M4-78

M4-78 was a legendary planet of droids, supposedly dating back to the Old Republic. I-5YQ once joked about being the deposed ruler of the planet while he was on Drongar.

Much of the planet's history is unknown, however, it is known that droids were sent to the planet to prepare for colonization. The droid in charge of this operation was an intelligence named M4-78. During their time on the planet, the Sith arrived and claimed that they were the colonists. Believing them to be the original colonists of the planet, M4-78 ordered the droids of the plant to serve the Sith in any way necessary. Things began to changed when the Sith ordered the droids to shut down the planet's intelligence to conserve energy as they created a droid army. However, another major reason the Sith ordered this was to secretly exploit the planet's resources.

When Master Lonna Vash and her apprentice Kaah Ohtok came to M4-78 in hopes of ending Sith occupation upon the planet, Kaah caused a poisonous gas lethal to organics to be released killing all of the Sith on the planet. It is due to this reason that only droids have been able to survive on the planet.

Before their deaths, however, the Sith gave the droid inhabitants one final command that forbade anyone from reactivating the planet's intelligence. So far, they have obeyed.

Behind the scenes

 * M4-78 was originally created for Knights of the Old Republic II, but was cut from the game due to time constraints, although at least one mention of the planet can be found in the game. It has been acknowledged however that the Jedi Exile never visited the planet. The planet became canon when referenced in the short story Medstar: Intermezzo.
 * Although M4-78 was seen during a showing at E3, it was cut out of the final game for a number of reasons. One of the major reasons, however, is that because Obsidian was being pushed by LucasArts to complete the game by Christmas, they had to make some cuts to the game in order to finish development. M4-78 was one of those cuts.
 * Other reasons for the cut was because the other planets in the game didn't have too much content, so a majority of the elements on M4-78 were moved to other planets in the game. For example, the shuttle docking puzzle on Nar Shaddaa was originally a puzzle on M4-78. Another reason why it was cut was because its plot was nearly indentical to the Peragus Mining Facility section of the game.

Appearances

 * ''KotOR II Planned Content
 * Medstar: Intermezzo

External link

 * M4-78 Restoration Project (an effort to put M4-78 back into KotOR II; redirects to m4-78.somee.com due to technical issues)