Droid racer

A droid racer, also known as a racer droid, was a type of fast droid starfighter with four wings that could transform into legs. The wings could be used to grab other spacecraft, as well, and the droid was also equipped with four blasters at its wingtips and a pair of blasters at its rear. When in flight mode, a droid racer could be mistaken for a starfighter piloted by an organic individual.

Vranki, the Hutt owner of Vranki's Hotel and Casino in the Outer Rim Territories' Voxx Cluster, owned at least seven droid racers that he used on a nearby starfighter racing circuit. The droids shared their programming with hologames in the casino. In 34 ABY, the mobile station Colossus arrived in the Voxx Cluster so that its Ace Squadron pilots could earn it much-needed credits by racing on Vranki's circuit. When the pilot Hype Fazon competed against one of the droid racers, however, the latter prevailed by grabbing Fazon's starfighter and launching it backwards.

The other Ace Squadron pilots subsequently entered into a series of races Vranki referred to as the Voxx Vortex 5000, in which the Hutt and the droid racers employed similarly underhanded tactics against them while the Colossus mechanic Neeku Vozo attempted to slice into the droids' system. Ultimately, after the droid racers won three of the races, Kazuda Xiono emerged victorious during a relay race that saw him and Torra Doza competing against two of the droids.

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