A-DSD advanced dwarf spider droid

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"Deltas, pay attention! You may only have one shot at this. You're looking at a dwarf spider droid, one of the Commerce Guild's nastiest anti-infantry units. Its durasteel plating is rated for starship hulls, and is nearly invulnerable to small arms fire. Only its optical cluster, the red orb on its abdomen, is unshielded and vulnerable."

―01/425^[4]

The A-DSD advanced dwarf spider droid was a more heavily armed and armored version of the DSD1 dwarf spider droid and the heavy dwarf spider droid, capable of operating in complete darkness.

Characteristics

"He's slower than a Gungan tree sloth!"

―RC-1207 — 20?cb=20250116042720

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According to Sev, it was slower than a Gungan tree sloth.^[4]

History

Created by Commerce Guild Manufacturers,^[1] this droid was originally built to root out miners who refused to pay the trade conglomerate's tariffs. Available commercially for many years before the Battle of Geonosis, it was used in holographic training simulators for clone troopers on Kamino, but was not manufactured in large numbers until some time after the mobilization of the droid armies due to cost overruns.^[3]