Star Wars Sets Up The Ultimate Jedi Killer Droids… 200 Years Before The Clone Wars

Star Wars has just revealed what are clearly the ancestors of the Trade Federation’s droidekas, the ultimate Jedi killer droids. It’s easy to see why Palpatine envisioned an army of droids as a rival for the Jedi; droids do not exist in the Force, which means they do not give off any intentions for a Jedi’s Force powers to sense. Although the Jedi won the Battle of Geonosis in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, when they first faced the Separatists, they did so only because of backup from the clone army. Some 200 Jedi died in the arena at Geonosis, leaving the entire order reeling.