R4-P17/Legends

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- Obi-Wan Kenobi to R4-P17, upon reaching Tatooine

R4-P17, nicknamed R4, or Arfour, was the astromech droid attached to Obi-Wan Kenobi's Delta-7 Aethersprite-class starfighter and was often on board his Delta-7B Aethersprite-class starfighter and Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor prior to and during the Clone Wars.

History
The droid originally possessed the R4-series's trademark conical head dome, but was involved in a messy incident while trying to repair a trash compactor on Gyndine, resulting in the droid being crushed. Anakin Skywalker, on a visit to the shipyards to inspect the Jedi customizations to the Delta-7, found R4's wreck and rebuilt her with an R2-series dome. From that point on the communal property of the Jedi Temple, R4 became the prototype for other integrated droid navigators in Jedi ships. As part of the Delta-7, the astromech had a truncated body,which was permanently attached to the ship.



Prior to the Clone Wars, she helped Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi to follow Jango Fett´s Slave I from Kamino to Geonosis. The fighter that she was in was recovered after or during the battle that took place later.

During the Clone Wars, the Jedi began to transition away from the Delta-7. R4 was given a full astromech body, white, with red trim, to make her compatible with the new Delta-7B Aethersprite-class interceptor and Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor used by General Kenobi. However, before she received her full body, Obi-Wan temporarily used a droid called R4-G9. After he switched back to R4-P17, Obi-Wan requisitioned a direct link between the two droids to ensure all flight performance records could be transferred between them.

R4 also went to Tatooine, to negotiate with Jabba Desilijic Tiure, participated in the Battle of Teth and Rodia to search for the bounty hunter Cad Bane from kidnapping a youngling.

R4-P17 later had the top half of her head cut off due to a buzz droid attack in the Battle of Coruscant while aboard Kenobi's Eta-2, and the remains of the droid were lost for good when the rear half of Invisible Hand jettisoned while Skywalker and Kenobi tried to land the damaged flagship. Obi-Wan then switched back to R4-G9.

Behind the scenes
R4-P17 was originally supposed to be on one of the posts in the Geonosian execution arena along with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala, and Anakin Skywalker. However, this was changed, and her death was moved to the Battle of Coruscant.

In the Revenge of the Sith novel, she is mistakenly referred to as male.

In the novelization of Attack of the Clones, Boba and Jango Fett are able to recognize R4-P17 as an R4-P class droid. However, since this droid had the head of an R2 Unit, and since only its head was visible, the Fetts would not have been able to guess its true class.

At some points in Revenge of the Sith, R4-P17's body appears red with white trim.

In LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, R4-P17 is a playable character. In this version, she accompanies Obi-Wan Kenobi into Tipoca City (this change was made to enable the two-player drop-in/ drop-out co-op created for the game). However, her head in the game doesn't have her mostly red color scheme; instead, it has a color scheme similar to that of R2-M5. This essentially complied with the 2002 Jedi Starfighter model, which featured R4-P17 in this color.

Appearances

 * Full of Surprises
 * Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones novel
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones comic
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones junior novel
 * Precipice
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * Star Wars: Republic 53: Blast Radius
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novel
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
 * Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novel
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
 * Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows

Non-canon appearances

 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga