Jabba's interpreter

"We have been without an interpreter since our master got angry with our last protocol droid and disintegrated him."

- EV-9D9, to C-3PO

A protocol droid with masculine programming served as the interpreter of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt until he angered his master and was disintegrated, reducing the droid to a pile of scrap. EV-9D9, the supervisor of Jabba's Palace's droid pool, later told C-3PO, another protocol droid who was to serve as Jabba's new interpreter, the droid's fate, and gestured towards the droid's remains, which were dumped near the door of a furnace in her torture chamber, when she had finished the tale.

Behind the scenes
"Disintegrated?"

- C-3PO, after learning of his predecessor's gruesome demise

This protocol droid was first mentioned in Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Pieces of him later appeared in Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!, a young readers novelization of Return of the Jedi written by Tom Angleberger, which was released on September 22, 2015.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
 * Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side!