Chain-fed ordnance launchers replaces the laser cannons of its predecessors, with the reserves of ammunition stored within the hollows of its bulbous head, although some models do retain laser cannons as seen in the Battle of Christophsis.

To counter their shortcomings, vulture droids often attack en masse. While droid starfighters are capable of maneuvers that would crush even the sturdiest organic pilot, they lack the resourcefulness and cunning that living pilots bring into combat. The Techno Union decided to reduce costs by scaling up the size of previous models. The effectiveness of droid starfighters has been debated in strategic circles for generations. It's almost impossible to approach such droids, as all sides conceivably faced the front.Ĭertain battlefield demands led to the creation of a larger model: the Octuptarra Magna Tri-Droid. Their rotating multi-jointed assemblies allows them to change facing almost instantly and they can fire from extended ranges, though they are vulnerable in close-quarters fighting. The virus variants are nicknamed 'virus droids'.

A certain variant is filled with a gaseous virus that will be released upon the droid's destruction, which was highly effective against organic enemy troops. They are equipped with three laser turrets as standard, one on each side, below each photoreceptor. They are named after the eight-eyed, gasbag-headed vine walkers native to Skako. The stilt-legged spider-like automatons have large balloon-like heads atop their thin stalk bodies, armed with laser turrets.

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