The Essential Guide to Droids verscheen in 1999 en was de eerste versie van de 'Droid'-guide. Het werd geschreven door Daniel Wallace die ook de The New Essential Guide to Droids voor zijn rekening nam. Het boek was in zwartwit.

Inhoud 1 Inhoud 1.1 Astromech 1.2 Protocol 1.3 Medical 1.4 Household service 1.5 Commercial service 1.6 Municipal 1.7 Business 1.8 Heavy industrial 1.9 Agricultural 1.10 Courier/transport 1.11 Labor 1.12 Maintenance 1.13 Repair 1.14 Starship-based 1.15 Military 1.16 Assassins 1.17 Training/gladiatorial 1.18 Security 1.19 Interrogation 1.20 Espionage 1.21 Specialized use 1.22 One of a kind 1.22.1 In andere talen

InhoudBewerken

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• A Guide to Major Manufacturers

AstromechBewerken

• P2 en R1
• R2
• R3 en R4
• R5
• R6 en R7

ProtocolBewerken

• 3PO Protocol Droid
• M-3PO Military Protocol Droid
• Em Teedee
• 3D-4X Administrative Droid
• PD Lurrian protocol droid
• LOM protocol droid

MedicalBewerken

• 2-1B Surgical Droid
• MD medical specialist
• FX Medical Assistant

Household serviceBewerken

• TDL Nanny Droid
• Model E
• Guardian droid
• ZZ-4Z ("ZeeZee")
• U2C1 Housekeeping Droid
• SE4 Servant Droid
• R-10 Household Droid
• TT-8L Gatekeeper Droid ("Tattletale")

Commercial serviceBewerken

• Automated sabacc dealer
• Robo-bartender
• C2-R4 Multipurpose Unit

MunicipalBewerken

• Systems control droid
• 12-4C-41 traffic controller
• 5T Tree Feeder
• Inferno Firefighting Robo
• Robo-Hack

BusinessBewerken

• SCM-22 Stenographer
• CZ secretary/comm droid
• TT-40 library droid
• Memory Droid

Heavy industrialBewerken

• EVS Construction Droid
• GRZ-6B w-Wrecker Droid
• FLR Logger ("Lumberdroid")
• LIN Autonomous Minelayer
• 8D8 Smelting Operator
• 11-17 Mining Droid

AgriculturalBewerken

• CD-2 Harvester
• Decon III droid

Courier/transportBewerken

• Messenger droid and message drone
• Drone Barge

LaborBewerken

• ASP
• CLL-8 Binary Load Lifter
• X10-D Draft Droid
• J9 Worker Drone

MaintenanceBewerken

• Imperial City Caintenance Droid
• MN-2E General Maintenance Droid
• EG-6 Power Droid
• 850.AA Public Service Headquarters

RepairBewerken

• WED Treadwell
• LE repair droid

Starship-basedBewerken

• Gyrowheel 1.42.08 recycling droid
• M38 Explorer
• Scout Collector & Surveyor Package
• MULE droid
• Scavenger droid
• MSE-6 ("Mouse Droid")
• RA-7 Death Star Droid

MilitaryBewerken

• Basilisk War Droid
• Xim's War-Robot
• Krath War Droid
• Dark Trooper
• SD-9 and SD-10
• Shadow Droid
• X-1 Viper ("Automadon")
• Arakyd Probot series
• Fromm Tower Droid
• Robot Ramship

AssassinsBewerken

• IG-88 Assassin Droid
• E522 Assassin Droid
• Scarab Droid
• DZ-70 Fugitive Tracker Droid

Training/gladiatorialBewerken

• RHTC-560 Hunter Trainer
• Duelist Elite
• Mark X Executioner

SecurityBewerken

• Red Terror
• G-2RD Guard
• S-EP1 Security Droid
• Foreign Intruder Defense Organism
• 501-Z Police Droid (Zed)
• Hound-W2 SPD
• Ssi-ruuvi Security Droid
• Imperial Mark IV Sentry Droid

InterrogationBewerken

• IT-O Interrogation Droid
• EV Supervisor Droid

EspionageBewerken

• Moon moth
• Fly Eye
• Espionage Droid
• Slicer droid
• Positronic Processor

Specialized useBewerken

• Human Replica Droid and Synthdroid
• B'omarr Brain Walker

One of a kindBewerken

• Vuffi Raa
• Q9-X2
• 8t88
• Gorm the Dissolver
• Widget

Essential Guides
Eerste generatie: Characters - Vehicles & Vessels - Weapons & Technology Planets & Moons - Droids - Chronology - Alien Species Tweede generatie: Characters - Vehicles & Vessels - Weapons & Technology Droids - Chronology - Alien Species Derde generatie: The Force - Atlas - Warfare - Reader's Companion