What happened to the droids after the clone wars.

[Darth Fanboy]

In the "Last of the Jedi" series of books it is demonstrated that separatist droids were integrated into the Imperial forces, even B1s found use. Droidekas usage is mentioned in "Survivor's Quest".

It is also mentioned in "Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader" that the Empire as well as other factions are attempting to get control over as much deactivated Separatist hardware as possible, including starships.

[Darth Wong]

Droids are relatively low maintenance compared to humans - you don't pay them salaries, you don't have to pay for food, room and board, medical, etc. Droids also don't require stuff like alcohol or the SW equivalent of cigarettes or other luxury items (for which they might pay for legally or illegally)

Eh... they do require maintenance, and electronics and precision machinery are not cheap. This could be a tossup. Although since Star Wars uses droids as menial slaves in certain environments, I suppose the maintenance could be cheaper than I'd think.

Do you have any proof to back up your assertions?

Do you have any proof to back up yours? In real-life, tanks (for example) require considerable maintenance: many hours every day, with a bulky logistical train to boot. The addition of mechanized vehicles to armies created an enormous increase in their logistical requirements. You can't just declare that droids are low-maintenance by personal fiat. For all you know, they are highly prone to breakdown and require expensive and exotic parts (or junking and replacement, for the cheap-shit B1s) on a regular basis.

We've seen plenty of the industrial capabilities of SW to know that building droids is trivial, even if its just low end crap like the Trade federation used. And the infrastructure to maintain them would be far easier to handle than with humans (something as simple as setting up an automated factory in an asteroid belt or on a planet.) Nevermind that droids are so ubiquitus and robust that farmers and slaves on backwater planets can get them. Droids don't need to eat, sleep, be paid, given time off, medical attention, they don't age the way humans do, etc.

Tanks don't need to eat, sleep, be paid, get time off, medical attention, or age like humans either, yet they enormously increase a real-life army's logistical difficulties. You're still making some assumptions here. Also, units like police-style stormtroopers could "live off the land" in a sense because there would be locally produced foods they could consume. This would also increase the economic wealth distribution effect of the military, which would be potentially useful to Palpatine's regime. The construction of droids may be trivial for the Empire, but so is the provision of food to vast numbers of troops and workers, so that doesn't mean much either way. The infrastructure is in no way whatsoever guaranteed to be cheaper for droids; we don't know much about their infrastructure at all. People don't write about that sort of thing in books, and if they did, it would be ignorant crap anyway.

[Connor MacLeod]

Conceded.

[Simon_Jester]

Though Connor still has a point. Droids do seem to be far cheaper than you'd expect in Star Wars. So much so that they can be used profitably in situations where we'd normally expect to see menial laborers... unless places like Jabba's palace use the droids as a status symbol: "I am so rich that I can afford to maintain an army of robot slaves, rather than being forced to rely on meatbag slaves."