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Message: <blockquote data-quote="radferth" data-source="post: 2291511" data-attributes="member: 5791"><p>I am not a SWd20 player, but I love a discussion of HTHDTH moments in the movies.  As network administrator of a MS Windows shop, it occurs to me that the easiest way (and surely non-cannonical) to explain the battle droid behavior is that the Droid Crontrol Ship is important not because it contains some sort of droid control central (although it probably does), but is important because it contains the Droid Licensing Server.  The Neimodians built these droids and cheap mercenaries, not as their own army (IIRC).  One way to make them cheap is to rent them rather than sell them.  If they planned to rent the droids out on a per-battle basis, then they would keep a Droid Licensing Server on the Droid Control Ship.  After one battle, the droids would shut down unless the buyer had purchased a licsense for the next battle as well.  Thus distroying the control ship would cease the licensing signal, causing the army to shut down, believing that they were now out of licensure.  Of course, this feature was not installed on battle droids produced later, as the Nemoidians would have built these for their own cause.</p></blockquote><p></p>