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The Jedi training droids were a model of droid used for various purposes in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant including verbally teaching a Padawan about Force-enhanced abilities and lightsaber practice. While a range of different forms and models existed, the droids were primarily skeletal bipeds, based on a humanoid frame.
Housed within the sparring chambers of the Jedi Temple, the droids were activated to act as sparring partners for Jedi Padawans and Knights. Although the training rooms differed in design, several training chambers in the First Knowledge Quarter contained statues of Jedi surrounding a sunken floor. The droids were deployed through the chest of these statues and would proceed to duel the Jedi until they were deactivated. Others were made to shoot electricity through their fingertips, in an attempt to replicate Force lightning.
The reclusive Jedi technician Kazdan Paratus was in charge of maintaining and creating new and specialized droids to use in the sparring chambers. Anakin Skywalker was also known to crowd the halls of the Temple with new droids, some of which he did use for sparring practice.
Training remotes were another form of droids used and stored in the Temple during the Old Republic.
Behind the scenes
Both JTR-47 and droid 1138 appear at least twice during the 2001 video game Star Wars: Obi-Wan's training course. While possible that there were more than one of both droids, their names were most likely just recycled during development.
Droid 1138 is one of many references to George Lucas's first film, THX 1138.
Appearances
- Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Obi-Wan
- Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison 2
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Expanded Jedi Temple download only)