Unidentified WED-15 Treadwell (Lars homestead)

This droid was a WED-15 Treadwell repair droid produced by one of the two largest droid manufacturing companies, Cybot Galactica sometime before the Battle of Yavin. The droid was one of the two Treadwells working for moisture farmer Owen Lars's family on the planet Tatooine. The other one was WED-15-77, who served on the farm for more than twenty years.

Personality and programming
As a fifth class droid, this Treadwell had only limited intelligence. Sometimes, it followed sandflies, misidentifying their noise as a malfunctioning piece of equipment.

Features and functions
WED-15-77 was a typical Treadwell repair droid with two treads on its base. The droid's binocular photoreceptors were mounted on a long, telescopic stalk, which also holded its arms.

Behind the scenes
This droid first appeared in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, written and directed by George Lucas and first released in May 25, 1977. The Dorling Kindersley's Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy incorrectly identified this droid as "WED 15 Septoid 2", which was an other type of Treadwell droid. An other Treadwell droid, WED-15-77 appeared in a scene that was cut from A New Hope. The droid broke down, and Skywalker left it in the desert. In the radio drama, WED-15-77 didn't melt down, just stopped moving, and Owen mentined later, that he didn't need an other Treadwell, because he already had one. This suggests, that this unidentified droid was intended to be WED-15-77, not an other droid of the same line. However, the Databank confirmed the meltdown to be final. Accoring to the Databank, the same droid model was used for WED-15-77 in a cutscene and for WED-15-I662 in the Jawa sandcrawler's droid bay.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope