Unlike that of the Everetti EV droids, Taiping Droids were developed slightly later, on little more than a whim in the R&D department, and usually for semimilitary purposes. The main concern of the Taiping is cost (for example twenty men with 4 rocket launchers will cost less and do the same amount of damage than a battle tank), and so the majority of the Taiping Droids are, while weaker spec-wise, can be deployed in bulk and possess the massive amount of firepower that can overwhelm other droids through a mix of numbers and swarm tactics. So far, only two droids have been developed, the Ganymede Xiaopei-1 and the Ganymede Xiaopei-2. While the air-space Yi-soon-jee-classed Combat Satellites count as an air force droid, it is not counted due to its role only in air and space combat.