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Manta Droid Subfighter

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this droid warship was developed for use on oceanic planets by the Techno Union, to augment the forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the height of the Clone Wars. The manta was originally created by the Xi Char Cathedral Factories, at the request of the Trade Federation. They were developed after the Federation took heavy losses on Naboo and other aquatic worlds. Later, these ships were supplied to the Quarren Isolation League during their struggle to take control of the planet Calamari from the Mon Calamari Knights. Because the Xi Char were ordered to develop the manta droid subfigther in isolation from the rest of the Hoar Chall religious order, the manta suffered from a number of design inadequacies. They were not adaptable to different shapes like droid starfighters, although they resembled those ships in appearance. The forward mounted missile launchers were located on the nose of the craft, which was shaped like a wide diving plane, while the fuselage hung behind the main wing.