B3 ultra battle droid
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B3 ultra battle droid |
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5 meters |
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- "This is new…"
- ―Mace Windu to Saesee Tiin at the Battle of Iktotch[src]
The B3 ultra battle droid was a powerful prototype battle droid designed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems and deployed approximately five months after the Battle of Geonosis.
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[edit] Characteristics
The B3 ultra battle droid was based on the B2 super battle droid model, though it was far larger and bulkier than the B2. The B3 had two large arms fitted with a flamethrower and a wide-spray plasma cannon. Two smaller arms, located underneath the primary limbs, featured deadly rapid-fire blasters, similar to the B2 battle droid. In addition, the ultra droid had a magazine of brilliant missiles located to the left of its large, neckless head. The B3 also had a density projector to increase its weight, keeping it from falling over in combat. It was powerful enough to take on Jedi.
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- "…but clearly, even your acrobatics weren't enough to stop that thing."
- ―Saesee Tiin to Mace Windu at the Battle of Iktotch[src]
B3 units were used by the Trade Federation for frontline assaults against well defended targets. They were often used in place of droidekas, being far cheaper than the destroyer droids.
Jedi Masters Mace Windu and Saesee Tiin faced an ultra battle droid at the Battle of Iktotch, and though their individual skills were not enough to overcome the behemoth, the Jedi worked together to defeat it, eventually destroying it by crushing it under the remains of a Hailfire droid. They were also used during the Outer Rim Sieges.
After the Clone Wars, hundreds of units were used at the Imperial Academy's urban-warfare training zone on the planet of Carida.
