LEP-171B was a dedicated LEP-series service droid that served in the LEP droid pool of the Coruscant Security Force during the Clone Wars. It was assigned to Lieutenant Tanivos Divo, who made extensive use of it to manage his collection of datapads during investigations, as the eccentric officer liked to keep a separate datapad for each part of a case. In 21 BBY,^[4] LEP-171B accompanied Divo to the office of Onaconda Farr, a senator who had been murdered, in order to investigate the crime scene.^[2]

Behind the scenes[]

LEP-171B first appeared in Senate Murders, the fifteenth episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season Two, which first aired on March 19, 2010 in the United States.^[5] In the new Star Wars canon, the droid was first identified in Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 65, a magazine released by De Agostini in 2018.^[2] The designation originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where the droid was first identified in Star Wars: The Clone Wars: New Battlefronts: The Visual Guide, a 2010 reference book written by Jason Fry.^[6]

Appearances[]

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Senate Murders" (First appearance)

Sources[]

• "Senate Murders" - The Clone Wars Episode Guide on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link) (Picture only)
• Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2 65 (Droid Directory: Coruscant Law-Enforcement Droids) (First identified as LEP-171B)
• LEP Servant Droid in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)

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