R5-D4, nicknamed "Red," was an R5-series astromech droid manufactured by Industrial Automaton. On the desert world of Tatooine, R5-D4 was among the droids scavenged and sold by Jawas from their sandcrawler.
When Owen Lars selected R5-D4 for the Lars moisture farm, the droid's bad motivator failed moments after the sale, leading Luke Skywalker to purchase R2-D2 instead. That twist of fate set R2-D2 — and the Death Star plans he carried — on the course that would shape the Galactic Civil War.
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