- Mechanical body
- Programmable intelligence
- Powered by internal power cells
- Produced in a wide variety of designs
- Required periodic maintenance
- Often received memory wipes
- Manufactured in factories
- Manufactured across the galaxy
- Served organic civilizations in nearly every profession
- Most were treated as property rather than independent beings
- Some developed distinct personalities and independent thought
- Droids were created more than 25,000 years before the Galactic Civil War
- They became essential throughout the Galactic Republic
- The Separatists used enormous droid armies during the Clone Wars
- The Galactic Empire reduced its use of battle droids
- Droids continued serving the New Republic, First Order, and Resistance
- The possibility of droid rights remained debated throughout galactic history
