- "This control box will pop you out into the open!"
- ―Luke Skywalker
The caller,[1] also referred to as a droid caller, control box, control device[2] or owner, was a handheld transmitter device that was used to summon a droid or activate its restraining bolt.[3]
Callers were designed with three basic commands: "COME" called a droid forward, "STOP" forced it to halt, and "ORDERS" caused it to enact any commands, within the droid's operating parameters, given verbally.[3]
The Jawas of Tatooine often used callers to control their droids before selling them. As a seven-year-old child, Luke Skywalker created a makeshift droid caller in order to stargaze without his aunt and uncle's droids detecting him. It was confiscated when Owen Lars discovered him. Both Luke Skywalker and Han Solo carried callers around 0 BBY. Luke used his caller to bring C-3PO out of hiding after R2-D2 departed to find Obi-Wan Kenobi.[4]
Jaybo Hood on Iego possessed a reprogrammed droid caller which he could use to control battle droids.[5]
Appearances
- Adventures in Hyperspace: Shinbone Showdown
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (novel) (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars 1
- Star Wars: Assault Team
- Star Wars: Yoda Stories
"Spare Parts" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 11- "Abregado-Rae Intrigue" — No Disintegrations
Sources
- A Guide to the Star Wars Universe
- The Star Wars Sourcebook (as control device)
- Star Wars Campaign Pack (as Control Device)
- Cracken's Rebel Field Guide (as owner)
- Star Wars Gamemaster Kit (as Restraining Bolt Owner)
- Galaxy Guide 7: Mos Eisley (as hand controller)
- Cracken's Rebel Operatives (as restraining bolt deactivator)
- Star Wars Sourcebook, Second Edition (as control device)
- Star Wars Customizable Card Game — Premiere Limited (Card: Caller) (backup link)
- Star Wars Gamemaster Screen, Revised
- Cynabar's Fantastic Technology: Droids
- Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary (as droid caller)
- A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
- The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary (As "droid caller")
- "May The Facts Be With You: Part Two: #51-100" — Star Wars Insider 95 (As "droid caller")
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
- restraining bolt in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
