MD-1 medical droid

The MD-1 was a model of medical droid and a part of the MD-series that was manufactured by Industrial Automaton. It was slightly humanoid in appearance, possessed the ability to project holograms, and was specialized in laboratory chemical analysis.
==Description==
Manufactured by Industrial Automaton, the MD-1 was a first-degree droid that was part of the company's range of MD-series of medical droids. Like all MD-series droids, the MD-1 resembled Industrial Automation's earlier design, the 2-1B surgical droid, and was 1.5 Imperial standard meters tall. The unit consisted of a torso with two arms and a cranial unit, and was bipedal with lower half of the unit covered by a surgical gown to protect its internal mechanisms. MD-1 droids were ambidextrous.
Units of the MD-series were generally covered in gray plating with green highlights, and had yellow photoreceptors. Costing 2,000 credits a unit, they were available for purchase throughout the galaxy. The torso also contained a connection socket located on the lower half to allow the droid to directly connect to a computer.
==Role==
MD-1 droids were designed as laboratory technicians, and were able to perform routine and advanced laboratory analysis on bacteria, germs, poisons, and diseases. They were employed to develop vaccines and antibiotics.
==History==
Constructed on the droid factory world of Telti, they were employed by both the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War. Aboard the Imperial EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate Far Orbit, an MD-1 droid oversaw the sick bay's laboratory.The Far Orbit Project
The Alliance's successor state, the New Republic, employed an MD-1 to assist a 2-1B surgical droid in performing an examination on Urlor Sette, a former Alliance prisoner of war who was rigged to be killed by an internal device installed by Ysanne Isard. When Rogue Squadron pilot mentioned Sette's name, the internal mechanism was triggered, killing the man.X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
During the Yuuzhan Vong war, an MD-1 droid performed laboratory tests on the healing properties of the tears of the Fosh, Vergere.The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
==Appearances==
*Scavenger Hunt 
*X-Wing: Rogue Squadron 
*X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
*The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
==Sources==
*The Star Wars Sourcebook 
*The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook 
*Star Wars Technical Journal of the Planet Tatooine
*The Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, Second Edition 
*The Star Wars Sourcebook, Second Edition 
*Star Wars Technical Journal
*Flashpoint! Brak Sector
*The Far Orbit Project
*The Essential Guide to Droids
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*Arms & Equipment Guide
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia 
*Strongholds of Resistance
==Notes and references==
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