The Geonosians during the Clone Wars made use of spherical masticators for the construction of the various Lucrehulk-class battleships for the Trade Federation. The Galactic Empire utilized several fusion-powered masticators that were ultimately derived from the Geonosian model. Each one was equipped with various tractor beam generators and projectors in order to ensure the various asteroids were drawn into the maws of the masticators. Their maws included whirling durasteel teeth that chewed the asteroids into tiny bits, and then mixed the bits with alloy ores, which included quadanium which had been mined and imported from the planet Despayre. They also added water to the resulting highly-pressurized ravel to form a semiliquid mixture which was then fed into pipelines leading to the smelt