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Battlesphere

Battlesphere

Production information
Manufacturer	Trade Federation^[1] Hyper-Communications Cartel^[2]
Product line	Core ships^[1]
Class	Core ship^[1] Cruiser (standard classification)^[3] Capital ship (standard classification)^[4]
Technical specifications
Power plant	Multiple reactors^[5]
Shielding	Equipped^[5]
Complement	Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark Is (at least 3)^[5] Rogue-class starfighter (at least 3)^[5] Other fighter craft^[5]
Usage
Role(s)	Listening post^[5]
Era(s)	Rise of the Empire era^[5]
Affiliation	Confederacy of Independent Systems^[5]

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The battlesphere was a core ship variant used during the Clone Wars.^[5]

1 Characteristics
2 History
3 Appearances
4 Sources
5 Notes and references

CharacteristicsEdit

Unlike the Lucrehulk-class Core Ship, the battlesphere employed multiple reactors and was fitted with more extensive hyperwave transceivers.^[5]

Its hangar facilities had enough room for several fighter squadrons. There was also a storage room for additional battle droid parts. Outlying control stations and sensors spanned out from the central sphere. The hangar bay doors could be activated from a panel on one of these.^[5]

HistoryEdit

The Confederacy of Independent Systems placed a battlesphere in the atmosphere on one of the moons of Ruusan. This Skytop Station served as an important listening post for the Separatists, enabling General Grievous to launch many successful campaigns by gaining knowledge about the Republic fleet positions through the station.^[5]

Jedi General Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano and several clone troopers infiltrated the station on a dual mission, to blow it up and to rescue R2-D2 who had been captured by the Trandoshan scavenger Gha Nachkt and brought on-board.^[5]

With the assisstance of his newly purchased EG droid, EG-07, Grievous later began drilling to the core of Mustafar to uncover an ancient superweapon hidden under the planet and placed a battlesphere similar to Skytop Station above Mustafar. The Jedi thus began an investigation ito the matter, sending Jedi Master Luminara Unduli and Commander Gree to steal Separatist recognition codes from an archive in Grievous's castle on Vassek's third moon, which theyused to infiltrate the Separatist-controlled space station Juma 9, using the station's scanners to locate the superweapon on Mustafar. Meanwhile, Grievous had found the weapon and prepared to use the battlestation's superlasers to charge the weapon, so that it could fire and spread the deadly virus which would then destroy all life in the system. Having learned of Grievous's intentions, the Jedi dispatched Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Fisto and Commander Cody to prevent the battlestation's lasers from charging the weapon. With Grievous' deception revealed, Dooku forgave the general as Grievous' plans had bought Kul Teska the time he had needed to complete his Gravitic polarization beam.^[6]