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- "This control box will pop you out into the open!"
- ―Luke Skywalker
The droid caller,[4] also referred to as a caller,[5] control box, control device[6] or owner, was a handheld transmitter device that was used to summon a droid or activate its restraining bolt.[7]
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.[7]
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.[2]
Jaybo Hood on Iego possessed a reprogrammed droid caller which he could use to control battle droids.[8]
Appearances[]
- Adventures in Hyperspace: Shinbone Showdown
"Abregado-Rae Intrigue" — No Disintegrations- "Spare Parts" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 11 (reprinted in Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club)
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- Star Wars: A New Hope novelization (and unabridged audiobook) (First appearance, in book)
- Star Wars (1977) 1 (recolorized in Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... Volume 1: Doomworld and Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope)
- Star Wars: Assault Team
- A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker (and audiobook)
Non-canon appearances[]
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ Star Wars (1977) 1
- ↑
"May The Facts Be With You: Part Two: #51-100" — Star Wars Insider 95
- ↑ Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novel
- ↑ The Star Wars Sourcebook
- ↑ 7.0 7.1
restraining bolt in the Databank (original site is defunct)
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia