NTI-56 automated mining drone

"Drill. Vein found. Cave-in."

- An NTI-56's standard entire vocabulary

The  was a mining drone produced by Tryuin Industries during its control by Gasrany Kiebel. For its time, it was fairly high-quality, and despite an extremely limited vocabulary and sense of communication, the droid was comparatively intelligent and quick-witted, and had several volumes of geological textbooks and methods hardwired into its CPU. It was used by the thousands on mining worlds such as and, and Tryuin, sensing a market it could create for itself, churned out hundreds of millions of the droids, even when demand decreased. Due to its large number and robustness, the NTI-56 remained in use for a long time.