3C-FD

3C-FD was a utility droid on the light freighter Ebon Hawk when it was returning from Unknown Regions carrying the Jedi Exile, an ex-Jedi Knight returning to the Galactic Republic after her exile. 3C-FD helped utility droid T3-M4, who was on a mission to find the woman, to repair the ship to adequate flying condition after a disastrous escape from the hands of the Sith. Together, the droids were able to pilot the ship close to the Peragus Mining Facility, however, 3C-FD was destroyed by an HK-50 series assassin droid before the severely damaged ship and its unconscious passengers reached the docks of the facility.

Biography
3C-FD was a 3C-series utility droid created by Duwani Mechanical Products during the time period of the Jedi Civil War and the Dark Wars. In 3,951 BBY, the light freighter Ebon Hawk escaped from the Sith-infiltrated Republic cruiser Harbinger by jumping to hyperspace, after taking a severe amount of damage. The unconscious former Jedi Knight known as the Jedi Exile, now returning to the Galactic Republic after her exile, was brought onboard from the Harbinger by utility droid T3-M4 and ex-Jedi Master Kreia, who were both attempting to find the Jedi and bring her to safety. When the ship emerged from hyperspace near the Peragus asteroid field next to the planet Peragus II, the ship was drifting in space without functioning engines.

The Ebon Hawk seemed lifeless, except for T3-M4, who began his attempt to fix the ship to flying condition. From the cargo hold, he found a damaged 3C-FD, and repaired the droid, inviting it to accompany him. The duo did the required repairs using components from a proton torpedo, and the parts that were scattered around the ship for the hyperdrive, and then restored power to the port engine. The starboard engine remained inoperative, but one engine was enough to make the ship spaceworthy, and T3-M4 was able to pilot the Ebon Hawk into the Peragus Mining Facility.

Prior to the Ebon Hawk arrival on Peragus Station and the Exile's subsequent acquisition of the ship, 3C-FD was shot several times and irreparably damaged by a stowaway HK-50 series assassin droid hiding in the Ebon Hawk. The droid's remains were later found in a quarantine locker by T3-M4, during his efforts to find a way to unlock the administrative level of the station and facilitate the Exile's escape. Soon after these events, the facility was destroyed.

Behind the scenes
3C-FD was first introduced in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, a video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment that was first released in December 2004. The droid initially appears as a playable character in a skippable tutorial section called Prelude where the player learns how to interact with the world in the game while repairing the Ebon Hawk with T3-M4, and later in Peragus Mining station.

There are at least two options for the player to use 3C-FD in Peragus: it can be issued a self-destruct code by T3-M4 in order to blast open the door to the locker from the inside, allowing T3 access to the ship's other gear. Alternatively, the door can be blasted open from the outside and 3C-FD merely abandoned in its broken state. Sometimes, when returning into the quarantine area, the game's program forgets to render 3C-FD as destroyed due to a scripting error. Therefore it looks around, bounces, and beeps. When the player clicks on the droid, the text states 3C-FD is destroyed beyond repair.

The New Essential Guide to Droids, a 2006 Essential Guide written by Daniel Wallace, has an entry for this droid, containing its technical data and summary of the events that led to its destruction.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords