Battle droid 513

## Physicality

### Species

Cobbled together from a B1-series battle droid, an LM-432 crab droid, and an LR-57 combat/retail droid

## Fidelity

### Affiliation

* Confederacy of Independent Systems (formerly)
* Death Watch (formerly)
* R2-D2
* Gideon's Imperial remnant (formerly)
	+ Junk Droids of Carlac
* K-7R3

**Battle droid 513** was one of many monster battle droids assembled by the Mandalorians of Death Watch for target practice during their stay on the planet Carlac in the midst of the Clone Wars. Death Watch cobbled their training droids together from parts of destroyed droids of various models, including many originating from the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Battle droid 513 specifically was composed of the body of an LR-57 combat/retail droid, parts from a B1-series battle droid and an LM-432 crab droid.

Death Watch would continually reuse 513 alongside numerous other droids for target practice until the arrival of Jedi Padawan, Ahsoka Tano and her Astromech droid, R2-D2, the latter of which would convince 513 and its fellow droids to rebel against their masters, resulting in an firefight during which 513 was destroyed by Bo-Katan Kryze while his compatriots fled off planet.

During the New Republic Era, a nomadic unit of cold weather assault stormtroopers who served under Moff Gideon moved into what once had been the Death Watch camp on Carlac, taking the place as their own. They found the destroyed training droids and rebuilt them, 513 included, and used them for target practice. This was until the arrival of Indiana Jones and K-7R3, who were captured by the snowtroopers, in 9 ABY. K-7R3 convinced 513 and the other droids to rebel against the troopers and help rescue Jones. This resulted in a shootout in which the droids sacrificed themselves once more, much like they did when helping R2 years before; therefore allowing both K-7R3 and Jones to escape the camp and later Carlac.

## History

> "*Please reassemble us. Please reassemble us.*"
> ― 513 to K-7R3
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After the first skirmish on Carlac, battle droid 513 and the other droids were left by themselves destroyed in the abandoned Death Watch camp until they were found many years later during the New Republic Era by a group of snowtroopers who served Moff Gideon. The troopers rebuilt the destroyed droids, 513 included, and as a result they once again had to act as a form of target practice, this time for the Imperial snowtroopers.

In 9 ABY, while operating at the outpost on Carlac, one of the snowtroopers utilized 513 for target practice, utilizing an E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannon to heavily damage the droid and cause him to fall over, all the while crying out in agony as the trooper that shot him laughed at his awareness of the situation. Later that night, while the leader of the troopers, Sharky was meeting with the archaeologist Indiana Jones, 513 would encounter his eventual savior, a KX-series security droid identified as K-7R3, who had been ordered by a pair of snowtroopers to repair their droids so they could be utilized for target practice again. Acknowledging the droid's orders, 513 and the other droids began to surround K-7, begging to be reassembled by the security droid.

Proceeding to repair every one of the snowtrooper deployment's droids, 513 expressed his gratitude to the security droid, asking if there was anything the droids could do for K-7 in return. Knowing that his partner was in captivity, K-7 requested for 513's aid in rescuing Jones to which 513 questioned how such an attempt could be executed. K-7 explained his plan and in response 513 rallied the other target droids to their cause. By the time K-7's rescue attempt was put into place, 513 had gathered the snowtroopers' droids to aid his newfound companion, launching a massive firefight against the Imperials and creating a sufficient diversion to allow K-7 and Jones to escape the snowtroopers. As the battle continued, 513 was destroyed when a snowtrooper armed with a RPS-6 rocket launcher downed him with two missile shots.

## Characteristics

Originally a standard LR-57 combat/retail droid, 513 had lost both its right arm and right leg, which his Mandalorian masters had replaced with that of a B1-series battle droid and LM-432 crab droid, respectively. 513 also had a deep-toned vocabulator, in which it could speak in Galactic Basic, and was capable of shooting blue ion blasts from his arm-mounted double laser cannon. 513's service under Death Watch soon gave the droid a developed personality, able to understand the horrors of being destroyed and rebuilt for target practice, presumably indicating that 513 had been destroyed and rebuilt several times while serving Death Watch, causing it to plead to be reassembled after encountering R2-D2. This unique personality was later showcased further as 513 was quickly convinced by R2 into attacking Death Watch to save Ahsoka Tano and Lux Bonteri after R2 successfully reassembled it, causing a diversion long enough to allow R2 to escape Carlac with his companions, even at the cost of 513's own destruction. 513 still displayed this behavior during his service under the snowtroopers serving in Moff Gideon's Imperial remnant. He showcased this further once more after being repaired by K-7R3, fighting against his Imperial masters and giving K-7 and his partner Indiana Jones sufficient time to escape Carlac.

## Appearances

* "Alliances"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones* (First appearance)