R1-series astromech droid

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Yeah, we'll take that red one. No, not that one.

— Owen Lars, rejecting an R1 astromech, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope

The R1-series astromech droid was an older-model R-series astromech droid manufactured by Industrial Automaton.

Characteristics

The R1-series was a model of second class astromech droid that stood 1.94 meters tall and moved about on a single foot. Known specimens had black or light gray plating.

History

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Watto's R1 unit stayed behind the counter.

The R1-series astromech droid was an older model manufactured by Industrial Automaton as part of their R-series of astromech droids.

At the time of the Invasion of Naboo, the Toydarian junk dealer Watto owned an R1 astromech, which he kept behind the counter in his shop situated in Mos Espa, on the planet of Tatooine. Said unit worked as a shopkeeping drone, handling most of Watto's daily business operations.

Over thirty years later, an R1 unit designated R1-G4 fell into the hands of a group of diminutive Jawa scavengers traveling in a sandcrawler on Tatooine. Those Jawas attempted to sell the astromech to the moisture farmer Owen Lars and his nephew Luke Skywalker. Lars, however, rejected the tall droid in favor of an R2 unit and a 3PO protocol droid—both of which were in fact Rebel Alliance droids trying to carry out a secret mission at the behest of Princess Leia Organa. Around the same time, two other R1 units were known to be present in the Tatooinian spaceport of Mos Eisley.

Behind the scenes

R1-series astromech droids were first seen in the 1977 movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. One is seen among the droids the Jawas attempt to sell to Owen Lars. Another appears in the streets of Mos Eisley, during the scene in which a ronto gets startled by a passing swoop. A third, gray-painted R1 unit appears in the background when Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke are stopped and questioned by stormtroopers.

Appearances

• Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars Battlefront II
• Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 14: Burning Seas, Part II
• Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 15: Burning Seas, Part III
• Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith 16: Burning Seas, Part IV
• Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance)
• Star Wars: A New Hope junior novelization
• Star Wars: Heroes Path
• — Tales from Wild Space: Gonk — Star Wars Adventures 8
• Star Wars Battlefront
• "The Red One"—From a Certain Point of View
• Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – "Bounty Hunted"

Sources

• Ultimate Star Wars (As "R1-type shopkeeping drone")
• Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know (First identified as R1-series astromech droid)
• Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
• Star Wars: Force Collection
• Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded

Notes and references

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