Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries

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Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries was a company that designed and manufactured starfighters, including droid starfighters. In association with the Colla Designs corporation, the company produced the droid tri-fighter in vast quantities while working as the Confederacy of Independent Systems naval forces' fightercraft designers during the Clone Wars. Phlac-Arphocc also helped supply the Baktoid Fleet Ordnance and Haor Chall Engineering firms with exotic and superdense radioactive fuel, when they were building the HMP droid gunship for the Separatists.

Description

Phlac-Arphocc Automata was a company that manufactured and designed starfighters. Alongside models of droid starfighters, the company worked cooperatively with another—the corporation Colla Designs—to construct the droid tri-fighter. Phlac-Arphocc used exotic and superdense radioactive fuels in its fightercraft.[2]

History

Phlac-Arphocc's prototype tri-fighter under construction

Phlac-Arphocc's prototype tri-fighter under construction

Established at some point during the Republic Era, Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries associated itself with the Colla Designs. When the Clone Wars began between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems,[1] from 22 BBY to 19 BBY,[3] the company firmed with the Confederacy to build and design starfighters for its armada.[2] In the later stages of the conflict, Phlac-Arphocc was commissioned to create a new class of aerospace superiority starfighter, with design schemes supplied from the manufacturers of Colicoid Creation Nest.[1]

The droid tri-fighter was then produced[1] for fighting Republic ARC-170 and V-wing starfighters in close-range dogfighting and combating Jedi pilots,[4] beginning with a prototype model[5] and later being built in vast quantities. From their initial deployment, Phlac-Arphocc's droid tri-fighter became the most feared and hated of the Separatists' fielded models engaged by Republic forces, as well as one of the best starfighters deployed in the galaxy.[1] Later, Phlac-Arphocc offered their stockpiles of superdense radioactive fuel to the companies Baktoid Fleet Ordnance and Haor Chall Engineering, when the HMP droid gunship was being created for the Separatist military.[2]

Behind the scenes

Phlac-Arphocc Automate Industries was introduced in the current Star Wars canon in the fifty-third of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series,[6] published around January 6, 2016.[7] In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the company Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries was originally introduced in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-Sections, a 2005 reference book authored by Curtis Saxton.[8]

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Collapse of the Republic
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Star Wars Complete Vehicles, New Edition
  3. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines
  4. ↑ "Droid Tanks and Vehicles, and Other Mechanicals" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
  5. ↑ Star Wars: X-Wing Second Edition — Droid Tri-Fighter Expansion Pack Card: Phlac-Arphocc Prototype — Droid Tri-Fighter
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 53 Starship Fact File: Droid Tri-Fighter
  7. ↑ The second issue of the De Agostini weekly magazine Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon was set to be published on January 14, 2015, according to Premium-Era-real De Agostini Publishing: Build the Millennium Falcon Magazine & Model by Chris Wyman on TheForce.net (January 8, 2015) (backup link archived on November 6, 2016). Therefore, Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 53 was published around January 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-Sections
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