R4-K5 was an R4-series astromech droid that served as a navigator aboard starfighters of the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars.

When Anakin Skywalker fell to the dark side and became Darth Vader, he chose R4-K5 as a replacement for his former astromech, R2-D2. R4-K5 flew with Vader in his customized black Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor on early missions for the Galactic Empire.

Contents 1 Behind the scenes 2 Appearances 2.1 Non-canon appearances 3 Sources 3.1 In other languages

Behind the scenesEdit

R4-K5 is presented inconsistently in terms of color across sources; in The New Essential Chronology, the droid is seen as having a black dome, with a white body. This is incompatible with other sources, which depict the droid with an all-black body.

In the comic book arc Darth Vader and the Lost Command, Vader's now highly-modified interceptor features an astromech droid; however, it is depicted inconsistently between frames, and is not confirmed to be R4-K5.

AppearancesEdit

• Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader (First appearance)
• Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command 2 (Possible appearance)

Non-canon appearancesEdit

• Star Wars: Visions of the Blade

SourcesEdit

• The New Essential Chronology
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

•  Star Wars: The Saga Collection (Pack: R4-K5) (First identified as R4-K5)
•  R4-K5 in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
•  Darth Vader's Sith starfighter in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)