A single BX commando at the height of the clone wars were renowned for their effectiveness in combat. Aside from the IG-100 magna guards, the BX models were used to guard VIPs, assassinate enemy officials and sabotage key targets to name a few. It was this skillset that had allowed N4-X4 to infiltrate Fortress Vader under the nose of Darth Tempest and her so-called Sith, download its archives and exfiltrate leaving everyone none-the-wiser.
The contents of the archives were coded individually and could take literally lifetimes for the BX commando droid to decipher on their own. However they had some luck and chose a familiar subject to decrypt. The Klegger Corp Mining Facility and its secrets opened to reveal detailed files on the mining operations there. But more than that. The data it contained clearly indiciated there were droid manufacturing capabilities hidden beneath the surface. Furthermore there were Confederacy of Independent Systems markings and terms used in frequency.
After discovering this information the droid made a tactical choice and reached out to the occupiers of the molten planet. Naxa would be hard pressed to keep the facility a secret in the long run since it was practically next door to the dark side nexus. But rather than see it as an obstacle, the hunter calculated an opportunity. If production could be restored then a portion of machines produced could be put to use for the Sith while the rest were sent on key missions for N4-X4's own ends.
N4-X4 was a capable BX commando droid with a long track record but there was only so much the war machine could do alone. The reasons that they wanted to acquire the alleged "mining facility" were the same reasons it was dangerous. The structure may have continued operations in the years after the Clone Wars but it was largely forgotten and not mentioned anywhere publicly. N4-X4 had a map of the facility's interior but that did not mean it had remained the same over the decades. It also meant there were likely scores of battle droids, maybe even hundreds of all makes and models capable of defending the building. Caution was warranted.
The droid drew closer to the facility behind the controls of their patrol craft, the Revenant Aiwha . Their photoreceptors turned to look at their dashboard which indicated several approaching threats. It was likely N4-X4 had triggered a proximity protocol of some sort since two vulture droids, previously walking on their "legs", lifted off a pair of landing pads and darted out from an obsidian canyon. They quickly began to close the distance with the contractor's ship and began to attempt missile lock. The droid tried to swerve and avoid the lock attempt and use the lancer class patrol craft's modified maneuverability to its advantage. They would need to deal with these two hostiles and began to have the dorsal mounted triple-barrel light laser cannon turret begin to face its aft, anticipating the vulture droids would quickly be on their tail.
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