Phlac-Arphocc Automata was a company that manufactured and designed starfighters. Alongside models of droid starfighters, the company worked cooperatively with another—the corporation Colla Designs—to construct the droid tri-fighter. Phlac-Arphocc used exotic and superdense radioactive fuels in its fightercraft.
Phlac-Arphocc's prototype tri-fighter under construction
Established at some point during the Republic Era, Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries associated itself with the Colla Designs. When the Clone Wars began between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems, from 22 BBY to 19 BBY, the company firmed with the Confederacy to build and design starfighters for its armada. In the later stages of the conflict, Phlac-Arphocc was commissioned to create a new class of aerospace superiority starfighter, with design schemes supplied from the manufacturers of Colicoid Creation Nest.
The droid tri-fighter was then produced for fighting Republic ARC-170 and V-wing starfighters in close-range dogfighting and combating Jedi pilots, beginning with a prototype model and later being built in vast quantities. From their initial deployment, Phlac-Arphocc's droid tri-fighter became the most feared and hated of the Separatists' fielded models engaged by Republic forces, as well as one of the best starfighters deployed in the galaxy. Later, Phlac-Arphocc offered their stockpiles of superdense radioactive fuel to the companies Baktoid Fleet Ordnance and Haor Chall Engineering, when the HMP droid gunship was being created for the Separatist military.
Phlac-Arphocc Automate Industries was introduced in the current Star Wars canon in the fifty-third of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series, published around January 6, 2016. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the company Phlac-Arphocc Automata Industries was originally introduced in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-Sections, a 2005 reference book authored by Curtis Saxton.
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