FX - 7 / Legends FX - 7 ( or FX7 ) , also known as Fixit , was a FX - 7 medical assistant droid in service to the Alliance to Restore the Republic around the time of the Battle of Hoth . Biography . FX - 7 was stationed in the Rebels secret Echo Base on the ice planet of Hoth . He assisted both Human and droid medics in the Echo Base medical lab . The droids ability to use its twenty retractable manipulator arms simultaneously proved useful to an understaffed medical bay . After the loss of Yavin Base , the Alliance used any outmoded equipment they could find . This droid was certainly classed as outmoded but proved invaluable for its sophisticated medical , diagnostic and procedural programming . Although this droid was capable of speech , its speech synthesizer card was missing . FX - 7 assisted 2 - 1B on Hoth after Luke Skywalker was attacked by a wampa . The droids built up a good rapport with one another , and had worked together for more than a year . Despite this , 2 - 1B would often state his superiority over his medical assistant , due to his egotistical droid personality . FX - 7 and 2 - 1B escaped Hoth aboard the GR - 75 medium transport " Bright Hope " , the last transport to leave the planet . After the bounty hunters 4 - LOM and Zuckuss rescued the passengers of the " Bright Hope " , including the two medical droids , FX - 7 was reassigned to the EF76 Nebulon - B escort frigate " Redemption " . Behind the scenes . FX - 7 ' s first appearance in the vintage 3 and 3 / 4 inch Kenner line came in 1980 . Released on the new Empire cards , FX - 7 is a unique figure in the original line . Consisting of a gray tubular body , a head that can be spun 360 degrees and can be extended upwards by an inch in height . Underneath the head is a rigid white arm terminating in a claw appendage , this arm is mounted on a spinning ring allowing it to be spun 360 degrees around the body . The main part of the body has eight white arms that can be opened out away from the body . Although these limbs have no joints , they can be slightly articulated at the elbow and shoulder . There is a major variation with the FX - 7 figure in that two different head molds exist . One head being smaller with differently situated detail than the other . Another shorter FX - 7 can be found on card , this figure is simply missing its glued on base that sometimes broke off during production . This shorter FX - 7 is not classed as a true variation but merely a production mistake . FX - 7 ran for 5 years through the Empire , Jedi and Tri - logo line . The next FX - 7 figure to be released came in the Power Of The Jedi line in 2000 - 2002 . This new figure offers a far more realistic look and greater attention to detail that the vintage toy . The addition of twice the number of articulated limbs of the vintage figure , jointed at the elbow and shoulder , add much more detail and capture a close likeness of the original production prop . In " " , author M . Shayne Bell mistakenly and inexplicably varies between referring to FX - 7 first as " Effour - Seven , " and then calling the droid " Effex - Seven " once , the only time in the story the droid is correctly named , before again returning to calling him " Effour - Seven , " all within the course of several paragraphs . Star Wars Insider made use of FX - 7 ' s status as assistant to 2 - 1B in the latter ' s short - lived " advice column , " Dear 2 - 1B . To counter the brash ego of the humanoid droid , the magazine ' s editors " brought in " FX - 7 to answer reader mail in Star Wars Insider 55 .