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Shovel Droid Walkers (SDW) were among the most simplest and primitive droids ever produced by the Mining Guild as a subsidiary of the Commerce Guild with aid of the Techno Union. Many were created after the New Sith Wars and already their various models SDW 1 to SDW 283, so that even their more modern models were outdated when the Commerce Guild began in 700 BC. Later giveng rise to more modern Excavator Droids the original SDW were just that, walking droids with shovel-hands and arms. Earlier models had been bipedal, like their creators they were modeled after, but later variants would use a more insect-like or spider-like pair of legs for improved stability even on uneven surfaces and unstable grounds. Many of them were completely outdated and long replaced during the Stark Hyperspace War, with the last remnants only to be found in Mining Museeums, or the poor, less advanced worlds of the Outer Rim, were these older, outdated droid models were often all the locals could finance in Credits and therefore many old, yes even ancient droid models survived in the Rim, even centuries and millennia after their last variants had ever been seen in the Core Worlds. This made the Rim an ideal place for nostalgic droid collectors of all sorts. When the Mining Guild was incapable, or unwilling to investigate into a minor area further, this older droid models were often all their contractors, partners and workers were send to limit the Guilds expanses and that of the bigger Commerce Guild by using these old, outdated models. Often more mechanic then other droids these operating them had therefore to repair and replace parts often by fixing them with what they got, creating some strange ugly version of them in the Rim, as exchange parts for them were often no longer produced for centuries, if not longer and older droid junkyards were therefore often raided for fitting parts of these or other droids in the Rim. While by no means modern in any way, shape or form, they only served a simple purpose, excavating, lifting and moving materials such as rock and soil. But even that they only could do to a limited capacity if their tonnage was compared to some of the more modern and advanced versions or successor models of these droids.

During the Separatist Crisis and the later Clone Wars some of these SDW would become more important again, especial on the poorer worlds of the Outer Rim, were their skills and abilities were used to prepare local defenses like trenches, mounts, bunkers and fortifications against the Grand Army of the Republic. In some instances a few of them were even used directly on th battle field, were they would threw large rocks at enemy infantry, vehicles and tanks, or lift them up and crush them in their shovels themselves. Their destruction as slow moving and large targets in these skirmishes and battles often meant that they were not available for clearing the battlefields and rebuilding afterwards, which was why the locals often attempted to repair droids like these to aid with the repairs and rebuilding. Therefore many of these droids sometimes with a repaint over their old Mining Guild, Commerce Guild or Separatist Alliance/ Confederacy of Independence Systems with Republic, local System and Worlds, or Imperial logos and colors painted over them to indicate they would now represent the new rule and government, if the former Separatist worlds had been taken over. This way many of the SDW would continue to serve on many of these worlds even within the next century, meaning some of them would outlive their original production and series service date by a millennia. However over such a period of time it was clear that very few of these old, outdated SDW droids would actually look like their originals when coming out of the production line of their droid factories. Other droids would even implement parts of them like their shovel hands and arms when the original SDW droid was to badly damaged, outdated, or rusty to fulfill his original purpose on his own any longer, leading to a huge variety of ugly droids among the Outer Rim that was constantly expanding and evolving, especial as many locals choose to create their very own droid instead of waiting for highly priced droids to be shipped to their remote world, or outposts on said worlds in the Outer Rim. This was also the reason why some SDW production droid factories had originally been established on some of this Outer Rim worlds by the massive Conglomerates that later formed the Separatist Alliance, as local production, even with the added costs of building a factory was often cheaper then massive shipments of droids and other machinery and vehicles from other worlds.

Description
Shovel Droid Walkers (SDW) were among the most simplest and primitive droids ever produced by the Mining Guild as a subsidiary of the Commerce Guild with aid of the Techno Union. Many were created after the New Sith Wars and already their various models SDW 1 to SDW 283, so that even their more modern models were outdated when the Commerce Guild began in 700 BC. Later giveng rise to more modern Excavator Droids the original SDW were just that, walking droids with shovel-hands and arms. Earlier models had been bipedal, like their creators they were modeled after, but later variants would use a more insect-like or spider-like pair of legs for improved stability even on uneven surfaces and unstable grounds. Many of them were completely outdated and long replaced during the Stark Hyperspace War, with the last remnants only to be found in Mining Museeums, or the poor, less advanced worlds of the Outer Rim, were these older, outdated droid models were often all the locals could finance in Credits and therefore many old, yes even ancient droid models survived in the Rim, even centuries and millennia after their last variants had ever been seen in the Core Worlds. This made the Rim an ideal place for nostalgic droid collectors of all sorts. When the Mining Guild was incapable, or unwilling to investigate into a minor area further, this older droid models were often all their contractors, partners and workers were send to limit the Guilds expanses and that of the bigger Commerce Guild by using these old, outdated models. Often more mechanic then other droids these operating them had therefore to repair and replace parts often by fixing them with what they got, creating some strange ugly version of them in the Rim, as exchange parts for them were often no longer produced for centuries, if not longer and older droid junkyards were therefore often raided for fitting parts of these or other droids in the Rim. While by no means modern in any way, shape or form, they only served a simple purpose, excavating, lifting and moving materials such as rock and soil. But even that they only could do to a limited capacity if their tonnage was compared to some of the more modern and advanced versions or successor models of these droids.

During the Separatist Crisis and the later Clone Wars some of these SDW would become more important again, especial on the poorer worlds of the Outer Rim, were their skills and abilities were used to prepare local defenses like trenches, mounts, bunkers and fortifications against the Grand Army of the Republic. In some instances a few of them were even used directly on th battle field, were they would threw large rocks at enemy infantry, vehicles and tanks, or lift them up and crush them in their shovels themselves. Their destruction as slow moving and large targets in these skirmishes and battles often meant that they were not available for clearing the battlefields and rebuilding afterwards, which was why the locals often attempted to repair droids like these to aid with the repairs and rebuilding. Therefore many of these droids sometimes with a repaint over their old Mining Guild, Commerce Guild or Separatist Alliance/ Confederacy of Independence Systems with Republic, local System and Worlds, or Imperial logos and colors painted over them to indicate they would now represent the new rule and government, if the former Separatist worlds had been taken over. This way many of the SDW would continue to serve on many of these worlds even within the next century, meaning some of them would outlive their original production and series service date by a millennia. However over such a period of time it was clear that very few of these old, outdated SDW droids would actually look like their originals when coming out of the production line of their droid factories. Other droids would even implement parts of them like their shovel hands and arms when the original SDW droid was to badly damaged, outdated, or rusty to fulfill his original purpose on his own any longer, leading to a huge variety of ugly droids among the Outer Rim that was constantly expanding and evolving, especial as many locals choose to create their very own droid instead of waiting for highly priced droids to be shipped to their remote world, or outposts on said worlds in the Outer Rim. This was also the reason why some SDW production droid factories had originally been established on some of this Outer Rim worlds by the massive Conglomerates that later formed the Separatist Alliance, as local production, even with the added costs of building a factory was often cheaper then massive shipments of droids and other machinery and vehicles from other worlds.