Name: Roche Hive IX-6 heavy combat droid
Manufacturer: Roche Hive Mechanical Apparatus Design and Construction Activity for Those Who Need the Hive's Machines
Class: Battle droid
Degree: Class four droid
Cost: 13,500 credits
Sensor color: Red

Dexterity: 2D
        Blaster 5D, Dodge 4D, Brawling Parry: 5D
Knowledge: 1D
        Intimidation: 3D
Perception: 2D
        Search 4D
Strength: 3D
        Brawling: 5D
Mechanical: 1D
        Security 3D
Technical: 1D
        
Equipped with:
        Humanoid Body (two arms, two legs, head)
        Standard auditory sensors (human range)
        Armored Chassis (+1D to resist damage)
        Built-in comm package
        2 Arm-mounted Blaster Rifles (5D damage)

Move: 9

Description: The IX-6 heavy combat droid was a heavy battle droid manufactured by Roche, a Verpine corporation, based in the Roche asteroids.

History
Having previously endured subjugation by the Galactic Empire, Verpine engineers designed the IX-6 to deter incursion into the Roche asteroid belt. When the resurrected Galactic Empire came to rise years later, Verpine increased the production of the droids and spread them throughout their hives, as well as continued to sell them to other interested parties.

After Darth Krayt's takeover of the Empire, Roche was ordered to immediately cease the production of the IX-6 and destroy all existing models. Not willing to succumb to the Empire, Roche spread the factories throughout the asteroid belt, hiding them deep in asteroids which appeared abandoned from the surface. When the Empire learned of the defiance, a fleet of Star Destroyers blasted several heavily populated Verpine asteroids to dust. Even after the punishment, Roche continued to produce new IX-6 units and smuggled them to anyone who could afford them.

In combat, the IX-6 model sometimes served under LON-29 battle droid commanders. Despite his Empire