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The octuptarra combat tri-droids were advanced combat droids used by the Techno Union and the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. It was a smaller version of the titanic Octuptarra magna tri-droid. The stilt-legged spider-like automatons had large balloon-like heads atop their thin stalk bodies, armed with laser turrets. They were named after the eight-eyed, gasbag-headed vine walkers native to Skako. They were equipped with three laser turrets as standard, one on each side, below each photoreceptor. A certain variant was filled with a gaseous virus that would be released upon the droid's destruction, which was highly effective against organic enemy troops. The virus variants were nicknamed "virus droids". Their rotating multi-jointed assemblies allowed them to change facing almost instantly and they could fire from extended ranges, though they were vulnerable in close-quarters fighting. It was almost impossible to approach such droids, as all sides conceivably faced the front.
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