Unidentified Imperial communications droid

"I don't know if I've ever seen a droid save someone like that before&hellip; rather unusual behavior."

- Yalta Val

An Imperial communications droid played a significant role in the life of Ania Solo and her hunt for the Sith Darth Wredd in the aftermath of the second Imperial Civil War.

Biography
"RECONNOITER. CHECK FOR SURVIVORS. RETRIEVE. HOME."

- The communications droid, retrieving Yalta Val's lightsaber from the planet Mala

In the year 138 ABY, an Imperial communications droid served the Galactic Federation Triumvirate. While on a mission to the Carreras system with the Imperial Knight Yalta Val, the comm droid was sent out into the Surd Nebula to act as a beacon due the nebula's blocking of communications. When Val's shuttle crashed onto the planet Mala, he was ambushed by a Sith master and apprentice and taken prisoner. The comm droid checked for other survivors, found none, and then retrieved Val's lightsaber. While rocketing away from the planet on a course for the Triumvirate's home base of Coruscant, the droid was heavily damaged by tiny particles from the nebula. It made it only as far as the Carreras system, where it ended up in the junk yard of one Ania Solo.

Solo brought the droid to her friend Sauk on a Carreras Minor ice mining platform, where the lightsaber was uncovered from the droid's interior. Their attempts to sell the weapon led to a run-in with the law, and their successful escape saw them attacked by the Sith apprentice&mdash;Darth Wredd&mdash;at Solo's junkyard. The IG-series droid AG-37 ferried Solo and Saul offworld in his freighter, where Sauk, devastated at finding himself a refugee and a criminal, tinkered with the comm droid and uncovered a hologram of Yalta Val dueling the Sith Master. On AG-37's request, the comm droid enhanced the image of Val's lightsaber, and the group realized that it was the same weapon as the one they possessed. A flight from a sudden blockade of Shifalan starships led the freighter to Carreras Minor's surface, where Sauk was finally able to stabilize the comm droid's power source.

When the Imperial Knight Jao Assam, who was searching for his wayward comrade, showed up and saved the group from a tentacled serpent, the now-functional comm droid flew out of the ship on its repulsorlifts and played the hologram for the newcomer. It then provided the coordinates for the planet Mala, but the group's rescue attempt was cut short when they were caught in the tractor beam of a Shifalan patrol ship. The Shifalans were following the orders of Darth Wredd, who was posing as Yalta Val, and Solo's group were all thrown into holding cells in the Carreras communications array. The comm droid was the lone exception, as it managed to hide in a floor compartment located near a Carreras starfighter in a hangar. Solo and her companions were freed by the Shifalan governor Biala, who was tired of "Yalta Val" undermining her authority, but Wredd attacked the group in the hangar and severely injured most of them.

Jao Assam in particular was knocked out of the hangar and into the vacuum of space, but the comm droid followed, placing a breath mask onto the Imperial Knight's face and keeping him alive. Solo, having emerged from the battle relatively unscathed, hopped into a Carreras starfighter and followed the departing Wredd to Mala, where she freed Yalta Val from his chains. As Val dueled Wredd, Solo returned to the communications array and brought her comrades aboard AG-37's freighter; she then returned to Mala and picked up Val in time to save him from the communications array, which was crashing onto the planet's surface. As AG-37's freighter made its way out of the system, it came across Assam and the comm droid, both of whom it brought aboard.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Legacy: Prisoner of the Floating World
 * Star Wars: Legacy: Outcasts of the Broken Ring