Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . was a private technological bounty hunting company owned and operated by the slicer Gaib , along with his droid TK - 0 , which specialized in the acquisition of information and technology for its clients . The company operated throughout and after the galaxy - spanning Clone Wars , during which several employers hired the company ' s various services , among them the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure , members of the Mandalorian Skirata clan , and even the Imperial Army , following the rise of the Galactic Empire . Organization . Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . was a bounty hunter organization that was formed by two individuals : a male Human slicer by the name of Gaib , and a droid known as TK - 0 , which resembled a taller , armored version of a standard R2 - series astromech droid . Considered " tech - hunters " , the company focused on the acquisition of information and technology for its clients , and specialized in locating more obscure data and hard - to - source hardware . TK - 0 was looked upon for providing computing power , data correlation , and accessing local networks . At the same time , Gaib was responsible for logistics , TK - 0 ' s maintenance , and for directing the droid ' s searches . History . In 22 BBY , following the kidnapping of the young Huttlet Rotta from his home on Tatooine , the services of Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . were called upon by the criminal empire of Rotta ' s father , Jabba Desilijic Tiure , in order to locate the Hutt ' s missing son . Utilizing air traffic control records , along with comlink relay records , and medical database access records , Gaib and TK - 0 were able to determine that the pilot of a ship leaving Tatooine around the time of the abduction had accessed the Galactic All - Species Self - Help Database , requesting information on Hutt healthcare and sickness . That same ship later landed on the planet Teth , in Wild Space . The two contractors reported to Jabba ' s palace on Tatooine with their findings , leading the Hutt crime lord to dispatch a team of bounty hunters to Teth . Gaib and TK - 0 were subsequently paid for their services , though Jabba also offered the two a substantial retainer ' s fee should they make themselves available to him whenever he needed , stating that the alternative should they choose not to , was death . The pair accepted , and though the mercenaries sent out by Jabba failed to retrieve young Rotta from Teth , the Huttlet was ultimately rescued and returned to Jabba by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his new Padawan Ahsoka Tano . A year later , in 21 BBY , Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . was contracted by the Null - class Advanced Recon Commandos N - 7 and N - 11 — also known as " Mereel " and " Ordo " , respectively — on behalf of the clones ' adoptive father , Kal Skirata . Mereel had originally contacted the bounty hunting duo as a means of acquiring hardware upgrades for Skirata ' s recently purchased submersible , " Aay ' han " . He then put the company to work tracking shipments of laboratory equipment being illegally transported to circumvent the Republic Senate ' s ban on commercial cloning , as part of Skirata ' s search for the rogue Kaminoan scientist Ko Sai . The information and leads gathered by Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . led Mereel and Skirata to Dorumaa , the moon of Almas in the Cularin system , where they found and captured Ko Sai . The two technological bounty hunters were paid one hundred thousand credits for their equipment and informational services . Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . would again find itself in the employ of Kal Skirata and his clan in the year 19 BBY , in the weeks following the transformation of the Galactic Republic into the new Galactic Empire . During the events of the night Order 66 had been issued by then - Chancellor Palpatine , the clone troopers and commandos associated with Clan Skirata had attempted to all desert the Grand Army of the Republic for Mandalore , when unfortunate circumstances left the commandos Darman and Niner behind on Coruscant . In payment of a favor owed to Mereel , Gaib secured a contract for service work with the Imperial Army , during which he was able to spy on the Imperial Commando Special Unit of the 501st Legion , and therein determine the status of both commandos . For additional payment , TK - 0 infiltrated the 501st Legion headquarters and modifed the helmets of both Darman and Niner to allow for secure communication between the two Imperial commandos and Clan Skirata ' s base of operations on Mandalore . When the Skirata clan decided to extract Niner and Darman , Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . was called upon to acquire four sets of Imperial stormtrooper armor to allow the clan ' s clone members to infiltrate the 501st ; Gaib and TK - 0 delivering a full ten sets of stormtrooper armor into the clan ' s custody , in case their employers should have need of them in the future . Having been awarded an Imperial contract for servicing suit systems , the two tech - hunters ' found themselves with the ability to mark suits of armor they deemed to be defective to be returned to the manufacturer . The incredibly large scale of Imperial Army operations , however , allowed for a lack of oversight that enabled the bounty hunter pair to simply keep what suits they marked as defective for later sale . Clan Skirata ' s plans to rescue their left - behind comrades proved ultimately unsuccessful , although Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . was handsomely paid with a substantial stack of credit chips . TK - 0 also stated that it was billing the Empire two hundred credits for every servodriver they needed for their armor servicing contract . Behind the scenes . Both Gaib and TK - 0 first appeared in the novel " " by author Karen Traviss , the third book in the " Republic " and " Imperial Commando " series . They were later given a brief role in Traviss ' novelization of the 2008 film , but it was only upon the release of " " that their tech - hunter company was finally given the name " Gaib & TK - 0 Inc . " during the third chapter ' s epigraph .