21D2-AN excavation droid

The 21D2-AN excavation droid, also referred to as the 21D2-AN excavator unit, was a boxy model of excavation droid. During the Clone Wars, Count Dooku of the Confederacy of Independent Systems requisitioned two of the droids for a mission to the Expansion Region planet Diso. The count used the two excavator units to dig up the Temple of Diso, which was buried beneath hundreds of tons of salt under a salt flat. The work was completed in a matter of hours, but the temple heavily damaged the two 21D2-AN excavation droids when it reacted to its exposure, as the structure was vergence in the Dark side of the Force.

The two droids were heavily damaged but still mobile enough to be moved away from the temple by B1-series battle droids. Their parts were later collected by the local shaman Ensoor-Koda-Za and one of the excavator droid's claws was converted into an altar in his cave.

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