Switch Switch was a protocol droid with masculine programming who worked as both a crime lord and an information broker on the XQ2 Platform Sel Zonn Station in the years following the end of the Clone Wars . Switch established a criminal organization that was based in a storage bay on Sel Zonn Station . He soon became a rival of the Chevin criminal Ganga Lor , and he competed with Lor for control of illegal activities aboard the space station . In about 17 BBY , Switch was hired by Alderaanian Security to collect and receive one of their agents , who had been frozen in a slab of carbonite while on an assignment in the Deep Core . The protocol droid gained possession of the frozen operative , and the Alderaanian Security agent Maya was dispatched to collect the carbonite slab from Switch . After Maya was attacked by Imperial stormtroopers , a group of spacers met with Switch in her place , and they negotiated with him for the frozen agent ' s release . However , just as Switch and the spacers concluded their business , they were attacked by Ganga Lor and a group of his thugs . Switch and the spacers defeated the Chevin , and , shortly afterward , the spacers traveled to the planet Cato Neimoidia on a mission for the Alderaanian Resistance , a rebellious movement led by Senator Bail Organa . A contact working for Switch obtained copies of some encrypted messages that had been sent from the palace of the Hutt Darga on Cato Neimoidia , and Switch ordered his contact to make the messages available to the spacers . Switch later sent the Twi ' lek Koroma Moro to compete in the Cloud City Sabacc Tournament on the planet Bespin , and the droid engaged the assistance of the spacers to ensure that Moro won the competition . Biography . Arrival on Sel Zonn Station . Switch was a protocol droid with masculine programming who , at some point prior to 17 BBY , set himself up as an information broker and crime lord on Sel Zonn Station , an XQ2 Platform that orbited the planet Brentaal IV . He founded a criminal organization and assembled a group of Gamorrean thugs to work for him , as well as hiring a Twi ' lek to serve as his majordomo , and engaging the services of the astromech droid R5 - B8 . Switch established a base of operations for himself in Deep Storage Bay V14 , on a level of the station that had restricted access . Although he soon became well - known on the station , Switch was able to keep the location of his headquarters secret from most of the inhabitants of Sel Zonn Station , because V14 was quarantined due to some exhaust conduits that passed through the bay . To further ensure that Switch ' s use of V14 remained secret , the droid had his majordomo bring monthly bribes to the station ' s manager , to ensure that the bay remained off - limits . He allowed the bay to fall into disrepair and had an expensive japor ivory wood desk placed in the center of the room from which he conducted his business . The protocol droid soon gained a rival in the form of Ganga Lor , a Chevin crime lord who had arrived on the station at about the same time as him . Switch also had some dealings with the Human Doctor Byra Fenn , the operator of the pharmaceutical supplier Delgas Medical Supplies , and she owed him some favors as a result . Business with the Alderaanian rebels . Circa 17 BBY , Switch was hired by Alderaanian Security , a security force from the planet Alderaan , to collect and store some cargo for them , which contained one of their agents . The agent was returning from an assignment spying on the Galactic Empire in the Deep Core , and had been frozen in a slab of carbonite to reduce the chance of capture by the Empire while traveling back to Alderaan . Switch arranged for the cargo to arrive on Sel Zonn Station in a cargo bay on Blue Deck , an Imperial - controlled zone of the station , as he believed that the Imperials would not expect anyone to be bold enough to hide contraband there . However , Ganga Lor became jealous of Switch ' s deal with the Alderaanians , and the Chevin began plotting to rid himself of his rival . Around that time , Switch was also contracted to arrange for a crate of Corellian ale to be delivered to an address on Alderaan , and he stored the ale in the Blue Deck cargo bay with the carbonite - frozen Alderaanian . An Alderaanian agent called Maya was sent by Senator Bail Organa to collect the frozen operative from Switch , but she was attacked by stormtroopers soon after arriving on Sel Zonn Station . A group of spacers who attempted to help her escape from the Imperials found out about the cargo , so they went to collect the carbonite slab from Switch in Maya ' s place . On their arrival at Switch ' s cargo bay , the protocol droid introduced himself and R5 - B8 to the agents and offered them drinks from his extensive collection . The spacers entered negotiations with him for the release of the frozen Alderaanian , and he offered to release the cargo in return for a payment of 1 , 000 . However , just as the spacers were concluding their business with the protocol droid , Ganga Lor and a group of Lor ' s thugs entered the room and attacked Switch and the spacers . Even though Lor had bribed Switch ' s own thugs prior to the attack , so that they would not fight hard , Switch and the spacers were able to kill the Chevin gangster and all of his cronies . Lor ' s organization was destroyed , because all of his men had participated in the attack , so the Chevin ' s demise allowed Switch to gain greater control over crime on Sel Zonn Station . A short time afterward , Switch received some information from TC - 663 , a protocol droid contact of his who worked on the planet Cato Neimoidia as a translator for the Hutt crime lord Darga Jiramma Mionne . Darga ' s Neimoidian majordomo , Igren Demos , had secretly sent a number of messages to the Imperial Inquisitor Valin Draco while the Hutt slept , and through monitoring communications from Darga ' s palace TC - 663 had realized that one of Darga ' s associates was dealing with the Empire without the Hutt ' s knowledge . The translator sent copies of Demos ' messages to Switch , but the information broker was unable to break their encryption . The spacers Switch had encountered on Sel Zonn Station had since joined the Alderaanian Resistance , an anti - Imperial rebellious movement led by Senator Organa , and were staying as guests at Darga ' s palace , so Switch ordered TC - 663 to give the spacers a copy of the transmissions . Switch hoped that the spacers would be able to break the encryption and would share the information from the messages with TC - 663 , who could then send the intelligence onto Switch on Sel Zonn Station . Fixing the Cloud City Sabacc Tournament . Darga relocated to Cloud City on the planet Bespin after the Alderaanian Resistance agents released the captive Jedi Master Denia from Darga ' s palace , and the Resistance team subsequently traveled to Cloud City in search of the Hutt . Some of Switch ' s contacts in the city informed him that they had sighted the agents there , and the protocol droid developed a plan to work with the agents to ensure that a victor of Switch ' s choice won the upcoming Cloud City Sabacc Tournament . At Switch ' s behest , the Twi ' lek Koroma Moro , a starship captain who had hauled shipments of cargo for Switch in the past , signed up for the competition , with an entry fee supplied by Switch . The droid then set up a means by which the Alderaanian Resistance agents could contact him via Cloud City ' s communications system , and he sent a message to Captain Sirona Okeefe of the Resistance , requesting that the agents get in touch with him . The agents contacted Switch and accepted his proposal , and the droid offered them five percent of the competition winnings if Moro won the tournament . The Twi ' lek performed well during the opening stages of the competition , and , three days into the event , Switch sent the agents a piece of software that he intended for them to install into the tournament ' s sabacc dealer droids to alter the droids ' programming and turn the odds of the competition in Moro ' s favor . The agents installed the program , and , as a result , Moro won the competition . Characteristics . By the time he became an information broker , Switch had not had a memory wipe for a long while , which allowed him to develop a greater degree of individuality than most droids . The remnants of his protocol droid programming led him to have aspirations of sophistication , and , to demonstrate his refined tastes , he acquired an extensive collection of beverages and a rare , hand - crafted Japor ivory wood desk . Switch spoke with a Coruscanti - Imperial accent and enunciated himself like an upper - class Human , making him sound as urbane as he tried to appear . However , while he spoke cheerily and lightly , he was not as civilized or friendly as he tried to present himself ; he gave no value to life and thought nothing of the deaths of sentient beings . Despite his impassiveness , Switch understood the concept of friendship and considered R5 - B8 to be his most valued companion . He was persuasive and possessed good criminal acumen , and it was these traits that he used to form his organization and convince the sentient beings who served him to make him their leader . He had an interest in illicit activities that took place throughout the galaxy , and he made his services available to anyone who was prepared to pay for them . He also liked to flicker his photoreceptors to imitate blinking . Switch was covered in shiny , ebony - colored plating and was fitted with standard protocol droid systems , including a processor , a vocabulator , a translation unit , and hand appendages . He also carried with him an audio recorder , a hold - out blaster , a comlink , and a datapad . Behind the scenes . Switch was created by Rodney Thompson and appeared in " The Traitor ' s Gambit " , the first adventure in the " Dawn of Defiance " roleplaying campaign . He later received mentions in " A Wretched Hive " and " The Queen of Air and Darkness " , the second and third installments of the campaign , which were also written by Thompson . In " The Traitor ' s Gambit " , the players roleplay as the group of spacers who negotiate with Switch for the release of the frozen Alderaanian , and when the player - characters first arrive at Switch ' s cargo bay , it is possible for them to engage in a fight with Switch ' s Gamorrean guards . If they choose to do so , Switch is not bothered by the fight . The players also have a variety of options for how their negotiations with Switch can occur , and they can persuade him to reduce his fee by 200 if they agree to supply him with information on a regular basis . They can also bribe him to find out about the nature of cargo that they are collecting , and if they mention that they own a starship , Switch offers to pay them to deliver a crate of Corellian ale to an address on Alderaan . If the players fail to persuade Switch to tell them the cargo ' s location , he gives it to them after the conclusion of Ganga Lor ' s attack . If any of the player - characters are injured during the fight , Switch calls in a favor with Byra Fenn to get the spacers healed free of charge . It is also possible for Switch to be destroyed during the attack , but this outcome is presumably non - canon , because " A Wretched Hive " and " The Queen of Air and Darkness " indicate that he was active after the attack . Once the spacers ' business with Switch is concluded , it is possible for the droid to contact Sirona Okeefe and tell her that the spacers require transport off the station . In " The Queen of Air and Darkness " , Switch requests that the player - characters help him to ensure that Koroma Mora wins the Cloud City Sabacc Tournament , and the players have the option of either accepting or rejecting the request . If the players agree to help Switch , the droid initially offers them five percent of Moro ' s winnings , and if the players choose to negotiate with him , they can persuade Switch to offer them up to seven percent of the prize money . During the competition , if the player - characters fail to tell Moro that they are working for Switch , the protocol droid sends Moro a message that informs him that the agents will be providing him assistance . It is then later possible for Moro to win the tournament .