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K-3PO, or Kay-Threepio, was a white, older model 3PO-series protocol droid originally owned by Alliance to Restore the Republic starfighter pilot Arhul Narra. Narra maintained detailed records of his service with the Alliance, which often included top-secret data that he kept only in shielded files, within K-3PO. As K-3PO accumulated thousands of files over the years, the military tactics contained within began to seep into his comprehension circuits. Consequently, K-3PO became a tactical expert, and so Narra refrained from performing a memory wipe on his droid, whose military value increased every day. After an off-hand remark K-3PO made to Narra during the Battle of Ton-Falk prior to the Battle of Yavin revealed a simple tactic the Alliance exploited to defeat a sizable Imperial force, K-3PO became one of the few droids "recognized" by Alliance High Command. K-3PO served as the coordinator of all droids in High Command at the Alliance headquarters on Yavin 4, Thila, and finally Hoth, where he was placed in charge of the Echo Base droid pool. Although K-3PO was destroyed during the Battle of Hoth, his salvaged memory would later serve Rogue Squadron through the unit's protocol droid, M-3PO.