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R5-S9 was an R5 unit manufactured by Industrial Automaton that served the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. It was working in the power control room of the Senate Office Building on the planet Coruscant when the bounty hunter Cad Bane and a posse of bounty hunters entered looking to cut the power to the building before taking a group of senators hostage. Bane and his colleagues then destroyed R5-S9.

History[]

R5-S9 was the designation of an R5 unit[4] that served the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. At some point, the droid was with R4-M1 inside the Jedi Temple when R2-D2 rushed in to play a message.[5] Later, it was present in the Senate Office Building when the bounty hunter Cad Bane led a posse of other bounty hunters into the building in order to take a number of senators hostage and force Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine to release the criminal Ziro Desilijic Tiure from the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center.[2]

While trying to cut off power to the building, Bane and his posse found R5-S9 and several other Republic droids working in the power control room and gunned them down, with one of Bane's IG-86 sentinel droids destroying R5-S9. Ultimately Bane and his mens' gambit was successful and Ziro was released.[2]

Description[]

As an R5 unit of the R-series[4] of astromech droids,[2] R5-S9 was manufactured by Industrial Automaton and stood ninety-seven centimeters tall.[3] The droid had black sensors and blue and white paneling.[2]

Behind the scenes[]

R5-S9 first appeared in "Hostage Crisis," the twenty-second episode of the first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which was released in 2009.[2] In the new Star Wars canon, it was first identified in the phone app Star Wars: Card Trader on a card released in 2017.[4] The name originally appeared in the 2011 Star Wars Legends magazine Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic 6.23.[6]

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  1. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of "ARC Troopers" to 21 BBY and the events of "Nightsisters" to 20 BBY. As the episode "Hostage Crisis" takes place between the two episodes according to StarWars Star Wars: The Clone Wars Chronological Episode Order on StarWars.com (backup link), R5-S9's death must take place between those two years.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Hostage Crisis"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded states that all R5 units are manufactured by Industrial Automaton and stand ninety-seven centimeters tall. As R5-S9 is shown to be an R5 unit in TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Hostage Crisis", it must share these characteristics.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 ToppsDigitalLogo Star Wars: Card Trader (Card: R5-S9 - Astromech Series)
  5. TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "R2 Come Home"
  6. Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic 6.23
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