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- Affiliation:
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From the Movies
While a crashed Podracer can please an audience starved for entertainment, the resulting debris makes for an even more hazardous course. To clean up the wreckage, race organizers employ these hovering salvage droids. They are carried to wreck sites in hovering holding arms that deposit them through ventral chutes. The cap-shaped droids then pick up the wreckage with articulated limbs.
From the Expanded Universe
Omnidirectional homing mechanics housed in the holding arm help the P-100 Salvage Droids locate distress beacons carried by downed Podracers. Each holding arm carries three P-100s that pick the wreckage clean of salvageable parts. The arm can carry up to 500 kilograms of scrap back to the Podrace hangar. Pilots have two hours to claim their junked vehicles before they are auctioned off or sold to Jawas.
Behind the Scenes
Though the salvage droid was designed and included in early animatics of the Podrace sequence, they were ultimately cut out of the released film. Newly completed effects footage of them in action is included in the DVD release of
The Phantom Menace.
