"Well, come with me and I shall be pleased to discuss it," says Cannes, leading you out of the room back to the cacophony outside.
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"Thankyou, Sea-Four," he says. The droid nods amiably and waddles away.
"The trick with Battle droids," says Cannes, "is one of scale. No-one is going to pretend that a Baktoid automata is the last word in combat efficency, even with future research taken out of the eqaution. That is obvious for anyone to see- for example, you only have to see how much more dangerous a Droideka is than a Battle Droid to see that point illustrated. Two Droidekas could annihilate entire battalions of them; in fact, the battle droid longarm is not actually powerful enough to penetrate Droideka shields, which is part of the droideka basic design of course; they are more than a match for any number of foot soldiers.
"But cost is certainly the limiter. Droidekas cost a fortune. When Baktoid designed the automata, the object was not to create the finest fighting machine in existence, but to create something that was capable of foighting as well as a human or other sentient being, but could be produced and bought in vast numbers- millions, billions or more. The essence of the automats, then, is that they are exceptionally simple. Economy is present in all areas, from the slight frame, to their basic visual systems, to their general combat programming, to their VERY small use of projected power."
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"And so, the project succeeded. Battle Droids are capable of fighting as well as any general militia, added to which you don't need to feed or pay them and the only limiter on how many you can deploy is how many you can afford. The project has been exceptionally lucrative for us."
You break out into the exterior desert sunshine.
"There are rather a lot of you, aren't there?" he asks. "The Galaxy must be low on crime to warrant this many Jedi here just to ask questions."
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