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The Essential Guide to Droids

The Essential Guide to Droids

Attribution
Author(s)	Daniel Wallace
Editor(s)	Sue Rostoni (Lucasfilm) and Steve Saffel (Del Rey)
Illustrator(s)	Bill Hughes, Troy Vigil
Publication information
Publisher	Del Rey
Publish date	February 16, 1999
Type	Paperback
ISBN	0345420675

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The fifth book in Del Rey's Essential Guide series, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Droids features an in-depth look at one hundred astromech, Protocol, and other intelligent automatons from the original trilogy and Expanded Universe, each with its own two-page spread including detailed schematics. Links from this article will go to articles detailing the droid model, rather than a particular unit. In 2006, an updated version of the book known as the The New Essential Guide to Droids was released, to accommodate the various droids from the prequel trilogy.

Publisher's summaryEdit

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER...DROID!

They can be anything from nursemaids to surgeons, diplomats to assassins. They walk, roll and fly— and communicate in languages ranging from whistles and beeps to Standard Basic to the most obscure alien dialect. MixRMastRs make drinks in spaceport cantinas, Basilisks make war wherever they're deployed, and IT-O Interrogators make life night-marish for prisoners of the Empire.

Droids are an integral and indispensable part of the Star Wars universe. And this comprehensive guide surveys all myriad models and classes—from the lowliest drones to the most sophisticated humanoid automatons.

Discover the evolution of the R-series droids, whose members include lumbering technicians and skilled X-wing navigators such as R2-D2

Learn the curious history of the MSE-6 "mouse" droids employed exclusively in the bases and on Imperial starships of the Empire

Explore the workings of the malevolent Shadow Droids: machines with living, organic brains

Uncover how the Rebel's fearsome FIDO (Foreign Intruder Defense Organism) carries out is duties

Whatever its design and wherever it may be found in the ever-expanding Star Wars universe, if the subject is droid, its definitive data on development, history, and technology is included in this essential technical guide.

Many of the droids in the old book were removed or replaced in the new installment of the book, mostly being replaced by Clone Wars or New Jedi Order units .

ContentsEdit

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Guide to Major Manufacturers

AstromechEdit

P2 and R1
R2
R3 and R4
R5
R6 and R7

ProtocolEdit

MedicalEdit

Household serviceEdit

Commercial serviceEdit

MunicipalEdit

BusinessEdit

Heavy industrialEdit

AgriculturalEdit

Courier/transportEdit

LaborEdit

MaintenanceEdit

RepairEdit

Starship-basedEdit

MilitaryEdit

AssassinsEdit

Training/gladiatorialEdit

SecurityEdit

InterrogationEdit

EspionageEdit

Specialized useEdit

One of a kindEdit

Essential Guides

First generation
Characters · Vehicles and Vessels · Weapons and Technology · Planets and Moons · Droids · Chronology · Alien Species · Episode I (canceled)
Second generation
New Characters · New Vehicles and Vessels · New Weapons and Technology · New Chronology · New Droids · New Alien Species
Third generation
The Force · Atlas · Warfare · Reader's Companion · Untitled updated Essential Guide to Characters

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