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I got this off the Star Wars Collecting news group. This link to deja news is the original post. I don't know where they got it.

Here's the character profile originally written for the POTF2 "Attack" R5-D4, but deleted during Kenner's card redesign.

R5-D4 was once a simple astromech in service to one of the space freighter jockeys frequenting Mos Eisley Spaceport on the planet Tatooine. However, one day the little droid made a wrong turn in the crowded streets of that wretched hive of scum and villainy, and was abducted by a band of scavenging Jawas. He found himself aboard the Jawa's giant sandcrawler, carted about Tatooine's deserts amidst a collection of vaporator parts and broken-down droids. Eventually, the Jawa band stopped at the moisture farm of Owen Lars and his "nephew," Luke Skywalker. The humans offered to purchase R5-D4 from the Jawas, but a misfit R2 unit sneakily sabotaged his motivator, causing it to explode. Skywalker suggested buying the R2 droid instead, and together, the two made galactic history. Meanwhile, R5-D4, damaged by the motivator malfunction and suffering during many days of confinement aboard the sandcrawler, developed a new personality template...one fueled by the desire for *revenge*. He stole parts from the Jawa junkpile, modifying himself and greatly expanding his abilities. Finally, in a desperate bid for freedom, he killed the Jawa leader and escaped into the Tatooine night. Through his information retrieval interface, he eventually learned of the famed exploits of his fellow former prisoner. Now, bristling with newly-added weapons and piloting a stolen starship, R5-D4 is in relentless pursuit of his greatest enemy. His sole desire...DESTROY R2-D2!