K1 - 1R K1 - 1R was a military droid with a masculine persona who operated during the waning years of the Galactic Republic . While at one point he served a master , he later became independent and forged a career as a successful bounty hunter . During the Clone Wars , K1 - 1R joined forces with fellow bounty hunters Drokka and Shiana Trist to attempt to claim a large bounty that had been placed on the Heroes of Cularin , a group of freelance agents from the Cularin system . Trist and some droid drones controlled by K1 - 1R captured the agents inside a factory on the moon Nar Shaddaa , and the three hunters subsequently planned to freeze their captives in carbonite . However , when the agents broke free and attacked the bounty hunters , K1 - 1R was destroyed by blasterfire during the ensuing firefight . Biography . K1 - 1R was a modified military protocol droid with a masculine personality who operated during the latter years of the Galactic Republic . For a time , K1 - 1R served a master , but after his owner tasked him with a mission that was guaranteed to result in K1 - 1R ' s destruction , the droid ' s survival programming overrode his sense of loyalty . K1 - 1R subsequently abandoned his owner and became fully independent , forging a career for himself as an assassin droid and a bounty hunter . By the time of the Clone Wars , K1 - 1R ' s droid model was considered outdated . Despite his antiquated design , K1 - 1R became a bounty hunter of some renown and was able to charge high fees for his services . He also cultivated a number of allies among those who opposed the Republic . In about 20 BBY , a bioweapon attack on the planet Caarimon was averted by the Heroes of Cularin , a group of freelance agents from the Cularin system . The incident generated publicity for the agents and led to the rediscovery of Contract AA23 , a bounty for the capture of the agents that had been placed by the Metatheran Cartel envoy Velin Wir more than ten years earlier , and which had compounded over time to an accumulated value of 500 , 000 for the agents ' arrest . K1 - 1R learned of the bounty , and he teamed up with the Rodian bounty hunter Drokka and the Human assassin Shiana Trist to attempt to apprehend the agents and claim the prize . K1 - 1R acted as the trio ' s tactical leader ; they contrived to ensnare the agents during an errand that the agents were to make to the moon Nar Shaddaa to rendezvous with Korlana Toryn , the daughter of the influential Republic Senator Jasso Toryn . K1 - 1R appropriated a carbon - freezing chamber inside a Nar Shaddaa gas processing center , and the bounty hunters planned to ambush the Heroes of Cularin as they journeyed through a nearby factory with Toryn . The military droid sent six G - 2RD seeker droids to track the agents through the factory complex , and , after a brief fight , Trist and the seeker droids incapacitated Toryn and the agents , imprisoning them inside the carbon - freezing chamber . For twenty minutes , K1 - 1R , Drokka , and Trist debated what to do with Toryn , whom they had not planned to capture . At K1 - 1R ' s suggestion , the trio agreed to test the carbon - freezing facility on Toryn and recalibrate it , to make the machinery suitable for preserving living beings , then freeze the freelancers in carbonite . However , as K1 - 1R moved to lower Toryn into the chamber , the agents broke free and attacked the three bounty hunters . They incapacitated K1 - 1R , but he soon rebooted , his systems came back online , and engaged the agents in combat once more . Despite the bounty hunters ' efforts , the Heroes of Cularin emerged victorious , and blasterfire from the agents destroyed K1 - 1R and turned him into a pile of molten slag . Characteristics . K1 - 1R was a humanoid - type assassin droid with a sleek , featureless head in the shape of that of a Human . Instead of eyes , K1 - 1R had a single sensor scanner on his face that glowed a red color as he spoke . He was plastered with carbon scoring , and his body was covered in a patchwork of repairs from the many firefights in which he had participated . K1 - 1R was also fitted with a shield generator and a remote processor broadcast array , with which he remotely controlled droid drones and used them as extensions of his will . In addition , he had a vocabulator , which gave him an emotionless , mechanical - sounding voice . A killing machine who was designed to give outstanding performance in both field and command roles , K1 - 1R had a reputation for elaborate planning , and he considered all of the options that were open to him before committing himself to a particular course of action . Motivated solely by profit , he had an emotionless and callous demeanor and pursued targets in a precise , calm , and efficient manner . He had an unflinching will to complete tasks for which he was hired , and those who worked with him believed that the droid was almost happy when engaged in an assignment . To that end , he was prepared to fight dirty and to the death , and even to sacrifice children , if doing so aided the attainment of his goals . During his mission to capture the Heroes of Cularin , K1 - 1R was prepared to risk the life of Korlana Toryn and thereby incur the wrath of her Republic - allied father , because he believed that the Republic could not threaten him . However , in times of need K1 - 1R ' s survival subroutines overrode his primary programming and caused him to act in self - defense . He had strong leadership programming and , consequently , often assumed command of situations and gave orders to those around him , presuming that all of his directions would be obeyed . When such expectations were not met , K1 - 1R became slightly perplexed and froze for a few seconds before regaining his composure . He was fitted with a heuristic processor and a translator unit , and he also had 360 - degree vision and the ability to perceive infrared light . Equipment . K1 - 1R owned droid drones that he controlled remotely via his broadcast array , including over three dozen modified Arakyd G - 2RD seeker droids equipped with G - 20 Glop grenade s , and several modified D516 assassin droids . He used the droids to track targets and to assail his opponents in situations in which he was unable to become directly involved in combat ; he could control the droids from a distance of up to fifty kilometers . The battle droid armed himself with a variety of weapons , including a blaster carbine , a light repeating blaster , a flamethrower , and a vibro - ax . However , despite his use of such lethal devices , K1 - 1R preferred to use stun weapons to capture his targets alive , because most bounties promised a higher payoff for live capture . In addition , K1 - 1R was equipped with an encrypted comlink . Behind the scenes . K1 - 1R was created by Russell Foubert and Sean Yo , and appeared in " Contract AA23 " , a 2004 roleplaying adventure that formed part of the " Living Force " campaign . He later received an entry in the 2008 compendium " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " . In " Contract AA23 " , the players roleplay as K1 - 1R ' s targets , the Heroes of Cularin , and the choices made by the player - characters can influence the decisions and actions of K1 - 1R . Firstly , when the player - characters are attacked by Shiana Trist and K1 - 1R ' s seeker drones in the Nar Shaddaa factory , it is possible for K1 - 1R to send in additional seekers as reinforcements . Following the agents ' capture , if K1 - 1R is informed that Contract AA23 is to be canceled , he attempts to freeze the player - characters in carbonite quickly , so that he can claim the bounty before it is rescinded . It is also possible for K1 - 1R to succeed at freezing Korlana Toryn and for the carbon - freezing chamber to fail after encasing Toryn , in which case a power capacitor inside the facility explodes and showers K1 - 1R with ion plasma . Alternately , the player - characters can use the Force to destroy the carbon - freezing machinery and to smother K1 - 1R with plasma in a similar manner . Furthermore , it is possible for K1 - 1R to malfunction during the encounter , causing him to order his droid drones to attack all organic beings in the facility , including his bounty hunter allies . A number of different fates could befall K1 - 1R during " Contract AA23 " , but his canon fate was established by " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , which confirmed that he was destroyed by the Heroes of Cularin . In the roleplaying adventure , it was possible for him to escape , for him to be captured by the player - characters , or for him to destroyed , either by the player - characters or as a result of an ion rifle attack by the agents ' Caarite ally , Hohn Ryntz . The adventure also established that if K1 - 1R was destroyed , the player - characters had the option of looting parts from his remains and fitting them to their own droids .