P-100 salvage droid

"On the Baroonda track it was a busy day for the salvage droids, which scoured two square kilometers collecting Podracer pieces belonging to the late Turbo McMerrit."

―From the Fode and Beed Show^[1]

The P-100 salvage droid, also known as the maintenance spider droid, was a small repulsorlift droid, produced by Serv-O-Droid, Inc., in operation during the last decades of the Galactic Republic.

Characteristics

A deploying P-100s. — A salvage droid holding arm deploying P-100s.

The P-100 was a multi-armed salvage droid commonly deployed from the underside of a large transport craft. They were largely used to retrieve scrap parts from crash sites on Podrace courses. They had an overpowered repulsorlift engine so they could pick up heavy loads. Once the P-100 droids were reloaded into the holding arm, it would return to the main podrace arena to drop off collected parts. If an owner did not claim their parts within two hours they would either be auctioned or sold, often to Jawas.^[1]

History

In addition to scavenging, these droids were used for other jobs, such as package delivery and search-and-rescue. Several thousand were outfitted with low power stun blasters and let loose on Coruscant to deal with a stratt infestation.^[1]

Smaller variants of this model were used for the transport of luggage and other small cargo on Coruscant.^[2]