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G-2RD series guard droid

G-2RD series guard droid

Production information
Date created	< 0 BBY
Manufacturer	Arakyd Industries
Model	G-2RD series guard droid
Class	Guard droid
Technical specifications
Height	0.8 meters^[1]
Armament	3 arms^[2] Blaster pistol Manipulating claw Stun baton Medium armor
Equipment	Broad-band antenna receiver^[3] Comlink^[4] Repulsorlift Sensors Improved sensors Infrared vision Low-light vision Telescopic vision 360-degree vision Vocabulator
Chronological and political information
Era(s)	Rise of the Empire era Rebellion era New Jedi Order era
Affiliation	Galactic Empire New Republic

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"You get a G-2RD droid going, and you'll have to take its head off to stop it."

―Han Solo^[src]

The G-2RD Series Guard Droid was a small, fourth-degree defense droid^[5] built by Arakyd Industries. The spherical, flat, black security droid had three evenly-spaced arms, sensor antennae studding its bottom, and multiple photoreceptors surrounding its surface. The G-2RD could manipulate locks and speak, read, and write Basic.^[6]

1 Characteristics
2 History
3 Appearances
4 Sources
5 Notes and references
6 External links

CharacteristicsEdit

G-2RD droids were designed by Arakyd to be tenacious and uncompromising, providing security while preventing rioting. While Arakyd thought this was a plus, many other droids and individuals found them to be annoying and hard to work with. Initially, Arakyd sold the G-2RD series to prison facilities throughout the galaxy. Sometime after Palpatine declared himself Emperor in 19 BBY, the Galactic Empire purchased large numbers of the security droids.^[6]

By the end of production, Arakyd had produced millions of the droids, who worked in places from the armies of petty criminals to New Republic detention blocks.^[6]

HistoryEdit

While the G-2RD guard droids were specifically designed to be immune to restraining bolts, Han Solo and Chewbacca, were able to jury-rig a bolt to disable one. In turn, the droid's memory was erased.^[7] In addition, the droid was equipped with a stun baton, an ion blaster, and a stun grenade launcher. The droid's weaponry was designed to stop rioters and/or escapees without killing them, and its thick armor prevented simple deactivation. It had a loud alarm system, which could call help from distant areas.