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Produced by the Commerce Guild, Mining Guild, Retail Caucus and the Techno Union, the Dredging Droid was originally build to excavate material from water and wet environment, like swamps, rivers and ocean, up to whole swamp and ocean worlds. This also included assistance in underwater building, like for the Mon Calamari on Dac, as well as expanding, or stabilizing existing water features, like reshaping land and river shapes after drainage, flooding, for navigation and commercial use by water going ships, constructing dams or dikes, overall control steams and shorelines. This included navigation, for commercial use and military transportation as well, mostly on worlds of the Outer Rim, were a limited population, landing possibilities, or modernization and industrialization prevented the use of starships for transportation use. Other uses included the underwater extraction of mineral and ore deposits, as well as marine life for commercial means. They came in various sizes and models, from the DD-1 to the DD-32 with some using specialized hoverplatforms instead of legs to remain above water if it was stable and low enough, while others were capable to go into deep sea and underwater locations to gather, mine or recover materials of value including deep underwater operations. The arm applications they used for this varied and either sued suction, pumping or mechanical means. Normally used for civil uses only, this ended with the Clone Wars, when Dredging Droids were used to build dams, bridges and other means to aid the Droid Army in their advances and retreating, by either eliminating obstacles in their way, or creating ones for the Republic and later Imperial Army. Doing so could often have impacts on the surrounding environment by disturbing marine sediments as well as short- and long-term water pollution by destroying important seabed ecosystems and even release some gases and other toxins captured in the sediment, somethings the Separatists would sometimes use for increased biological and chemical warfare if they had no other means of doing so against their Republic and later Imperial enemies on certain worlds.

While not often encountered Dredging Droids were a vital asset for all Separatist Commanders and Droid Armies using them and more then one time managed to give them an upper hand on many of the battlefields and world battles during the fights and sieges of the Rim, including the Inner Rim and all the way towards the Outer Rim. The Galactic Republic Clone Troopers soon realized the support these droids gave to the Separatist Alliance, the Confederacy of Independent Systems, these civil droids soon became a major target for the forces of the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire as well. Since they were often very big and thereby easy targets it wasn’t hard for enemy artillery and air forces to find and destroy them, which was why not many of them would survive the Clone Wars. Those that did however would later do vital work in rebuilding and reconstructing war-torn worlds throughout the Rim, alongside many other labor droids and reprogrammed battle droids to get rid of the destruction and devastation that the Clone Wars had brought with them. This way they could build their worlds back up as best as possible after the destruction and losses in intelligent species life's that had often occurred throughout the Clone Wars. With local infrastructure and industries often severely hit and local defenses and all kind of ships often either destroyed, or captured by the enemy, many would use Dredging Droids to go back for a more planetary-bound way of transportation, at least for some time and by building canals, damns and straightening, or widening rivers the Dredging Droids did a great deal to expand this early reconstruction infrastructure as best as possible without having the cost further explode into millions of credits, like they would have with building or rebuild roads and bridges instead, which were often reserved for the second reconstruction phase on many worlds. Reconstruction took time and slowly many worlds would at least partly recover in some way, shape or form and when they did Dredging Droids often had played a great role in allowing this recoveries to happen as fast as they did in the end without delaying them or costing to much additional Credits many of the worn-torn worlds as independent systems not had without outright selling themselves to the InterGalactic Banking Clan trough credit debt.

Description
Produced by the Commerce Guild, Mining Guild, Retail Caucus and the Techno Union, the Dredging Droid was originally build to excavate material from water and wet environment, like swamps, rivers and ocean, up to whole swamp and ocean worlds. This also included assistance in underwater building, like for the Mon Calamari on Dac, as well as expanding, or stabilizing existing water features, like reshaping land and river shapes after drainage, flooding, for navigation and commercial use by water going ships, constructing dams or dikes, overall control steams and shorelines. This included navigation, for commercial use and military transportation as well, mostly on worlds of the Outer Rim, were a limited population, landing possibilities, or modernization and industrialization prevented the use of starships for transportation use. Other uses included the underwater extraction of mineral and ore deposits, as well as marine life for commercial means. They came in various sizes and models, from the DD-1 to the DD-32 with some using specialized hoverplatforms instead of legs to remain above water if it was stable and low enough, while others were capable to go into deep sea and underwater locations to gather, mine or recover materials of value including deep underwater operations. The arm applications they used for this varied and either sued suction, pumping or mechanical means. Normally used for civil uses only, this ended with the Clone Wars, when Dredging Droids were used to build dams, bridges and other means to aid the Droid Army in their advances and retreating, by either eliminating obstacles in their way, or creating ones for the Republic and later Imperial Army. Doing so could often have impacts on the surrounding environment by disturbing marine sediments as well as short- and long-term water pollution by destroying important seabed ecosystems and even release some gases and other toxins captured in the sediment, somethings the Separatists would sometimes use for increased biological and chemical warfare if they had no other means of doing so against their Republic and later Imperial enemies on certain worlds.

While not often encountered Dredging Droids were a vital asset for all Separatist Commanders and Droid Armies using them and more then one time managed to give them an upper hand on many of the battlefields and world battles during the fights and sieges of the Rim, including the Inner Rim and all the way towards the Outer Rim. The Galactic Republic Clone Troopers soon realized the support these droids gave to the Separatist Alliance, the Confederacy of Independent Systems, these civil droids soon became a major target for the forces of the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire as well. Since they were often very big and thereby easy targets it wasn’t hard for enemy artillery and air forces to find and destroy them, which was why not many of them would survive the Clone Wars. Those that did however would later do vital work in rebuilding and reconstructing war-torn worlds throughout the Rim, alongside many other labor droids and reprogrammed battle droids to get rid of the destruction and devastation that the Clone Wars had brought with them. This way they could build their worlds back up as best as possible after the destruction and losses in intelligent species life's that had often occurred throughout the Clone Wars. With local infrastructure and industries often severely hit and local defenses and all kind of ships often either destroyed, or captured by the enemy, many would use Dredging Droids to go back for a more planetary-bound way of transportation, at least for some time and by building canals, damns and straightening, or widening rivers the Dredging Droids did a great deal to expand this early reconstruction infrastructure as best as possible without having the cost further explode into millions of credits, like they would have with building or rebuild roads and bridges instead, which were often reserved for the second reconstruction phase on many worlds. Reconstruction took time and slowly many worlds would at least partly recover in some way, shape or form and when they did Dredging Droids often had played a great role in allowing this recoveries to happen as fast as they did in the end without delaying them or costing to much additional Credits many of the worn-torn worlds as independent systems not had without outright selling themselves to the InterGalactic Banking Clan trough credit debt.