The StelProbe V Droid served as an exploration and contact droid, according to Legends material. Equipped with a vast array of sensors, it boasted significant capabilities for storing and analyzing data, along with sophisticated weaponry. Resembling a 4-meter-tall crustacean due to its numerous clawed limbs, this unit was quite imposing. Its programming included defensive mechanisms, causing it to react aggressively to any entity approaching within 5 meters. Despite this, the droid was programmed to avoid confrontations whenever possible, choosing to escape rather than engage in combat. StelProbe V units were capable of achieving speeds of 100 km/hour.
In its early days, the droid commanded a high price; the Karflo Corporation estimated its value in the millions of credits. The Alliance to Restore the Republic greatly desired it, hoping to reverse engineer its cutting-edge technology.
Soon after its creation, the Karflo Corporation deployed a StelProbe to explore the largely uncharted planet Wizar II within the Wizar system. Upon entering the atmosphere, the droid encountered difficulties, resulting in a crash landing that compromised its computer systems. Although it persisted in its exploration mission, it ceased transmitting regular updates to Karflo.
The Uroths, a squid-like native species of Wizar II, observed the droid traversing their territory. They misinterpreted its hostile response to their presence as a sign that it was their god of death, returned to announce the end of the world. The Uroths shadowed the droid for a period before eventually capturing it.
Concurrently, Karflo's management offered a reward of 10,000 credits to anyone who could retrieve the droid for them. A band of spacers accepted the mission and journeyed to Wizar II. There, they encountered the Uroths, who were unwilling to relinquish the droid. Nevertheless, the spacers succeeded in recovering the unit and returning it to Karflo.
The StelProbe V is featured in "Droid Hunt," an adventure seed by Bill Olmesdahl for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, 2nd Edition. The quest to find the droid is presented as an example of a quest-based adventure.
The players typically assume the roles of spacers. However, Olmesdahl provides an alternative scenario where they act as agents of the Rebel Alliance. In this role, they are instructed to conceal their activities by scattering droid components across the planet to create the impression that the StelProbe V was destroyed on impact. Alternatively, the droid's reactor might be damaged and at risk of imminent overload, potentially destroying the Uroths. Lastly, the player characters might face competition in their efforts to recover the droid.