R5-P8

"That's Gwarm's droid!"

―Han Solo^[6]

R5-P8 was an astromech droid owned by the Ohnaka Gang during the Clone Wars. In addition to a unique paint job, the droid was also heavily modified with a Weequay blaster pistol mounted atop his head.

Biography[]

"Your old crew member's a droid. Of course he's a droid."
"R5-P8. We tried a handful of names but he never took to any of them."

―Kay Vess and Hondo Ohnaka^[4]

R5-P8-SWZ — R5-P8 firing his head-mounted blaster pistol

R5-P8^[3] was a member of the Ohnaka Gang which was led by Hondo Ohnaka. During the capture of Count Dooku, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, R5-P8 was present during the escape.^[8]

During the rise of the Galactic Empire, the Ohnaka Gang dissipated, engendering R5 to join a new gang, led by former Ohnaka Gang co-leader Gwarm.^[6]

Over twenty cycles before^[4] 3 ABY,^[9] Ohnaka left R5 at the Ohnaka Hideout in the Dune Sea region of the planet Tatooine as a guard.^[4] That year,^[9] smuggler Kay Vess discovered a disabled R5 there in while in search of part of an ancient artifact. Much to R5's displeasure, she was working with Hondo Ohnaka, who left R5 in such a state. R5 was able to summon his friendly Varaki which led a pack of Massiffs in order to scare Kay off. Kay was able to defeat the pack leader and befriended R5 who gave her the hilt section of the artifact. Vess would later ask her friend Gedeek Obaz, a Rodian droidsmith, to travel the hideout and repair him.^[4]

Decades later, during the First Order-Resistance War, Hondo Ohnaka once again gained possession of the droid, who worked as his assistant at Ohnaka Transport Solutions in the Black Spire Outpost on Batuu, though by this time the blaster had been removed from his head.^[10]

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Behind the scenes[]

R5-P8 appears in pre-show scenes of the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge attraction, Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run, before guests board the Millennium Falcon. He can also be heard whistling and beeping one last time before guests leave, as Hondo Ohnaka is going through the damage report of the Falcon.