Unidentified Imperial communications droid An Imperial communications droid , sometimes called " comm droid " by his companions , played a significant role in the life of Ania Solo and her hunt for the Sith Darth Wredd in the aftermath of the second Imperial Civil War . Originally assigned to the Imperial Knight Yalta Val , the comm droid was severely damaged when Val was ambushed in the Surd Nebula , and he ended up as scrap in Solo ' s junkyard . The droid retrieved Val ' s lightsaber before fleeing from the nebula , however , and Solo ' s discovery of the weapon set a tumultuous series of events into motion . The droid soon afterward became loyal to Imperial Knight Jao Assam , and stuck by his " de facto " master ' s side while Assam and Solo tracked down Wredd . Biography . Going Solo . In the year 138 ABY , an Imperial communications droid with masculine programming served the Galactic Federation Triumvirate . While on a mission to the Carreras system with the Imperial Knight Yalta Val , the comm droid was sent out into the Surd Nebula to act as a beacon due the nebula ' s blocking of communications . When Val ' s shuttle crashed onto the planet Mala , the Knight was ambushed by a Sith master and apprentice and taken prisoner . The comm droid checked for other survivors , found none , and then retrieved Val ' s lightsaber . While rocketing away from the planet on a course for the Triumvirate ' s home base of Coruscant , the droid was heavily damaged by tiny particles from the nebula . He made it only as far as the Carreras system , where he ended up in the junkyard of one Ania Solo . One week later , Solo discovered the droid and brought him to her friend Sauk on a Carreras Minor ice mining platform , where the lightsaber was uncovered from the droid ' s interior . Their attempts to sell the weapon led to a run - in with the law , and their successful escape in Solo ' s ship only ended up with them attacked by the Sith apprentice — Darth Wredd — at Solo ' s junkyard . The IG - series droid AG - 37 ferried Solo and Saul offworld in his freighter , where Sauk , devastated at finding himself a refugee and a criminal , tinkered with the comm droid and uncovered a hologram of Yalta Val dueling the Sith Master . On AG - 37 ' s request , the comm droid enhanced the image of Val ' s lightsaber , and the group realized that it was the same weapon as the one they possessed . A flight from a sudden blockade of Carreras starfighter s led the freighter to Carreras Minor ' s surface , where Sauk was finally able to stabilize the comm droid ' s power source . When the Imperial Knight Jao Assam , who was searching for his wayward comrade , showed up and saved the group from a tentacled serpent , the now - functional comm droid flew out of the ship on his repulsorlifts and played the hologram for the newcomer . He then provided the coordinates for the planet Mala , but the group ' s rescue attempt was cut short when they were caught in the tractor beam of a Shifalan patrol ship . The Shifala ns were following the orders of Darth Wredd , who was posing as Yalta Val , and Solo ' s group were all thrown into holding cells in the Carreras G51 communications array . The comm droid was the lone exception , as he managed to hide in a floor compartment aboard the freighter ; when the coast was clear , he escaped into the hangar where the freighter had been stored . Solo and her companions were freed by the Shifalan governor Biala , who was tired of " Yalta Val " undermining her authority , but Wredd attacked the group in the hangar and severely injured most of them . Jao Assam in particular was knocked out of the hangar and into the vacuum of space , but the comm droid followed , placing a breath mask onto the Imperial Knight ' s face and keeping him alive . Solo , having emerged from the battle relatively unscathed , hopped into Assam ' s starfighter and followed the departing Wredd to Mala , where she freed Yalta Val from his chains . Wredd was in the midst of using the communications array to broadcast his declaration of an insurgency against both the Triumvirate and the One Sith , but Solo ' s intervention stopped him from killing Val in front of the galaxy , and the two Force users dueled briefly before the Sith fled . Solo , meanwhile , returned to the array and brought her injured comrades aboard AG - 37 ' s freighter ; she then returned to Mala and picked up Val in time to save him from the array , which Wredd had rigged to crash onto the planet ' s surface . As the freighter made its way out of the system , its crew came across Assam and the comm droid and brought them aboard . On the hunt . Assam rested aboard the freighter , but the damaged vessel was unable to make lightspeed . The comm droid repeatedly broadcasted a distress signal , which was eventually picked up by the " Animus " , a Triumvirate - aligned Star Destroyer . The Destroyer rescued the freighter and began to make its way to Coruscant , and the comm droid hovered through its corridors , eventually finding Assam recovering in a bacta tank . At that moment , Assam experienced a Force vision of Darth Wredd striking down his Empress , Marasiah Fel , and he resolved to hunt for the wayward Sith despite explicit orders to the contrary from Her Imperial Majesty . Sauk and AG - 37 departed from Solo ' s company aboard the latter ' s repaired freighter , but Solo , Assam , and the comm droid took a shuttle and began their hunt , leaving with the reluctant blessing of Yalta Val . Their first stop was the planet Nalyd , where a criminal database had revealed that Dieben , a minion of Wredd ' s , had recently been extradited . From Nalyd , the trail led to Dac , a water world whose oceans had been poisoned during the recent Imperial Civil War . In the system , the shuttle was attacked and taken apart by pirates , which caused its barely - functioning cockpit to make a crash landing inside the Mon Calamari Shipyards that orbited the dead world . After disposing of the pirates who boarded the shuttle , Solo and Assam began to explore the shipyards , with the comm droid in tow . When they found that the pirates were building a fleet using Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees as slave labor , the comm droid was ordered by Assam to send a message to Coruscant using Imperial encryption . The group was then discovered by the slaving ring ' s leader , the Sith Lord Darth Luft . The Sith threw Solo , Assam , the Mon Calamari Luen , and the Quarren Tikin into an escape pod , and the comm droid quickly followed his friends inside before the pod was launched into the poisoned oceans of Dac . As the pod sank , the comm droid reconfigured his antenna to continually broadcast the depth of the pod . The signal was picked up by AG - 37 and Sauk , who were nearby , and the two were able to pilot their freighter into Dac ' s oceans and recover the escape pod with a harpoon and tow cable . As the reunited group discussed their plans in a shipyard hangar , Tikin stormed back to his post rather than get involved . Assam resolved to take on Luft in order to locate Wredd , even as the others departed in the freighter to find reinforcements . The comm droid steadfastly followed Assam , but when Tikin betrayed their plot to Luft , Assam and the droid were discovered and forced to dodge a hail of blaster bolts . Tikin was killed by Luft despite his attempt to cooperate with the Sith , and as Assam confronted Luft , the furious Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves began to rise up against their captors . Meanwhile , a Triumvirate fleet led by Admiral Gar Stazi and Yalta Val — who had received the comm droid ' s message — arrived in - system and attacked the pirates . As Stazi flooded the shipyards with water from a tanker , the comm droid plotted an escape and made his way to a hatch , which he opened by slicing into its controls . The water crystallized into an ice plume as it escaped into space with him , but the droid avoided being frozen and stayed close to the shipyards ' exterior as the battle raged . After receiving a request from Solo , he closed the doors to Bay 519C just in time to save her and a group of refugees from being sucked into space . The death of Darth Luft at Assam ' s hands and the subduing of the pirates by Val ' s Imperial Knights and seatroopers ended the battle , and Solo ' s group re - embarked on their hunt for Darth Wredd . Their vehicle was the freighter of AG - 37 , who had decided that hunting for Wredd was the right thing to do . In the ship ' s cockpit , a message came through for Assam , and he , along with Solo , Sauk , AG - 37 , and the comm droid watched as a hologram of their target appeared . The renegade Sith had been systematically murdering members of the One Sith in an attempt to bring back the traditional Sith Rule of Two , and he thanked Assam for taking out Luft and helping further his ultimate goals . A sudden snatch . During their hunt , the makeshift crew of AG - 37 ' s freighter found delivery work as part of their captain ' s shipping business . Early in the year 139 ABY , The comm droid was hovering outside of the ship ' s bridge as AG - 37 piloted them through a precarious minefield . AG - 37 ' s success allowed them to land at Lasgo Port on their target planet and deliver their goods , but to everyone ' s surprise , the group discovered a " Wanted " poster of Solo on the surface . Back in space , a micro - meteor penetrated the freighter ' s shields , which prompted Sauk to send the comm droid out into space to check on the damage . As the droid repaired the puncture , he noticed a commotion coming from a nearby derelict ship and proceeded to investigate — with the rest of his crew watching via his live camera , the comm droid peered into the derelict ' s transparisteel panels and saw survivors . AG - 37 ' s crew immediately docked with the ship and provided it with atmosphere . One of the survivors was Ramid , and old friend of Solo ' s , but Ramid and his crew quickly kidnapped Solo and detached from AG - 37 ' s freighter . After detonating a mine that damaged AG - 37 ' s ship , Ramid escaped into hyperspace . AG - 37 , Sauk , and Assam were able to repair the freighter and begin searching for Solo , and they were eventually able to locate Ramid ' s ship on a planet that sometimes rained glass . A search of the downed vessel revealed only corpses , none of them Solo ' s or Ramid ' s , and a sudden glass storm forced Sauk and Assam to seek refuge back in the freighter . AG - 37 , however , set out in the glass rain to locate their quarry . While his biological friends waited , the comm droid received a transmission from Yalta Val on Coruscant and played it for them . Val revealed that Solo was innocent of the crime for which she was being framed — the murder of Imperial Knight Teemen Alton — as Alton had been killed by someone with a prosthetic hand . When AG - 37 located Solo at the planet ' s only outpost , Sauk and Assam brought the freighter there , and Assam dismounted . Sauk was forced to take the ship above the clouds , however , as acid rain began to fall . . The comm droid remained aboard AG - 37 ' s freighter while Jao Assam ventured into the settlement to rescue Ania Solo . There , Jao found that Ramid had been killed and that Ania was being attacked by an unidentified masked bounty hunter , the real killer of the Imperial Knight whom Ania was alleged to have murdered . While Jao and Ania succeeded in killing the bounty hunter following a prolonged fight , Ania was subsequently arrested by a force of Trandoshan stormtroopers and brought back to Coruscant to face trial . However , Master Val and Jao Assam succeeded in clearing Ania ' s name by presenting evidence that Ania was not the real killer and that real killer , the bounty hunter , had a prosthetic hand . Following Ania ' s acquittal , the comm droid accompanied Sauk and AG - 37 when they were reunited with Ania . However , Jao was arrested and imprisoned for the crime of deserting the Imperial Knights . Showdown with the Sith . Following Ania Solo ' s kidnapping and rescue , the rogue Sith Darth Wredd resurfaced and kidnapped Jao Assam . The two of them then escaped Coruscant and headed for parts unknown . Galactic Empress Marasiah Fel then dispatched Ania , Sauk , AG - 37 , and a platoon of Trandoshan stormtroopers to rescue Jao Assam . The comm droid accompanied Ania and her companions on this mission to rescue Jao . Their quest took them to the floating world of Mala . Mala had been the former home world of Darth Wredd prior to its destruction towards the end of the Second Imperial Civil War . The One Sith had tested a bioweapon on the planet , destroying all life on Mala and knocking the planet from its orbit . Darth Wredd was the sole survivor and was forced to join the One Sith but harbored a desire for vengeance against the Sith . After killing his master , Wredd had embarked on a one - man insurgency against the One Sith . He also intended to recruit Jao as his apprentice and to bring him over to the dark side of the Force . Darth Wredd planned to lure the One Sith and Empress Fel to Mala where he intended to exact revenge against the Sith and to kill the Empress . Wredd tricked Jao into transmitting Mala ' s coordinates to Ania ' s rescue party , the One Sith , and Empress Fel . As planned , Ania and company discovered Mala and rescued Jao . During the rescue mission , the comm droid served as a torch light for the rescue party . The comm droid was also present during a fierce battle between Ania ' s rescue mission and a large One Sith army . Ania ' s mission was later reinforced by an army of Imperial Knights led by the Empress herself . The Imperial Knights succeeded in wiping out the One Sith army , thus playing into Darth Wredd ' s hands . Darth Wredd then attempted to assassinate Empress Fel but was thwarted and killed by Jao and Ania . The comm droid was present at the death of Darth Wredd and the reunion between Jao and Master Val . Following Jao ' s pardon , the Imperial Knight was allowed to resign from his Order and join Ania , Sauk , and AG - 37 . The comm droid accompanied Jao and Ania ' s company on their travels throughout the galaxy . Characteristics . The Imperial communications droid , sometimes simply called " comm droid " by his companions , was small and spherical , not much bigger than the head of an average Human . He hovered on repulsorlifts and was also equipped with sublight drives that enabled him to fly through the vacuum of space . As a communications droid , he could send and receive signals that could travel long distances , and he possessed both a video camera and a holoprojector , each of which could both record and play . The comm droid could also slice into electronic systems . Mostly light gray in color but with some green on his exterior , the droid also had a single blue photoreceptor . A large fin extended from the top of his frame , and four thin limbs protruded below , as did three electric lights . An additional limb could extend from the front of his frame that could be used to manipulate tools . Although he was described using masculine pronouns by some , at least one other droid referred to him as " it . " Although originally assigned to Yalta Val , and programmed to send messages that bore Val ' s personal stamp , the comm droid became quickly loyal to Jao Assam during the Carreras Incident . AG - 37 posited that the droid believed Assam had come to Carreras just to rescue him , and that the droid consequently felt he owed a debt of gratitude to the Imperial Knight . The droid saved Assam from death by exposure to deep space , and he continued to follow Assam in the aftermath of Carreras , joining him on his hunt for Darth Wredd and staying aboard the Mon Calamari Shipyards with Assam after all of their friends had fled the yards to find reinforcements . The droid also voluntarily entered an escape pod with Assam that was bound for the poisoned oceans of Dac , and from there broadcast a signal that ultimately led to the Imperial Knight ' s salvation . Assam thought his companion a " smart little guy . " The comm droid displayed a dose of curiosity when he investigated a nearby derelict ship , despite his companions ' insistence that there was no time to do so . Behind the scenes . The communications droid was created by authors Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman as a character in the comic series " " . He was mentioned in the solicitation for the series ' , and he has since appeared in every issue of the series save for its twelfth and thirteenth . He is , however , yet to receive a name . The droid has been drawn by both Hardman and Brian Thies , and has been colored by Rachelle Rosenberg and Jordan Boyd . The comm droid appeared on a of " Legacy " first issue that paid homage to for the . In the picture , the comm droid occupies space in the top left corner that in 1977 was taken by the Death Star .