Forget starfighters, imagine the damage these droids could do to capital ships! It wouldn’t take much for these droids to penetrate a ships shield, slip through a weak point in the starships armored hull, and start disabling vital systems or using them against the crew.
Ok now hear me out, imagine if they made a Star Wars squadrons dlc for the clone wars era with a second story campaign where you can play as republic star fighters and the CIS droid star fighters and they gave you the buzz droids for an auxiliary. How horrifying would it be to see buzz droid coming at you, you could even make it even more damaging by forcing other players or AI to shoot of the buzz droids off you
Such DLC will be far too limiting in these times, since I won't expect it to be bigger and better a la Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. No, a fully voiced and well done fanmod of X-Wing Alliance Upgrade would suffice instead, just like how FreeSpace 2 got the FS1 Port and Silent Threat: Reborn remakes.
I never played squadrons so I could be wrong but I feel like having to rely that much on teammates with something like buzzdroids would be incredibly over powered. Unless they provided some type of counter measure like how in titanfall when a enemy pilot jumps on your titan you can deploy electrical smoke to remove them
@@michaelandreipalon359 in terms of vehicles the clone wars had far more variety then in the galactic Republic but like I said in a different comment I never played squadron so I don't know what you mean by it being limiting
@@iamgamerfun4032 A game like Squadrons just doesn't seem to handle the amount of content that the likes of TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance have, alongside the unlikelyhood of the game even having a passion project-level DLC/expansion pack... and then there's the lack of modding capability.
As a pilot i think that would be my worst fear most other droids juts blow you up making it quick but you would have to sit there and watch as these dam things pulled your craft apart
@@brianrunyon266You should see what they’d do to anti-fighter corvettes in Empire at War! A big reason why I was addicted to StarViper/Crusader oriented fleets in Empire at War, Forces of Corruption.
A nuke in hard vacuume is much less deadly as there is no real shock wave otherthan the solid components of the nuke itself popping off into all directions rather it is more effective as a sort of hard radiation or EM pulse weapon for knocking out electronics and possibly microwaving anyone too close into a microwaved hotdog Source: not saying
@@marsfreelander5969 I know, and I'm not a huge fan of them in almost every work of fiction that uses them as weapons, especially if and when far more cleaner and more destructive lasers and plasma exist.
Hey Geetsly’s, I’ve recently rewatched The Forgotten One Clone Wars fan series and was wondering how did the Republic deal with MIA troopers? Did they ever send out search parties if there were any leads or did they just mark a trooper/unit as MIA and move on? If a larger unit like a company or an entire battalion was MIA, how would the GAR respond? Thanks
I think these things would be absolutely terrifying to witness. It's honestly shocking Star Wars doesn't have much R rated content with how gruesome these wars would probably end up being.
I thinks there are two reasons why we don’t see Buzz droids continuing on in latter battles, aside from the obvious cancellation of production on these droids: 1. Since the Clone Wars, starfighter weaponry was becoming more powerful, like the twin ion laser cannons of the tie fighter or the s-foil guns of an X-wing. With the higher damage output of these ship weapons, firing a discord missile at an enemy isn’t just cruel given that the droid would eat at the enemy ship, but it’s a lot slower to bring a starship down than just blasting them with a proton torpedo. 2. The usage of Buzz droids and their discord missles arises because droid starfighters like vulture droids (not so much tri-fighters) and limited in intelligence, alongside their armor and intergraded laser cannon systems showing age when countering newer republic craft. So in order to stay relevant, the buzz droids changed the vulture droids, by keeping their advantages in speed and numbers, while adding a chaotic element that can scare organic pilots, at least in close combat situations.
Those insect tech designers certainly proved their weight in gold when it came to designing some of the most deadliest and dangerous droids, fighters and weapons for the CIS. That certainly gave the republic a run for their money and made their final victory all the more harder to achieve.,
Do EMP's exist in Star wars. They do as missiles right? If I had a ship in SW, I'd make sure it had a electrically charged hull, so they'd get shocked if they drilled on it, and a EMP button to activate if they're too numerous.
This sounds way too sexist. In her defense, the darn things surprised her, while Obi-Wan, with the usual Jedi calmness expected of him, already saw enough buzz droid brutality to even react much.
Eugh... I love droids, and even these little monsters to be sure, but they have the side effect of giving me a fairly pronounced case of the crawlies. I prefer to admire them from a distance where possible.
The Buzz droid was originally a Repair Droid. With the schematics Sidious uploaded into them, a bit of reprogramming back to original purpose will grant you free labor for starfighter production.
Really wonder why they didn’t use these more. Just a few Buzz Missiles fired at a capital ship would be able to slowly chew into it, shutting off life support, causing shortages, and gradually moving further and further towards the core of the ship. The capital ship would literally have to send out personnel armed with weapons and vacume suits to get rid of them all…and good luck doing that in the middle of a battle!
@@stevenschnepp576When 3 buzz droids could be all that's needed to tear a humanoid caught half a second off guard apart, i doubt damage control teams, which rarely have more than a dozen members each, could take on swarms that'd usually come in the hundreds each for attacking something as huge as capital ships. Even if such damage control teams are able to contain 90% of the buzz droids sent their way, the remaining 10% that fall through the cracks are more than enough to continue wrecking whatever complicated delicate systems are on their way, before the damage control teams could clean them all out in time.
My best guess would be the sheer scale of the target. It takes multiple to effect the quite frankly minuscule ETA-2 Actis fighters, just how long and how many would it take for them to do anything meaningful to a Acclamator or Venator? There’s also the question of how long they could operate for because when you look at the body these things there is no such thing as wasted space and with so many different limbs, sensors, and in some cases dual blasters, they’d need to use a considerable amount of energy on something that likely doesn’t have a charging station for them. After that it becomes an issue of what could they reasonably damage, could they breach the hull like on fighters or would they need another way into the ship? Once they do get inside what stops the crew from just sealing that room and venting it back out to space? In the Clone Wars episode with D-squad and the stolen Venator an open airlock sucks out a whole swarm of Buzz droids.
@@quox3987 A ship, even one built & meant to operate in space, ain't gonna be all covered in armor plating without an inch to exploit, moreso when shielding being so damn common. There's bound to be at least gaps that most organics can't reach to be exploited by something so small. Operation time needn't be taken into account, as SW battery tech is far more advanced than our own in the real world, which one can easily tell seeing even the likes of b1s being able to run for days doing combat without needing recharging. Buzz droids, despite their size & compactness, i'd say can run for at least a full day without running outta power. Finally, when the buzz droids manage to worm their way into said big ships, there'd be loads of spaces, UNARMORED spaces, for them to do whatever they please, that organics can't easily get access to. Imagine the likes of roaches getting under couches & behind closets. A great deal more of such spaces in ships than regular houses & apartment units. Measures like sealing off rooms would be limited at best, & totally useless at worst, given how easily such small droids can just tunnel their way out in those out-of-reach spaces, where delicate parts of critical systems can definitely be found, which they can make a mess of.
Put yourself in the cockpit of a Star Fighter in some of the most intense space battle of the war, and there hundreds of thousands of dogfights all across the battlefield, and then unfortunately pass into a yellow cloud and then suddenly your entire Star Fighter is cover by dozens of buzz droids that are eagerly ripping apart your Star Fighter and there usually nothing you can do unless if you are waiting to die a vicious death in your Star Fighter. That is why these little mechanical monsters are feared by veterans pilots and veterans of those space battles.
As a kid doing Star Wars fan fiction in the 1990’s I had come up with something similar, it was a fighter-sized droid in the shape of a virus that would cut a hole in the hull of a Capital ship and inject the ship with a bunch of small spider-like droids that were essentially walking bombs. The walking bomb droids would find critical system and detonate. Another twist of that (which would complete the virus analogy a lot better) would be small droids that could hijack control of the ship.
Yeah that does sound like a weird version of a buzz droid but also very intriguing because it can produce more copies of themselves meaning it takes one of those droids to complete trash an entire squad of starfighters compared to an entire swarm of buzz droids
If I have my lore correct. Another tactic would be to let out Buzz droid mines along a major hyperspace route. Ships would trigger the mines and get dismantled and the droids would just drift in the hyperspace lane until they could be rounded up. Shutting down major travel and commerce lanes for months or even years on end.
Anything that reminds me of the Spy Kids cringefests by the otherwise talented Robert Rodriguez. Barring that, some would say Rosh from the Jedi Academy video game, although I actually pity him for being too lucky (unlucky?) to not have as much excitement and adventure as his friend (and player character) Jaden Korr.
LOL R2's evil cousin. Both psychotic little brats, but the Buzz Droid was given a desire and love for hurting things; especially biologicals. I can picture them hanging out after TCW laughing about the various battles and straight up wars they were in. "Hey... You were with the Jedi with a scar on his face at Coruscan. Right?" "Wait... Yeah! I do remember you!" "That was a really good shot, by the way. Nearly killed me." "Thanks. You were pretty good too. Looks like a fun job; dismantling." "You should try it sometime. Find a nice junkyard and dig in." "Being built for it and never reprogrammed against it, I really enjoy repair. But it can get old sometimes." Takes another draw from the power pack. "Hey Bartender! I'll take another power pack when you get to it! Make it spicy!" "One Unsteady Betty, coming up!"
Now, imagined the Rebels Alliance deployed the buzz droids in the space battles. Just think of how much damages they can do to the TIE-Fighters and the Star Desrtroyers if deployed in significant number!
Buzz droids go against the mantra of the Rebels. They're something of a terror weapon. Something the Rebellion avoids using. I could certainly see Saul's Partisans using them though.
Crazy idea, remember that time C-3PO had his head attached to a B1 body (upgrade IMHO)? What would happen if you put a buzz droid "head" on a B1 body? Anyway keep up the good work 👏🏻
One of the dumbest designs in all of Star Wars. Imagine if instead of all that nonsense they simply armed them with an explosive and turned them into smart suicide drones. The republican casualties would have been enormous and it would have absolutely included Anakin. Seriously the nonsense of getting drone to try and dismantle a ship instead of just blowing it up. I get that Lucas always planned Star Wars to be primarily for children but come on
Wait a minute, I just thought of something, if the Buzz Ddroids could magnetize themselves, why didn't any of them do that to avoid getting sucked out the airlock when M5-BZ opened the airlock on the Venator during the D-Sqaud arc?
I need to say that I find buzz droids a little useless You don't need them when your normal starfighters alone are better then the starfighter from the enemies
Imagine what would happen if these things were deployed in our world on the battlefield. Tanks would be rendered useless, aircraft’s would fall from the sky and entire enemy encampments would be sent into utter chaos. Given how potentially dangerous these things could be perhaps it’s best that we don’t have something like these in our world, undoubtedly they might have to be banned for use in war or at least heavily restricted to military targets only.
For every weapon that exists, there are ways to counter them. One method is active protective systems for tanks that can defeat the missile carrying it before it hits. Or even a new kind of ERA that can repel such attacks if they manage to get on the tank. Having metal harder than the droid's cutting tools wouldn't hurt either. For aircraft a good method is advancing your standard anti-missile techniques like chaff, flares, and if possible stealth that can defeat the missile delivery system. Not to mention anti-missile missiles. Along with the possibility of laser point defense. Though if all else fails, just have some of your own to protect equipment from other buzz droids.
“They were even know to eat each other in times of stress” *looks awkwardly at old news article about that crashed plane in the mountains* To be real for moment, humanity ain’t far off on that note either. Prob even argument, most sentient species would resort to it when desperate enough.
The only thing that bugs me about the buzz droids is they’re deployed by a tracking missile. Like, if you’re going to going to hit em with a missile anyways just make it explode
I would take like 100 reprogram them to there original use and switch some tools and have deployable pit crews especially with that many leftover add like r2 style personality or something like if the falcon had that it’s reputation of junky might not have been a thing
What hasn't been imitated from nature and then turned into something useful . You are the stewards of all that's been earned. Think about it, food for thought.
8:54 Reactivated or deactivated? It doesn't make sense for them to be "reactivated" at the end of the CW, you would think it would be after they were reactivated
![The Mechanisms of the Separatist's Most Fearsome Droids: CIS Elite Droid Database [Vol. 1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z8UewMLZ4xg/mqdefault.jpg)
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Forget starfighters, imagine the damage these droids could do to capital ships! It wouldn’t take much for these droids to penetrate a ships shield, slip through a weak point in the starships armored hull, and start disabling vital systems or using them against the crew.
Now imagine these droids having Von Neumann properties.
In Legends that happened with a Viper droid
@@noahcheckman8542a viper probe droid?
@@mill2712become like a bezerker, a tech hunter-killer that spreads across the galaxy.
... For a few minutes, before the damage control teams neutralize them.
Ok now hear me out, imagine if they made a Star Wars squadrons dlc for the clone wars era with a second story campaign where you can play as republic star fighters and the CIS droid star fighters and they gave you the buzz droids for an auxiliary. How horrifying would it be to see buzz droid coming at you, you could even make it even more damaging by forcing other players or AI to shoot of the buzz droids off you
Such DLC will be far too limiting in these times, since I won't expect it to be bigger and better a la Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. No, a fully voiced and well done fanmod of X-Wing Alliance Upgrade would suffice instead, just like how FreeSpace 2 got the FS1 Port and Silent Threat: Reborn remakes.
I never played squadrons so I could be wrong but I feel like having to rely that much on teammates with something like buzzdroids would be incredibly over powered. Unless they provided some type of counter measure like how in titanfall when a enemy pilot jumps on your titan you can deploy electrical smoke to remove them
@@michaelandreipalon359 in terms of vehicles the clone wars had far more variety then in the galactic Republic but like I said in a different comment I never played squadron so I don't know what you mean by it being limiting
@@iamgamerfun4032 A game like Squadrons just doesn't seem to handle the amount of content that the likes of TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance have, alongside the unlikelyhood of the game even having a passion project-level DLC/expansion pack... and then there's the lack of modding capability.
I can easily imagine someone using a Buzz Droid as a demented parody of the classic Star Wars droid friend .
As a pilot i think that would be my worst fear most other droids juts blow you up making it quick but you would have to sit there and watch as these dam things pulled your craft apart
A dirty weapon, the buzz droid, but an admittedly novel and successful one compared to disgusting nukes.
Given how they wreck Star Fighters, am sure they might have been inspired by stories of Gremlins.
@@brianrunyon266You should see what they’d do to anti-fighter corvettes in Empire at War! A big reason why I was addicted to StarViper/Crusader oriented fleets in Empire at War, Forces of Corruption.
Starwars does have nukes too
A nuke in hard vacuume is much less deadly as there is no real shock wave otherthan the solid components of the nuke itself popping off into all directions rather it is more effective as a sort of hard radiation or EM pulse weapon for knocking out electronics and possibly microwaving anyone too close into a microwaved hotdog
Source: not saying
@@marsfreelander5969 I know, and I'm not a huge fan of them in almost every work of fiction that uses them as weapons, especially if and when far more cleaner and more destructive lasers and plasma exist.
I love CIS Droids, they are just so cool.
Deadly droids that made the galaxy tremble by a secret sithlord, paid for by a bag of Jawa Jerky
The more the Separatist navy is discussed, the more of a miracle (or dependent on Sidious) that the Republic navy were victorious
The fact their shells are for getting through shields is something i didn't know! I always wondered why they had them.
I remember the girls in the audiences aweing and cooing when they saw these bois during the screening of ROTS.
Hey Geetsly’s, I’ve recently rewatched The Forgotten One Clone Wars fan series and was wondering how did the Republic deal with MIA troopers? Did they ever send out search parties if there were any leads or did they just mark a trooper/unit as MIA and move on? If a larger unit like a company or an entire battalion was MIA, how would the GAR respond? Thanks
Null-ARC pacification duties, for one.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the buzz droids that Thrawn unused.
wow their older model looks like a modern day drone
I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I was flying a Star fighter and saw a swarm of buzz droids coming my way, I might pee myself. 😬
Facts
I think these things would be absolutely terrifying to witness. It's honestly shocking Star Wars doesn't have much R rated content with how gruesome these wars would probably end up being.
"Holy shit they’ve got gremlins"
Tyber Zann also used Buzz Droids in his Zann consortium
I thinks there are two reasons why we don’t see Buzz droids continuing on in latter battles, aside from the obvious cancellation of production on these droids:
1. Since the Clone Wars, starfighter weaponry was becoming more powerful, like the twin ion laser cannons of the tie fighter or the s-foil guns of an X-wing. With the higher damage output of these ship weapons, firing a discord missile at an enemy isn’t just cruel given that the droid would eat at the enemy ship, but it’s a lot slower to bring a starship down than just blasting them with a proton torpedo.
2. The usage of Buzz droids and their discord missles arises because droid starfighters like vulture droids (not so much tri-fighters) and limited in intelligence, alongside their armor and intergraded laser cannon systems showing age when countering newer republic craft. So in order to stay relevant, the buzz droids changed the vulture droids, by keeping their advantages in speed and numbers, while adding a chaotic element that can scare organic pilots, at least in close combat situations.
I love the high pitch voice they used.
Those insect tech designers certainly proved their weight in gold when it came to designing some of the most deadliest and dangerous droids, fighters and weapons for the CIS. That certainly gave the republic a run for their money and made their final victory all the more harder to achieve.,
7:42 forgot to edit out the double take
They are like a virus love buzz droids they are so cool and funny looking
the buzzed droid
like the buzz droid but drunk
Do EMP's exist in Star wars. They do as missiles right? If I had a ship in SW, I'd make sure it had a electrically charged hull, so they'd get shocked if they drilled on it, and a EMP button to activate if they're too numerous.
Please do a video on the cis navy structure and ranks
So droideka means Droid droid
I'm not going lie
When I first saw these little bastards, they kinda scared me when I was a kid.
6:38. What kind of droid is that? Is that a Buzz Droid concept?
Obi-Wan: Flying's for droids.
Have you covered the seperatiast probe droid?
For wookie bounty hunters!
Gremlin droids.
Obi-Wan: calm while being shredded by buzz droids
Leia: scared by mynocks
This sounds way too sexist. In her defense, the darn things surprised her, while Obi-Wan, with the usual Jedi calmness expected of him, already saw enough buzz droid brutality to even react much.
@@michaelandreipalon359 I wasn't trying to be sexist
@@tristynbishop6158 Chauvinistic, mayhaps?
@@michaelandreipalon359being sexist or chauvinistic wasn't my intention, I was just contrasting
Eugh... I love droids, and even these little monsters to be sure, but they have the side effect of giving me a fairly pronounced case of the crawlies. I prefer to admire them from a distance where possible.
1:55
Lookin like a DMT induced machine world, what's the source of this image? I'd love to add it to my tripping collection
There is a reason I spammed these things in Forces of Corruption.
Of all the droids the CIS used, these are definitely the most annoying
The Senate found Obi Wan EVEN more annoying than the buzz droid.
I ask me how you can put this guys in a rocket that is smaller then they
did chopper get his personality from these guys??
In all reality the Confederacy would have completely wiped the floor with the Republic
why didnt obiwan use the force to get the buzz droids off his ship
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Lay one out in the comments for R4-P17.
The Buzz droid was originally a Repair Droid. With the schematics Sidious uploaded into them, a bit of reprogramming back to original purpose will grant you free labor for starfighter production.
Really wonder why they didn’t use these more. Just a few Buzz Missiles fired at a capital ship would be able to slowly chew into it, shutting off life support, causing shortages, and gradually moving further and further towards the core of the ship. The capital ship would literally have to send out personnel armed with weapons and vacume suits to get rid of them all…and good luck doing that in the middle of a battle!
They're effective against fighters, but capital ships have damage control teams that could pretty effectively neutralize them.
@@stevenschnepp576False. Buzz droids would have been a nuts thing to deal with.
@@stevenschnepp576When 3 buzz droids could be all that's needed to tear a humanoid caught half a second off guard apart, i doubt damage control teams, which rarely have more than a dozen members each, could take on swarms that'd usually come in the hundreds each for attacking something as huge as capital ships. Even if such damage control teams are able to contain 90% of the buzz droids sent their way, the remaining 10% that fall through the cracks are more than enough to continue wrecking whatever complicated delicate systems are on their way, before the damage control teams could clean them all out in time.
My best guess would be the sheer scale of the target. It takes multiple to effect the quite frankly minuscule ETA-2 Actis fighters, just how long and how many would it take for them to do anything meaningful to a Acclamator or Venator? There’s also the question of how long they could operate for because when you look at the body these things there is no such thing as wasted space and with so many different limbs, sensors, and in some cases dual blasters, they’d need to use a considerable amount of energy on something that likely doesn’t have a charging station for them.
After that it becomes an issue of what could they reasonably damage, could they breach the hull like on fighters or would they need another way into the ship? Once they do get inside what stops the crew from just sealing that room and venting it back out to space? In the Clone Wars episode with D-squad and the stolen Venator an open airlock sucks out a whole swarm of Buzz droids.
@@quox3987 A ship, even one built & meant to operate in space, ain't gonna be all covered in armor plating without an inch to exploit, moreso when shielding being so damn common. There's bound to be at least gaps that most organics can't reach to be exploited by something so small. Operation time needn't be taken into account, as SW battery tech is far more advanced than our own in the real world, which one can easily tell seeing even the likes of b1s being able to run for days doing combat without needing recharging. Buzz droids, despite their size & compactness, i'd say can run for at least a full day without running outta power.
Finally, when the buzz droids manage to worm their way into said big ships, there'd be loads of spaces, UNARMORED spaces, for them to do whatever they please, that organics can't easily get access to. Imagine the likes of roaches getting under couches & behind closets. A great deal more of such spaces in ships than regular houses & apartment units. Measures like sealing off rooms would be limited at best, & totally useless at worst, given how easily such small droids can just tunnel their way out in those out-of-reach spaces, where delicate parts of critical systems can definitely be found, which they can make a mess of.
Colicoid species is underrated for the droid creations they produce with skill and precision for specified purpose
Put yourself in the cockpit of a Star Fighter in some of the most intense space battle of the war, and there hundreds of thousands of dogfights all across the battlefield, and then unfortunately pass into a yellow cloud and then suddenly your entire Star Fighter is cover by dozens of buzz droids that are eagerly ripping apart your Star Fighter and there usually nothing you can do unless if you are waiting to die a vicious death in your Star Fighter. That is why these little mechanical monsters are feared by veterans pilots and veterans of those space battles.
As a kid doing Star Wars fan fiction in the 1990’s I had come up with something similar, it was a fighter-sized droid in the shape of a virus that would cut a hole in the hull of a Capital ship and inject the ship with a bunch of small spider-like droids that were essentially walking bombs. The walking bomb droids would find critical system and detonate. Another twist of that (which would complete the virus analogy a lot better) would be small droids that could hijack control of the ship.
Yeah that does sound like a weird version of a buzz droid but also very intriguing because it can produce more copies of themselves meaning it takes one of those droids to complete trash an entire squad of starfighters compared to an entire swarm of buzz droids
If I have my lore correct. Another tactic would be to let out Buzz droid mines along a major hyperspace route. Ships would trigger the mines and get dismantled and the droids would just drift in the hyperspace lane until they could be rounded up. Shutting down major travel and commerce lanes for months or even years on end.
Video Idea: The Most Annoying Character in Star Wars
Anything that reminds me of the Spy Kids cringefests by the otherwise talented Robert Rodriguez.
Barring that, some would say Rosh from the Jedi Academy video game, although I actually pity him for being too lucky (unlucky?) to not have as much excitement and adventure as his friend (and player character) Jaden Korr.
So a video on Jar-Jar?
@@jamesleduke873 Too overrated a topic and too overhated a character.
LOL R2's evil cousin. Both psychotic little brats, but the Buzz Droid was given a desire and love for hurting things; especially biologicals. I can picture them hanging out after TCW laughing about the various battles and straight up wars they were in. "Hey... You were with the Jedi with a scar on his face at Coruscan. Right?"
"Wait... Yeah! I do remember you!"
"That was a really good shot, by the way. Nearly killed me."
"Thanks. You were pretty good too. Looks like a fun job; dismantling."
"You should try it sometime. Find a nice junkyard and dig in."
"Being built for it and never reprogrammed against it, I really enjoy repair. But it can get old sometimes." Takes another draw from the power pack. "Hey Bartender! I'll take another power pack when you get to it! Make it spicy!"
"One Unsteady Betty, coming up!"
Now, imagined the Rebels Alliance deployed the buzz droids in the space battles. Just think of how much damages they can do to the TIE-Fighters and the Star Desrtroyers if deployed in significant number!
Buzz droids go against the mantra of the Rebels.
They're something of a terror weapon. Something the Rebellion avoids using.
I could certainly see Saul's Partisans using them though.
Not really... The only control surfaces on a tie fighter are on the thrusters, and most tie fighters didn't have life support systems to sabotage.
@@cheesaliciousablebut they could make a huge mess of that TIE fighter.
Crazy idea, remember that time C-3PO had his head attached to a B1 body (upgrade IMHO)? What would happen if you put a buzz droid "head" on a B1 body?
Anyway keep up the good work 👏🏻
They really should have just been called "Gremlin Droids"
One of the dumbest designs in all of Star Wars. Imagine if instead of all that nonsense they simply armed them with an explosive and turned them into smart suicide drones. The republican casualties would have been enormous and it would have absolutely included Anakin. Seriously the nonsense of getting drone to try and dismantle a ship instead of just blowing it up. I get that Lucas always planned Star Wars to be primarily for children but come on
Apparently it's because they used to be repair doids, and were more or less just reprogrammed.
9:19 that's brutal.. A video about the brutality of the Star Wars underground would be interesting..
Wait a minute, I just thought of something, if the Buzz Ddroids could magnetize themselves, why didn't any of them do that to avoid getting sucked out the airlock when M5-BZ opened the airlock on the Venator during the D-Sqaud arc?
Must be cheap variants.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Probably. Or since this was their first battle, maybe all the bugs and upgrades that we see later hadn't been worked out yet.
I need to say that I find buzz droids a little useless
You don't need them when your normal starfighters alone are better then the starfighter from the enemies
It’s about the moral damage I assume. Like death by buzz droids is probably one of the worst ways to go.
Imagine what would happen if these things were deployed in our world on the battlefield. Tanks would be rendered useless, aircraft’s would fall from the sky and entire enemy encampments would be sent into utter chaos. Given how potentially dangerous these things could be perhaps it’s best that we don’t have something like these in our world, undoubtedly they might have to be banned for use in war or at least heavily restricted to military targets only.
For every weapon that exists, there are ways to counter them.
One method is active protective systems for tanks that can defeat the missile carrying it before it hits. Or even a new kind of ERA that can repel such attacks if they manage to get on the tank. Having metal harder than the droid's cutting tools wouldn't hurt either.
For aircraft a good method is advancing your standard anti-missile techniques like chaff, flares, and if possible stealth that can defeat the missile delivery system. Not to mention anti-missile missiles. Along with the possibility of laser point defense.
Though if all else fails, just have some of your own to protect equipment from other buzz droids.
“They were even know to eat each other in times of stress”
*looks awkwardly at old news article about that crashed plane in the mountains*
To be real for moment, humanity ain’t far off on that note either. Prob even argument, most sentient species would resort to it when desperate enough.
The Buzz Droid Star Wars answer to the Gremlin.
Who made the buzz droids? clearly space hitler end of video now we can all watch Blurred Lines featuring TI and Pharrell
You also fight them in the revenge of the sith video game.
The only thing that bugs me about the buzz droids is they’re deployed by a tracking missile. Like, if you’re going to going to hit em with a missile anyways just make it explode
Imagine if the rebel alliance used these against tie fighters.
We have better drones in 2024..😂
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The CIS should have not bothered with droid fighters and went right just clouds and clouds of buzz droids. My guess is that they were very expensive.
Unironicley buzz droids are probably one of the most terrifying this in star wars.
I would take like 100 reprogram them to there original use and switch some tools and have deployable pit crews especially with that many leftover add like r2 style personality or something like if the falcon had that it’s reputation of junky might not have been a thing
My favorite clone wars droid simply because I love how they look.
Yeah I think I’ll stick with the gremlin
What hasn't been imitated from nature and then turned into something useful . You are the stewards of all that's been earned. Think about it, food for thought.
Is a "What-if" on if Anakin stayed on Mortis rather than return to the war doable?
the buzz droid reminds me of C&C red alert 2 Terror Drone .
Fire vid as usual
Cis is a slur...
Buzz buzz 😩
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Reactivated or deactivated? It doesn't make sense for them to be "reactivated" at the end of the CW, you would think it would be after they were reactivated
I would LOVE to see what these little, as you aptly put it, "mechanical gremlins" could do to a Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper!
Nice episode, good work.
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