It is a well known fact that EMPs (Electromagnetic Pulses) destroy everything electrical permanently within whatever radius (circle) that they are effective. And most if not all of the most developed countries like the U.S., Russia, China, Germany and likely France and England and Japan likely have EMP generators that can devastate anything electrical within one mile of their military grade EMP generator.
However, because of the threat of EMP from nuclear blasts in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and on into the present I also know the U.S. government has developed a type of electrical technology somewhat impervious to EMPs. However, I'm not sure that could or would be adapted to robotic armies. But, I do know it is used on most Army vehicles and Army technology and is used throughout the U.S. military so anything electrical they have won't get fried permanently in a large enough EMP from a nuclear blast nearby.
Another interesting fact is that 1 100 megaton Hydrogen bomb would permanently end every domestic electrical device in any country the size of the lower 48 states of the U.S. like Russia or China or all of Europe etc. If a 100 megaton bomb went off at 100 miles above the U.S. or another country this size all domestic electrical devices never would work again and any person within 12 feet of anything metal would die from something like a lightning bolt coming off it. So, though this would basically end civilization either permanently or for awhile (a few months or longer) and would kill anyone within 12 feet of anything made of metal, it would leave a country and all it's nature intact and undamaged and people (some would survive) the initial blast because they would have been far away enough from anything metal to have survived the initial blast because it was so high in the sky. However, then radiation likely would start to rain down all over the planet because it was deposited so high in the atmosphere and slowly over the years rain down on all mankind on the winds below wherever it landed in the air and on the ground. Also, it is unknown whether this would blow off part of the atmosphere of earth into space by doing this.
However, the main point of this article isn't nuclear warfare but about the fact that robot armies (unless somehow designed for EMPs) would all be stopped in their tracks by an EMP.
This sort of makes it known that Robot armies or soldiers would be effective against terrorists who didn't have EMP generators but not effective in larger actions against larger nations who did have EMP generators. And maybe this is a good thing. In other words something like the robot Army in one of the later Star Wars movies would have been brought down and stopped in their tracks by one EMP of sufficient size that went off once the robot Army was assembled and ready for action or before.
So, likely as robots become effective warriors they will tend to be used more in smaller actions, the types that Navy Seals are used for now. This would be done to minimize human casualties in these necessary actions worldwide by all developed countries that use them.
Battle Droids are fictional, robotic combat units used in the Star Wars Universe. ... battle droids served as frontline units in the Trade Federation Army and for the ...
Here is information on the Droid Army in one of the STar Wars movies. IF an EMP generator was present the droid army would have stopped in it's tracks never to move again.
What would ultimately become a Separatist army originally began as
several immense forces comprised almost exclusively of droids.[1] When merged, these formed a colossal army numbering in the quintillions.[2]
The Droid Army's first engagement at the Battle of Geonosis.
The land elements encompassed an enormous ground force which
comprised battle droids and ground attack vehicles. The ground forces
utilized many vehicles, such as the Heavy Missile Platform, the Hailfire droid tank, and the aquatic Manta droid subfighter. The Droid Army also employed a large space force, with a number of different types of droid starfighters, such as Vulture droid
starfighter. The various services were eventually reorganized into the
Separatist Droid Army by Count Dooku. Dooku would eventually deploy the
new Separatist army to overthrow the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars[3]—it was countered by the Jedi-led Grand Army of the Republic.[1]
This droid army drew upon of the battle droids of the Trade Federation[3], the Techno Union[4], the Commerce Guild[5], the InterGalactic Banking Clan[3], the Corporate Alliance[1], and other independent Separatist factions. These groups were subtly manipulated by Darth Sidious to expand their forces in response to seemingly random attacks of piracy from groups like the Nebula Front, which were also controlled by the Sith Lord. A number of assassinations then left these groups with leaders that Darth Sidious could control.[6]
Under his orders, these corporate giants began to purchase huge
orders of battle droids from the millions of factories controlled by
companies such as Baktoid Combat Automata, Colicoid Creation Nest, and Haor Chall Engineering over a decade before the start of the Clone Wars.[7] While the Invasion of Naboo provided an inkling of what was to come, it was not until Count Dooku deployed over a million B1 battle droids, one hundred thousand B2 super battle droids, and three thousand droidekas, plus many other types, at the Battle of Geonosis in 22 BBY that the Republic understood the scope of the threat, thus the Clone Wars had begun.[8]
While the Confederacy had an enormous number of soldiers, they
initially lacked proper military leadership. Command of the army was
initially given to Count Dooku's protégé Sev'rance Tann, a Chiss general, whose penchant for personal combat made her a counter to the Jedi. However, she was killed early on in the war by Echuu Shen-Jon.[7] She was soon replaced by the Kaleeshwarlord known as General Grievous. After proving to Count Dooku that his cybernetic enhancements were sufficient by defeating Asajj Ventress and Durge aboard the Trenchant space station, Grievous was formally awarded the title of Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies.[9]. Other commanders besides Ventress and Durge were Fenn Shysa, Spar, and Alto Stratus, who held lesser commands in various battles through the war.[7]
"Our
friends from the Trade Federation have pledged their support. And when
their battle droids are combined with yours, we shall have an army
greater than any in the galaxy. The Jedi will be overwhelmed. The
Republic will agree to any demands we make."
Backed by the millions of warships comprising the Confederate Navy, the Separatist challenged the rule of the Republic across the galaxy, beginning in 22 BBY, with the outbreak of the Clone Wars.[2] Though initially outnumbered as of the start of 21 BBY, the Separatist forces had grown in strength by the time of the Mission to Vjun in 20 BBY
to the point where Count Dooku questioned the need for continual
subterfuge between the governments and thought the Separatists could
simply win outright.[7]
The strategy of the Separatists could be thought of as
exceptionally defensive—their deployment at the start of the war was
designed to deflect any attack on their territory, while they continued
to build up the strength of their military. Though this frustrated some
Republic generals such as Mace Windu,
it also allowed the Republic time to muster its own forces to challenge
the Separatists—exactly as Darth Sidious intended. The first offensive
moves on the part of the Confederacy sought not immediate victory, but
instead to deny the Republic advantages and sow fear among the
civilians. They also sought to discredit or kill those on the
Confederate side who would end the war too swiftly.[7]
During this time, the Confederacy instead worked on projects such as chemical weapons like swamp gas, Trihexalophine1138, and a clone-targeting nanovirus.[10]
However, since no army won by retreating, the Confederacy was soon on
the move, seizing planets left and right in a string of victories. After
his existence was officially revealed to Republic forces at the Battle ofHypori[11],
General Grievous became known as the architect of the Separatists'
victories—on his orders, he brought about by his hatred for the Republic
and the modifications to his mind, the army was responsible for immense
amounts of carnage and destruction. The Clone Wars saw the devastation
of over a thousand worlds, including Atraken, Honoghr, and Humbarine. These horrors, perpetrated by droids and alien species, led to much of the prejudice that ruled the galaxy a generation later.[7]
Firefighter droid, B1 battle droid, Rocket battle droid, B2 super battle droid, B2-HA series super battle droid and a BX-series droid commando
The Clone Wars was essentially one giant game against the galaxy,
and, like every game, it had a closing move. Desperate to throw the Jedi
off his trail, Darth Sidious ordered General Grievous to carry out an attack on Coruscant.
Hundreds of millions of droids swarmed the planet, successfully
distracting the Jedi from their search. The attack was a ruse to draw Anakin Skywalker over to the dark side of the Force and eliminate Count Dooku. While initially successful, the battle ended in a rout when Generals Kenobi and Skywalker arrived with the Open Circle Fleet and defeated the Separatist while rescuing the Supreme Chancellor.[12]
The defeat did not end there, though, as days later Kenobi killed Grievous on Utapau and Darth Vader—formerly Anakin Skywalker—executed the Separatist Council on Mustafar. After completing his murder spree, Vader used the master control signal to transmit the order to deactivate all the Confederate droids across the galaxy in 19 BBY. On planets as distant as Murkhana,
the droids simply deactivated immediately when the order was relayed,
much to the confusion of the commanders, thus bringing an official end
to the Clone Wars.[12]
A droideka on Geonosis.
However, not all Separatist droids became parts of the Imperial Army. Some worlds, such as Enarc, still used battle droids against the new Empire and refused to surrender, thus resulting in the formation of the Separatist holdouts in 19 BBY. Also, the GeonosianGizor Dellso reactivated a portion of the army on Mustafar around 12 BBY, requiring the 501st Legion to storm the planet afterward. This resulted in a large faction of the Separatist holdouts to fall, thus resulting in a fragmentation of the Confederacy.[14]
Also, a few droid units would be recovered and re-programmed by various beings, such as the Vagaari, who would later use a droideka during their attempted destruction of the remains of Outbound Flight, years after the Battle of Endor.[15]
Other independent factions were able to seize some droids for their own
purposes on a number of occasions. Notable examples would be the B2
battle droids that later became the famous Orange Panthacs[13], the slaughter of an Imperial garrison on Jaguada's moon after a group of smugglers reactivated the leftover droids there[16], or the use of droideka Mark IIs by Tyber Zann in the Galactic Civil War.[17]
Some droids were not shut down. The droids of Geonosis did not
require a control ship to activate and deactivate, as discovered by Plo Koon and Ki-Adi-Mundi during the Battle of Geonosis. Therefore, the droid "leftovers" from Geonosis survived the deactivation. Wedge Antilles found this out the hard way after his X-wing crashed on Geonosis during the Galactic Civil War in 3 ABY.[18] Following the Rebel's retreat from the planet, the Imperial Stormtroopers utterly destroyed whatever was left of the droids, along with the last surviving Core Ship in existence, of the sole remaining stronghold of the Separatist holdouts, which ultimately brought an official end to the organization itself.
Following the dissolution of the Separatist holdouts, some droids
were not shut down, but managed to form their own societies. On Arzid, a squad of E4 baron droids overthrew the existing government to rule the settlement. Surviving A-series assassin droids returned to the wilds of Kashyyyk. There was also a case where several dozen Manta droid subfighters founded a colony on Mon Calamari, where they formed a symbiotic relationship with some native Quarren.[13] During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Jedi Klin-Fa Gi along with Uldir Lochett encountered a type of drone on Wayland that had somehow not been deactivated, it is possible it was a droid tri-fighter.[19] Some groups of sentient vulture droids were spotted in remote systems.
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