T7-O1

T7-O1, known affectionately as Teeseven, was a T7 astromech droid active during the Great Galactic War, the Cold War, and the Second Great Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. Constructed in 3,793 BBY, T7 had not undergone a memory wipe by the time of the Cold War giving him a strong personality with some arrogant quirks and memories of all of the partners he had worked with for the last 150 years. T7 was known for a fierce independent streak and his candid attitude, and would put himself in danger if he could save his more fragile organic allies. T7-O1 was originally created as a repair and pilot droid, but his extensive experience gave him abilities that could be used in combat. Among his many experiences, T7-O1 survived the destruction of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and joined up with Jedi Knight Aryn Leneer and her smuggler acquaintance Zeerid Korr on their mission to hunt down Darth Malgus, the Sith Lord responsible for the Temple's destruction. During his long career, T7-O1 passed through the hands of many owners, including Captain Nico Okarr, Jedi Master Ven Zallow, and the Hero of Tython.

During the droid's tenure with the Hero of Tython, T7-O1 helped the Jedi in resolving many crises across several planets, such as an attempt by a fallen Jedi to destroy the Order using the Flesh Raider natives of Tython and a plot by the Sith Lord Darth Angral to assault the Galactic Republic using stolen superweapons such as the Desolator. T7-O1's service with the Hero of Tython eventually culminated in a plan to capture or assassinate the Sith Emperor himself, and the droid accompanied the Hero of Tython during an assault on the Sith capitol of Dromund Kaas. The two managed to gain entry to the Emperor's throne room and slew one of the Emperor's avatars in a fierce confrontation. Afterwards, T7-O1 and the rest of the Hero of Tython's companions were awarded the Cross of Glory for their pivotal role in ending the threat of the Sith Empire.

Great Galactic War
"T7! Prep the ion cannons!"

- Nico Okarr to T7-O1

A T7-series astromech droid, T7-O1 was constructed in approximately 3,793 BBY as a standard factory-spec astromech. Over the next 100 years, T7 would pass from master to master, whom the droid referred to as "partners". Unlike many other droids, T7 never underwent regular memory wipes, leading the droid to develop a personality and preserving the memories of all of T7's partners.

T7 worked with a total of eight partners before teaming up with the smuggler Nico Okarr sometime before 3,681 BBY, and the droid served as the human's mechanic and aide on his ship. While attempting to smuggle Sith artifacts off the planet, Okarr and T7 were captured by Republic forces over the Sith homeworld of Korriban, and the Republic arrested Okarr and impounded the smuggler's ship with T7 aboard the Republic space station in the Horuset system. However, Okarr's transfer to a holding cell was interrupted by the arrival of the Sith Empire. A massive fleet arrived in-system and launched an offensive against the station, intending to retake their homeworld. As the smuggler's ship was the only one fast enough to escape the Sith fighters, Jedi Knight Satele Shan and her master decided to use it to escape in order to warn the Republic. T7-O1 had been on-board the ship performing maintenance as the hangar came under assault by Sith forces, and the smuggler instructed him to prepare the ship's weapons in preparation for their escape. The smuggler and his passengers, including T7-O1, were ultimately able to escape their pursuers and bring word to the Republic of the oncoming Sith threat.

Leaving Okarr's service not long after Korriban, T7-O1 worked with the slaver Shafu for a time until the Rodian was captured by Jedi Master Ven Zallow. Instead of turning the slaver over to the authorities, Zallow convinced Shafu to turn over a new leaf and made him a confidential informant for the Order.

Not long afterwards, T7-O1 began to work for Senator Oodora of Manaan as a legislation analyst, but was promoted after his first year and eventually became the Senator's campaign manager and speech writer. The astromech would serve the Senator faithfully for two decades, and during this time he was employed by the Republic Strategic Information Service for a single mission. T7 was assigned to protect a Muun ambassador from the GenoHaradan, and was successfully able to detect the assassin in the crowd and discharge a stun bolt. However, the assassin escaped and the ambassador retired in fear, leaving T7 depressed and believing that he never truly completed his mission.

Serving the Jedi


When Senator Oodora retired not long before the end of the Great Galactic War, the droid found a new partner in Master Ven Zallow and began working in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. While serving Zallow, T7-O1 was also a witness to the end of the Great Galactic War and was present during the Sacking of Coruscant led by Sith Lord Darth Malgus. When Darth Malgus led the Sith assault on the Jedi Temple, Zallow ordered T7-O1 to stay hidden and record the battle, in case the Jedi lost the day. T7 obeyed the order, hiding in a remote corner of the hall as Zallow engaged the Sith forces, but emerged briefly to warn the Jedi Master that Darth Malgus was approaching. Retreating back into hiding, T7 watched as Zallow fought and was slain by Malgus, and T7 was forced to find cover as the Temple was destroyed by the Sith.

T7-O1 managed to survive the destruction of the Temple by fleeing to secret underground passages which led to The Works, although the droid received a significant amount of damage. T7-O1 later returned to the Temple ruins in hopes of finding survivors, but was only able to recover Zallow's lightsaber. Upon returning to the secret passage, the droid encountered Ven Zallow's Padawan, Aryn Leneer and her companion Zeerid Korr. Leneer was investigating the circumstances of her Master's death, and was attempting to enter the Temple in order to access the security records. T7-O1 helped her reach the security recordings and played them back for her, and she learned that Darth Malgus had slain Zallow. The droid subsequently accompanied Leneer as she set out to avenge her Master's death. Leneer eventually gave up her pursuit for revenge after a failed attempt to assassinate Darth Malgus and she settled down on Dantooine with Korr. T7-O1 was last seen in her possession, but did not accompany her to Dantooine, and the droid eventually returned to serve the Jedi.

Travels with the Hero of Tython
When the Jedi Order left Coruscant, T7-O1 accompanied them to the Order's homeworld of Tython. There, he served as a reconnaissance droid for the Order, until he was captured by members of a violent native species of Tython during an upsurge of aggressive activity and locked inside a weapons cache. When the apprentice of Jedi Master Orgus Din raided the weapons cache for the Twi'lek Pilgrims of Kalikori Village, the Padawan freed T7 and removed the restraining bolt that the Flesh Raiders had attached to the droid. In thanks, T7 showed the Jedi the recording it had secretly made while pretending to be deactivated: a hooded figure, giving orders to the Dark Jedi Callef &mdash;whom the Padawan had defeated earlier &mdash;and the Flesh Raiders. Callef referred to the figure as his master, and the pair seemed determined to destroy the Jedi Order.

Having discovered the source of the Flesh Raiders' sudden increase in violence, the Padawan and the other Jedi set out to stop Bengel Morr and prevent further casualties. T7's later accompanied the Padawan in rescuing Orgus Din after the latter was lured into a trap and captured by Bengel Morr. Morr revealed himself as Orgus Din's former apprentice and was assumed to have been killed during the Sacking of Coruscant, and his rage at his perceived weakness of the Jedi left him seeking vengeance on the Order. Before he could slay Orgus Din, the Padawan and T7 intervened, defeating Morr and saving the Jedi Master. The Padawan was then elevated to the rank of Knight for the Jedi's role in ending the Flesh Raider threat, and T7 looked on as the newly promoted Knight constructed their first lightsaber. When the Knight was then dispatched to the capital of Coruscant to aid Jedi Master Bela Kiwiiks and her Padawan in dealing with a new threat, T7-O1 decided to remain with the Knight as the droid felt they were a formidable team.

On Coruscant, T7-O1, the Knight and Orgus Din were brought up to speed on the situation by Master Kiwiiks. They were introduced to Republic scientist Eli Tarnis and General Var Suthra, who informed them that the plans for a Republic superweapon known as the Planet Prison had been stolen, and the Jedi had been called in to help retrieve them. Working with Kira Carsen and Agent Galen of the Republic Strategic Information Service, T7-O1 and the Knight tracked the stolen plans first to a Rodian slicer then to the Black Sun criminial syndicate. The mission then became more complicated as the two learned that Tarnis had been kidnapped by Black Sun. After one failed attempt to rescue Tarnis, T7-O1 and the Knight were informed by General Suthra that the stolen plans had also contained information about every Republic superweapon in development, not just the Planet Prison. Masters Din and Kiwiiks, as well as Agent Galen then departed Coruscant to secure the sites of the compromised superweapons while the Knight and T7-O1 launched an assault on the headquarters of Black Sun in order to rescue Tarnis.

With the aid of the Coruscant Security Force, T7-O1 and the Knight fought their way to the Black Sun command center, where they found the Black Sun leader in a holocall with Tarnis, who revealed himself to be a Sith Lord. After defeating Salarr, T7-O1 and the Knight were told by Carsen that Tarnis had stolen the Planet Prison prototype and intended to use it on Coruscant. The three then pursued the Sith Lord first to the Justicars' Sector, where they found the murdered engineering team behind the Planet Prison, then to the ruins of the Jedi Temple, where they found Tarnis in a call with four Sith Lords, including his father, Darth Angral. Tarnis was slain by the Knight in combat and the activation of the Planet Prison was narrowly averted. Infuriated by his son's death, Angral promised to have vengeance on the Republic and the Knight in particular.

Upon reporting in to General Suthra and Grand Master Satele Shan, the Knight was told that Din, Kiwiiks and Galen had all failed to report in, and General Suthra feared that Angral had already seized control of the superweapons. The general then gave the Knight a Defender-class light corvette for use as their personal starship as well as the location of one of Angral's bases on the planet of Ord Mantell, and asked the Knight to look into it. With Kira Carsen in tow as the Knight's new Padawan, the group then departed Coruscant for Ord Mantell. Upon arriving on Ord Mantell, T7-O1 and the Knight made their way to Angral's hidden base and fought their way into the command center of the facility. With the base's defenders dealt with, T7-O1 accessed the facility's databanks and found files indicating that Angral was planning to combine aspects of several Republic superweapon programs into a single project, which was codenamed the "Desolator." The files additionally contained intelligence indicating that Angral had sent agents to various worlds to where Republic superweapons were under development.

With this information in hand, T7-O1 continued to accompany the Knight as they traveled to the worlds of Taris, Nar Shaddaa, Tatooine and Alderaan in order to chase down Angral's agents and secure the superweapons. As a result of these travels the Knight and his companions rescued Doctor Nasan Godera , a former Republic weapons designer and destroyed the prototypes of the Power Guard Project, the Shock Drum and the Death Mark , each of which was a Republic superweapon seized by Angral's forces, rescuing Agent Galen and Masters Kiwiiks and Din in the process. Unfortunately the Knight and his companions learned from General Var Suthra that Angral had already succeeded in combining the superweapons technology into the Desolator, which he had mounted on his flagship. The Knight and his companions pursued Angral to the Republic agriworld Uphrades but arrived to find that the world had already been devastated by Angral's superweapon.

Behind the scenes
T7-O1 is a companion character for the Jedi Knight class of Star Wars: The Old Republic, a MMORPG released by BioWare on December 20, 2011. He first appeared in the Deceived cinematic trailer for the game, briefly warning Ven Zallow of the approach of Darth Malgus, and also appears in the related novel Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived, which is set directly following the trailer. T7 would also appear in the third and final trailer for the game, Return, in the service of Nico Okarr.

Like all other pages on the site, T7-O1's HoloNet page on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic website features three phrases written in Aurebesh. The first, "accidental slaver", refers to T7-O1's work with the slaver Shahtfu before the Rodian's change of heart, and the second, "Flesh Raider collectable", is an allusion to how T7-O1 is captured by Flesh Raiders just before the player encounters him in the mission "High-Tech Savages". The last phrase, "The Exploding Starships Conspiracy", refers to the work of the bounty hunter Terrin Sandafar, who killed Shafu and the Alderaanian noble Eckhorn Baliss by setting their ships to explode at the orders of Senator Verre Sydia's husband.

T7-O1 also appears as a minifigure in a LEGO set; namely 9497 Republic Striker Starfighter, a set composed of a Talon-class Republic starfighter as well as a Republic trooper and Satele Shan as she appears in the Hope cinematic trailer.

Appearances

 * Return
 * Deceived
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic