T1-LB

"He's one of the new kind of droids that doesn't like to move."

- Gryph

T1-LB, nicknamed "Elbee" by Jedi Padawan Zayne Carrick, was a bulk-loader droid of the LB series used by Padawans during their trials on the rogue moon in the Taris system. The droid was classified as a "fifth-class drone".

Origin
Years before the Great Sith War, Kellenech Technologies constructed the T1 model droid series. T1-LB belonged to T1 subtype, the LB droid series, an acronym for “loader, bulk.” The droid’s large built, durability, and lack of a vocabulator emphasized the aim of function for heavy, menial tasks. Due to its hardy nature T1-LB carried out its occupation for decades until his latest function for the Jedi Tower and Enclave located on the planet Taris.

Witness to a Crime
In the year 3,964 BBY the five Jedi Masters stationed at the Enclave selected Elbee to accompany them to Taris’s moon in order the set up a portable magnetic shield to safeguard against the constant meteor strikes on the moon’s surface while the Masters waited for their Jedi Padawans to navigate through the hailstorm of meteor strikes in order to complete their final test before the Knighting Ceremony. In reality the five masters were also members of a secret cabal within the Jedi Order known as the Jedi Covenant, dedicated to a proactive stance against preventing the reappearance of the Jedi nemesis known as the Sith. Four of the masters formed the First WatchCircle, acting as the foremost seers of the Covenant. On the moon the four of them experienced a vision in which they witnessed their deaths and saw the galaxy in flames, along with a figure dressed in a red environment suit. At the time of the vision each of their Padawans wore a red suit while navigating by the Force to the camp leading the Masters to conclude that one of their own Padawans would bring about the return of the Sith and endanger the galaxy. Lucien Draay, the go between for the First WatchCircle and the Covenant, decided that they would strike down their Padawans in response to the vision when he discovered that Elbee had witnessed the entire scene. Draay ordered Elbee to walk off a cliff on the moon and used the Force to accelerate the droid down to the surface, breaking him apart on impact.

After fleeing from Taris during the events following the Padawan Massacre of Taris, Zayne Carrick and the crew of the Last Resort encountered T1-LB on the rogue moon. Zayne decided to examine the droid's memory in an attempt to find out why no less than five Jedi Masters were out to get him. During the course of the investigation, Zayne deduced that T1-LB could not have foolishly fallen off the cliff.

To that end, the droid was taken aboard the Last Resort and repaired by Camper, who gave him such additions as a hologram projector and a vocabulator. Then, as Zayne watched his Masters plot to kill their Padawans and Zayne, the final transmission showed Lucien Draay using the Force to push the droid off the cliff, because T1-LB was recording the masters' plot and they did not want any trace of their conversation to fall into the wrong hands.

The droid then deleted the hologram on his own because the memory of his "death" tangled up his motivation center. Later, when the Resort was released into orbit, the crew wanted to help Zayne and Elbee still had the Jedi Tower's schematics.



To trick a mining camp on Vanquo into thinking Mandalorians are attacking, Gryph tricked Elbee into thinking Lucien was inside the compound. When the Mandalorians attacked for real, Zayne convinced Elbee to carry Camper to the Resort, which was being stolen by a Mandalorian. Just as they got on the loading ramp, Elbee's right hand got damaged. During the small fight against the Mandalorian, Zayne told Elbee of his indirect breaking of his hand, enabling them to trap the Mandalorian.

During the rescue at Flashpoint Station, Elbee remained stationary when the Mandalorians came on board. Afterwards, Elbee dropped a bag of mining charges unnoticed, which Zayne placed in key spots around the camp.

When Zayne and Gryph parted ways with Jarael and Camper, T1-LB remained with the latter to help in any way, including loading the new hyperdrive parts. When they left Ralltiir, an HK-24 unit comes out of a box to kidnap Camper. Elbee tries to stop it but the insulting droid disables him. Just HK-24 was about to terminate Jarael, Rohlan, who had sneaked aboard the Last Resort since Flashpoint, blasted the assassin droid. With Camper's deteriorating health, Jarael had no choice but to bring the Resort to Arkania to discreetly get help. But she is captured and Adascorp, the "Company" Camper has been running from. Everyone is taken aboard the Arkanian Legacy, where they are treated as "guests".

When another number of guests came aboard the Legacy to make a bid on a number of space monster known as exogorths which soon escalated into a fight. ELbee noticed that the Resort was taking off, used by Camper to take the exogorths to Wild Space. Elbee pleaded Camper not to go, as they are friends. Elbee then got on the Moomo Williwaw, where he remained stationary there.

Behind the scenes
On his website, John Jackson Miller has stated that LB is loosely based on Herman Melville's character Bartleby the Scrivener.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 0: Crossroads
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 4: Commencement, Part 4
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 5: Commencement, Part 5
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 6: Commencement, Part 6
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Flashpoint
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Reunion
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Days of Fear
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Nights of Anger
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 21: Daze of Hate, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 23: Knights of Suffering, Part 2
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 31: Turnabout
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 38: Faithful Execution

Notes and references
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