Located in the Outer Rim, Hypori is a temporary world rich with minerals but has no intelligent life. After the Battle of Naboo, the republic passed strict laws that severely hampered the manufacture and distribution of battle droid armies. In secret, the leaders of the Baktoid Armor Workshop sponsored a colonial effort transporting an entire Geonisians hive to droid armies. Though the tough bedrock and soil provided difficult to assimilate into a true and proper hive-mound, the Geonosian workers nonetheless turned the planet into a massive foundry, churning put battle droids in preparation for the Clone Wars to come.
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