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Maliwan, well known for for their arms manufacture, maintains a strong military force under the leadership of the Katagawa family. With Katagawa Jr. forcibly taking control of the corporation, the Maliwan troopers soon found themselves in a loose alliance with the Children of the Vault and thrown into protracted engagements on Promethea and Nekrotafeyo.
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History
Involvement
Seeking the power of Promethea's Vault for himself, Katagawa Jr. contacted Tyreen Calypso to negotiate an alliance with the Children of the Vault. As part of the alliance, Katagawa had Tyreen use her energy-draining Siren powers to kill off his siblings so that none of them would inherit Maliwan before him.
With the COV providing armed personnel and Maliwan supporting them with their fleet, weapons, and technology, Katagawa launched his attack on Promethea to force Atlas's new CEO, Rhys Strongfork, into unconditional surrender of his company and the Vault to Maliwan. A second unit of Maliwan soldiers was dispatched to the planet Athenas, where the Order of the Impending Storm guarded a piece of the Vault Key needed to unlock the Vault, and a third unit supported by COV Bandits went to capture Skywell-27 and its powerful superlaser so as to push Rhys into further submission. The Crimson Raiders, assisted by former Vault Hunters Maya and Zer0, were able to push back the Maliwan assault and help Rhys regain control over the planet.
Maliwan soldiers were later encountered on the planet Nekrotafeyo, presumably after Tyreen shared its location to them. They cooperated alongside the COV in a final effort to prevent the Crimson Raiders from reaching the Great Vault.
Maliwan Units (Borderlands 3)

Infantry
- Appeared in Borderlands 3:
- Assault Trooper
- Badass Contaminator Heavy
- Badass NOG
- Badass Powerhouse Heavy
- Badass Pyrotech Heavy
- Badass Trooper
- Breach Trooper
- Contaminator Heavy
- Flash Trooper
- Heavy Gunner
- Icebreaker Heavy
- Jet Trooper
- Med Trooper
- Ninja NOG
- NOG
- NOGromancer
- Powerhouse Heavy
- Pyrotech Heavy
- Riot Trooper
- Appeared in Designer's Cut Arms Race:
- Badass Furnace Heavy
- Blinkrunner
- Corporate Muscle
- Furnace Heavy
- Fusion Sapper
- Hulking Blaster
- Scrapper Heavy
- Shock Jack
- Waste Jack
Bloody Harvest Haunted Infantry
- Dissection Trooper
- Gatekeeper Heavy
- Gatekeeper Trooper
- Gravedigger Trooper
- Gravewalker Trooper
- Mortician Trooper
- Pathologist Heavy
- Pyre Heavy
Mechs
- Appeared in Borderlands 3:
- Appeared in Designer's Cut Arms Race:
Robots
- AMBER LAMPS
- Bouncer Bot
- Billyclub Bot
- Bit Bot
- Casino Bot
- Death Sphere
- Defender
- Deputy Bot
- EMS Bot
- Fire Bot
- Hacked Bot
- Harbinger
- Maliwan Bot
- Medic Bot
- Offender
- Oversphere
- Recycler Bot
- Service Bot
- Sheriff Bot
- Stinger
Notable Units
- Atomic
- Captain Traunt
- Coffee Runner
- General Traunt
- Gigamind
- Katagawa Ball
- Katagawa Jr.
- Private Beans
- Sylestro
- Wotan the Invincible