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Entry: 103
Subject: Venator-class Star Destroyer
Status: Canon
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When people recall the days of the Clone Wars, no warship is more memorable than the Venator-class. The first true Destroyer, the Venator was an 1,137m vessel that could do it all: troop transport, starfighter carrier, escort, one-ship fleet, and as it's name implies, a Destroyer.

The ship was designed by Lira Blissex, the mastermind behind the Imperial-class and Executor-class. Made by KDY, the Venator was designed as an all-purpose multi-role ship that could do it all.

Standard, each vessel came with these weapons:

8 Heavy Dual Turbolasers
2 Medium Dual Turbolasers
52 Point-Defense Lasers
6 Tractor Beam Projectors
4 Heavy Proton Torpedo Tubes
8 Turbolaser Cannons

As can be seen, by default these vessels were far more heavily armed than either version of the Acclamator-class. When the warship premiered in 22 BBY, it was the most powerful mass-produced military warship in the history of the galaxy.

In addition to this, the ship also carried:

192 Alpha-3 Nimbus V-Wing Fighters
36 ARC-170 Heavy Starfighters
192 Eta-2 Actis-class Light Interceptors
40 LAAT/i Gunships
24 AT-TEs, AT-RTs, and AT-ATs
Various Shuttles
2,000 Clonetroopers
20,000 Tons of Cargo

By and by, if this ship was anything, it was a Starfighter Carrier. Even though the Imperial-class was nearly 500m longer, the Venator-class carried as much as nine wings of craft, plus its walkers and troopers. Crew count was 7,400. There was only two years worth of consumables.

What set this ship apart was the three hangar doors the ship had, two on each side of the ship like other vessels, plus a massive door on top of the ship that could unload entire squadrons of starfighters out at the same time, a feat no ship then or now can replicate.

Also, note the dual bridges. The ship has two of them, one for commanding the ship itself, like with most other vessels. The second, however was starfighter command, controlling the hundreds of fighters the Venator deployed during battle.

Despite the success of this ship, especially on planets like Utapau, Mygeeto, and Coruscant, the ship was eventually phased out of service and replaced by the Imperial-class. What ships remained were relagated to backworlds.

Entry: 105
Subject: Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-Wing Starfighter
Status: Canon
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Kuat Systems Engineering, the starfighter production branch of Kuat Drive Yards, churned out lots of ships up to and during the Clone Wars. This is one of them.

The Alpha-3 was a tiny, light Interceptor. Shielded, armed with a pair of blaster cannons, and capable of carrying an intergrated astromech, these were some of the smallest ships available to the Republic. So small, in fact, that it had no hyperdrive, and relied entirely on a base or carrier. They also lacked life support, meaning pilots had to have a fully sealed vac-suit.

While their exact date of release is unknown, they were in service and used as the most common starfighter on most vessels by the Battle of Coruscant in 19 BBY.

When the Imperial-class superceded the Venator-class as the premier ship of the line in the Imperial Navy, so was the V-Wing replaced by the TIE Fighter. Gradually, both the Venator and V-Wing were pushed back to policing the worlds along the outer rim, or in the security forces of various planets and private sectors,

Entry: 107
Subject: Eta-2 Actis-class Light Interceptor
Status: Canon
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Want something that's fast as a bullet, fits in a shoebox, and has minimal features?

Meet the Eta-2 the Smart Car of the Star wars universe.

When I say these things are tiny, these things are tiny. Aside from a bare minimum of consumables, targeting systems, and life support, these things are little more than a pair of lasers, with wings, strapped to an engine.

Armament was pretty heavy, despite it's diminuitive size: two laser cannons and two ion cannons. Despite this, the ship lacked the power to fire continuously for long periods, even with the radiator-panel/wings opened up.

As it's name implies, this vessel is a light interceptor, specializing in speed and hunting down enemy fighters. It was also the vehicle of choice for Jedi, who often piloted variants of the ship sans navigational and sensor equipment, making them even faster. Two such vessels were piloted by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker during the Battle of Coruscant. Anakin later also piloted as green one to Mustafar, and as Darth Vader, used a black one around the time of the Subjugation of Kashyyk.

This vessel was eventually phased out by the TIE Fighter, and was truly replaced by the TIE Interceptor nineteen years after the end of the Clone Wars.

Entry: 109
Type: Canon
Identity: The Dark Reaper
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The Dark Reaper was created by the Sith during the Great Hyperspace War as a weapon against the Galactic Republic, but no one knows who exactly had built it or how much damage it had caused during the war.

It was rediscovered by the Krath later on during the Great Sith War, which suggests it was never destroyed by the Rebulic only buried or hidden.

The immense weapon required massive amounts of energy to function which the Krath provided by having the Dark Reaper target the Living Force as it's source of power. After fallen Jedi Ulic Qel-Droma's return from the Krath he shared his knowledge on how to defeat the Reaper with the Jedi.

After the war, the Jedi Order had each piece of the Dark Repear scattered to the far reaches of the galaxy, no one knows the exact planets each piece had been sent but it's believed it was mostly Outer Rim worlds.

Four Thousand Years after it's first two appearances, Count Dooku and the mercenary Cydon Prax went searching for each piece, finding the Force Harvester, one of the key components to the Dark Reaper on the junkyard world of Raxus Prime. After testing the Force Harvester on one of the moons of Kashyyyk, half of the moons forest life had been obliterated in the test. After the successful test Dooku had the Harvester drain energy from other worlds Mon Calamari, Agamar and Bakura to be precise.

Dooku later brought the pieces of the Dark Reaper together and re-activated it on the planet of Thule, it was then destroyed once and for all by Anikin Skywalker using the training he recieved from Ulic Qel-Droma's specter.

Entry: 111
Type: Canon
Identity: BX-series Droid Commando
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The BX-series droid commando's bore similarities to their B-1 Battle Droid counterparts in the way there chassis was built, although the BX seemed to carry more intelligence than that of the B-1 or B-2 which would be an obvious factor for stealth commando operations.

Carrying over many of the same operating abilities as the regular battle droids, one thing in particular would be the usage of the droid phrase "Roger roger", with there humanish shape and additions of infiltration software, the BX's were able to fight in side the armours used by the clones troopers and so also the Senate Guard's armour as well. They also came with a voice modulator; they were able to mimic voices but couldn't copy a subjects vocabulary or mannerisms. Like the B-1's they weren't very adaptable to unexpected situations inside or out of combat.

With harder armour the BX's were able to withstand at least more than a few shots from a DC-15 rifle, along with the standard weapon of the B-1 droid the E-5 blaster rifle they also carried stun batons and fusion cutters, it was also seen that the commanding droid of each BX unit carried a vibrosword for close combat.

Entry: 113
Subject: Delta-7 Aethersprite-class Light Interceptor
Status: Canon
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Also known as the "Jedi Starfighter", the Delta-7 was a precursor to the numerous ships that saw service during the Clone Wars.

Developped by Walex Blissex (the same brain behind the Alpha-3 V-Wing and RZ-1 A-Wing), this ship was known for it's small size and speed. So small in fact, that it lacked an internal hyperdrive, and required either a carrier ship or hyperdrive ring. Weapons consisted of two pairs of laser cannons.

Because of it's shape and sub-par targeting systems, most pilots ended up blowing their nose cones off. To compensate with this, the Delta-7 was often produced with a Astromech droid built into the hull, to prevent this from happening.

This vessel saw most action with Jedi in the cockpits. Because of their Jedi senses, the Jedi pilots didn't need an Astromech for targeting systems, like the R3-D series. Instead, Jedi usually used the Navigation-orientated R4-P.

This vessel saw one upgrade, in the Delta-7B. The sole difference in the two vessels, the 7B being released around 20 BBY, was that the droid socket was located in the middle of the ship, and could be fitted with full-size astromechs. One of these vessels was piloted by Plo Koon.

Eventually, the Delta-7 was outdated and replaced by the smaller, more powerful and refined Eta-2 Actis, by 19 BBY. Shortly after the Clone Wars, Kuat sold its designs to SantheSienar, who quickly cancelled and phased out both starfighters.

Today, the Delta-7 lives on as the inspiration for the newer R-22 Spearhead, the precursor to the RZ-1 A-Wing.

Entry: 115
Subject: Scorpenek Annihilator Droid
Status: Canon
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Meet the droideka's evil twin brother. The Scorpenek stands at 3.5m tall, with four spider-like legs, a retractable torso with infrared eye, and a pair of dual rapid-fire laser cannons, as well as a shield strong enough to defend against even tanks.

The result: a droid of unmatched power. These things were rumored to take on a dozen AT-TEs and walk away without so much as a scratch, and mow down platoons of infantry. There's no sugarcoating it: if you see one of these things, run the hell away.

Following Order 66 and the assasination of the Separtist leaders, Emperor Palpatine made sure to grab as many of these deactivated droids, and stashed them away at the Imperial Department of Military Research. rumor has it that he plans on incorporating them into the Army, and that some units are already used as guards at his throneworld of Byss.

Entry: 117
Subject: Protocal droid
Status: Canon
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Protocal droids are a series of droids built to resemble humanoids, and designed to interact with them.

Protocal droids' primary functions are to serve as diplomatic and language interpretors and translators. They feature vast storage banks filled with data on the language and cultures of thousands of species. Some droids, such as C-3PO, claimed to be able to speak over 3,000,000 languages and dialects.

But, as noted, protocal droids also provide cultural knowledge. Much like State advisors, a protocal droid is usually programmed with the customs and ways of life of various creatures, so if you ever need their services, you can avoid offending potentially hostile aliens.

Because of their close interactions with sentients, protocal droids are equipped with audio and visual sensors that allow them to decipher information similar to most humanoids.

Protocal droids also come with fairly advanced personality packages. More than any other droid, not only can they speak and interact like a sentient, but they actually can think like one, even if from an objective point of view.

Though they can be handmade, most Protocal Droids are made by Cybot Galactica.

Notable protocal droids include C-3PO, 4-LOM, TC-14, and C-3PX