For Honor
- Intent: To provide a droid support unit to Corellian Ground Forces
- Image Source: Gifs: Cut from Halo Wars Trailer; "Halo Wars 2 Concept part Art 1" and "Halo Wars 2 concept art part 2" by Ignacio Bazan-Lazcano;
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Corellian Confederation [Development]; Starbound Industries [Construction]
- Affiliation: Corellian Confederation
Closed-Market
[*]Model: Colossus-Type Battle Droid
[*]
Production: Minor
[*]Modularity: Color
[*]Material: Standard Droid building Materials
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
- Classification: Fourth Degree
- Weight: ~7500 Kilograms~
- Height: 3.7 Meters
- Movement: Bipedal
- Armaments:
Anti-Armor Mass Driver Cannon [Left Arm] - Retractable Repeating Blaster Cannon [Right Arm]
- Tight-Spray Flame Thrower [Right Hand]
[*]Misc. Equipment:
- Droid Brain
- Vocabulator
- Photoreceptors
- Holoprojector
- Life-Form Scanner
- Internal ComLink
- Audio Ampliphier/Recorder
- Macrobinocular Vission
- Video Recorder
- Memory Crystal
SPECIAL FEATURES
Strengths:
- Versatile: With its anti-armor weapon and asortment of anti-personell weapons, the Colossus-Type Battle Droid is a useful battlefield companion.
- Flow of Battle: Advanced actuators and the use of Flexisteel in its construction allowed the Colossus-Type Battle Droids to keep up with infantry and properly support them. It was also able to traverse most terrains.
- Learner: Equipped with heuristic processors, the Colossus-Type Battle Droid was over time able to learn from its experiences and use them to form new solutions to new problems.
- Physicality: The Colossus-Type Battle Droid was a large droid capeable of feats of great strength.
- Ground-Based: Mines and other ground-based traps are very effective if laid effectively.
- EMP/Ion: The good old fashioned "droid popper" or ion-based weapons will disable the droid, even medium powered handheld ion weapons.
- Sink, No Swim: While the Colossus-Type can traverse on most types of terrain, it did have difficulty traveling through loose sand, snow, and loose rocky terrain making them less than ideal for these environments. They also couldn't swim and had the tendency to sink in thick bogs and swamps.
After the raid on Vasar it became clear to Corellian High Command that a handful of scout artillery walkers and a small garrison wasn't enough to defend the Outer Systems. Developed alongside several other top-secret projects, the Colossus-Type Battle Droid was one proposed solution to better defense. Standing at almost 4 meters tall, the Colossus-Type was an extremely capable fighting machine commonly deployed in groups of two or three alongside most ground-based units. Equipped with a wrist mounted repeating blaster cannon and flamethrower it was an effective anti-personnel droid while its mass driver cannon and nimble design expanded its mission profile to a light anti-armor and reconnaissance.
Colossus-Type Battle Droids were also used in military construction as their height and strength made them ideal for setting up pre-fabricated bases, military fortifications, and moving cargo around on large vessels. Often, Colossus-Type Battle Droids would stay with a particular unit, especially in the case of Halcyon Commandos where they would become an integral part to their fireteams and heavily relied upon combat support droids. Despite their effectiveness in combat however, they fell through the same pitfalls as most other droids. They were constructed quickly and as cheaply as possible, resulting in a lack of any shielding or ion protection. They were also heavy and very dense which made them impossible to use in large bodies of water. Loose footing could also see the droids swallowed up in the heat of battle.
Despite these pitfalls however, they were well liked by infantry units throughout the Confederation and were heavily featured in propaganda and recruitment art and literature. They were even made into several popular toys and models for children and hobbyists.
