Bug One (droid)

Bug One was a YVH-Series bugcruncher battle droid that participated on the side of the New Jedi Order in the Battle of Kr in 35 ABY. In the methane ice corridors of Kr Bug One fought Killik warriors of the Gorog hive until he was disabled.

History
Bug One was produced by Tendrando Arms by the year 35 ABY, at a time when the Unknown Regions were experiencing the Dark Nest Crisis, which was a series of conflicts between The Colony, the Chiss Ascendancy, and the New Jedi Order and the New Republic. That year, Tendrando Arms loaned the former smuggler Han Solo&mdash;who's wife Leia Organa was a Jedi in training&mdash;Bug One and three other YVH-Series battle droids titled Bug Two through Four. Specifically programmed to Solo's specifications, the quartet accompanied the couple and a team of four Jedi Knights in the freighter Millennium Falcon to the moon of Kr, which was the home of The Colony's Gorog nest of Killiks, which was working to make the rest of the Colony engage the Chiss in increasing acts of warfare.

While the Chiss and the Killiks of The Colony clashed above the planet Qoribu, which Kr orbited, the Millennium Falcon took Bug One and the other members of a team down a hangar shaft in Kr's ethmane jungles to the location of the Gorog nest to rescue Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and his wife Mara Jade, who were fighting Killiks in the nest. In the hangar at the end of the tunnel, Bug One and the other YVHs disembarked first from the freighter, before the team ventured into the nest's maze of tunnels. Before long, Bug One engaged the first of the Gorog they found in the tunnel.

However, the Gorog came at the rescue team in a relentless swarm despite their losses, and Bug One. along with Bug Two and Bug Three, used all their laminanium repair ingots to repair their armor. Seeing that only using blasters would not get them through the swarm to Skywalker and Jade, Solo authorized By Any Means status, permitting Bug One and the other YVHs to use their grenade launchers to fight the enemy, despite the fragility of the ice tunnels their were currently in. The use of the thermal detonators in YVH's launchers allowed the team to press forward at a much quicker pace.

However, at the head of the team, Bug One was met by a fierce counterattack from the Gorog at a corner in the tunnels, and the barrage from the electrobolt assault rifles used by the Killiks sent a disabled Bug One spinning into a wall, and an armed detonator from his launched floating near the team. Despite this, the Jedi of the team used the Force to send the detonator at the Killiks, and the rescue team went on to relieve the Skywalkers who were fighting farther ahead in the tunnels.

Appearances

 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King