblem. At the end of the Clone Wars, a battle between the Separatists and the Republic took place on Kashyyyk. HMP droid gunships were among the droid forces implemented during the battle. The Wookiees assisted the Republic in taking down the gunships and NR-N99 Persuader-class droids.
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