R5-D4

Key events in R5-D4's story

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22 BBY - Rolling Through Mos Espa

Serving a master in Mos Espa, R5-D4 is out in the streets when Anakin Skywalker returns to Tatooine to search for his mother.

~4 BBY - Memory Wiped by Jawas

After working with the early rebellion against the Empire, R5-D4 ends up with a Jawa clan. The Jawas wipe its memory, and it spends years stored in their sandcrawler hoping to be sold.

1 BBY - Meeting R2-D2

The Jawas capture R2-D2 and put him in the same sandcrawler. R2 starts sabotaging R5 to remove the competition, then stops and explains that the Rebellion needs him to be sold.

1 BBY - Sacrifice at the Lars Homestead

Owen Lars picks R5-D4 over R2-D2. R5 deliberately blows its head plate, faking a bad motivator, so Owen buys R2-D2 instead and the Death Star plans reach Luke Skywalker.

1 BBY - Surviving the Sandcrawler Massacre

R5 plays dead while stormtroopers kill the Jawas, then sets off along their trade route to look for a new owner and the Rebellion.

~0 ABY - Recruited by Voren Na'al

While researching Luke Skywalker's origins, the Alliance historian Voren Na'al finds R5-D4 on Tatooine, buys it cheaply, repairs its motivator and records its account of the droid sale.

~0–5 ABY - Service with the Rebellion

R5 is assigned to Carson Teva's X-wing squadron and takes part in several classified missions during the Galactic Civil War.

~5 ABY - Returned to Tatooine

After the Battle of Jakku, Na'al wipes R5's memory and returns it to Tatooine, where it wanders the dunes before reaching Mos Eisley.

~5–9 ABY - Trainee at Chalmun's Cantina

EV-9D9 finds R5 by the cantina's garbage masher and takes it on as a trainee bartender. When a Trandoshan patron kicks R5, EV-9D9 poisons his drink and leaves with the droid.

~9 ABY - Joining Peli Motto's Hangar

EV-9D9 brings R5 to Hangar 3-5, and Peli Motto takes it in. R5 projects a map of Tatooine that shows Din Djarin where Mos Pelgo is.

~9 ABY - Reunion with R2-D2

R5 is at Peli's hangar when R2-D2 arrives with Grogu in Luke Skywalker's X-wing.

~9 ABY - Sold to Din Djarin

Peli sells a reluctant R5 to Din Djarin at half price, and it joins his mission to the Living Waters of Mandalore.

~9 ABY - Mines of Mandalore

R5 goes into the ruins to take an air sample and confirms the atmosphere is breathable. After Djarin is captured, R5 and Grogu bring Bo-Katan Kryze from Kalevala to rescue him.

~9 ABY - Pirate Campaign and the Mandalorian Fleet

R5 passes the covert's location to Carson Teva, flies as co-pilot against Gorian Shard's pirates, and is with Bo-Katan when she finds the Mandalorian fleet on Plazir-15.

~9 ABY - Liberation of Mandalore

At Moff Gideon's base, R5 gets past its droids, sends the schematics to Djarin and shuts down four shields, then escapes on its rocket boosters before the base is destroyed.

~9 ABY - Joining the Adelphi Rangers

After Mandalore is liberated, R5 enters New Republic service at Adelphi Base.