Description
Industrial Automaton's RD units are droids founded in function: repairing and maintaining starships. Their small size and four limbs allows them to easily maneuver between ship panels and parts to get to what's broken. Once they find what's causing the sparks, they use their range of tools (stored behind the panels of each limb) to get the ship back to functional again.
Problem on the ceiling or cannon fire is shaking things up? Not a problem for the RD unit's magseals in the limb tips. Blaster holes causing a headache? The RD unit's fusioncutter easily welds together blasted apart ship panels. Need to update your navigation system? The RD unit can store data and use its data probe to link with your starship to make sure your astrogation system never fails. Not sure what's causing the smoke? The RD unit is equipped with eight different photoreceptors and sensors to detect problems through various starship materials.
These are just a small example of what makes the RD unit Industrial Automaton's best, and most versatile, starship repair and maintenance droid yet.
RD-K5 is no exception, being the Rebel Alliance's most reliable, cheeky, and grateful repair and maintenance droid. Rescued from scrappers after nearly being disassembled, Kayfive dedicated the rest of their life to the rebel mechanic that found them, Kara Draden. A few mismatched panels and a repair later, Kayfive quickly became the Alliance's favorite RD unit. From repairing U-wings on Yavin 4, T-47s on Hoth, to X-wings and more beyond the fall of the Empire, Kayfive proved the usefulness of an RD unit and set the standard for what repair droids should be.