BB-9E

## Pre-Campaign History

BB-9e was a rogue assassin astromech droid with a similar ball-like build as the BB8 unit and worked with Sovereign 1 (Lirri Eronoss) & 3 (Dietro Dorrtan).

## **Campaign History**

### JO:R: Episode VIII: Machinations on Mechis III Mission Report

While following up on the events of the foiled Exchequer caper on Etti IV, the Jedi discovered the droids being used in the attempt were minted on Mechis III. These droids were created by Arakyd Industries, a corporation owned and staffed by a union of self-governing droids.  During the investigation, the  Jedi were led on a guided tour through the facility, riding upon a rail cart  which was piloted by an astromech. During the ride, a lying-in-wait BB-9E remote-ejected the astromech pilot from the cart and left the cart to fall down a sheer cliff in an attempt to kill the party. The party escaped onto a walking bridge, where BB-9e introduced itself before using a saw blade to cut the bridge down, dropping the party into a weapons testing room (in front of the weapons). Using his advanced Imperial military SCOMP link, BB-9E sliced into a bipedal war droid and a small army of mouse droids, siccing them on the Jedi , all while watching from behind the safety of a transparisteel  screen. In a sheerly ludicrous series of event including foot-speeder, stacking mouse droids like blocks, and physically going toe to toe with a giant war droid, the Jedi managed to chase down BB-9E, tackle him, and subdue him with two restraining bolts, just to make sure. They brought BB-9E as a captive back to the Praxeum.

At the Praxeum, Jedi Filsa K’san spent four days talking, amusing, playing Dejarik, and negotiating oil bath privileges with BB-9e to bribe it for intel. BB-9E gave Filsa intel on Sovereign 3 (Dietro Dorrtan), but managed to manipulate Filsa and lock her in a closet before popping off both restraining bolts and making a daring escape from the Praxeum upon a  commandeered  *Corellian Dawn*.

Soon after, Filsa broke out of her closet and rallied a pursuing party after BB-9E, who had a several minute head start pushing the Corellian Dawn as hard as it could. BB-9E didn’t realize a 12 year old initiate, Dash Mechma, was on board, hiding in a maintenance closet. BB-9E tried to evade the party by blending its signature in with the environment, but their sensors picked BB-9E out of the crowd pretty easily. Before the party could catch up to it, BB-9E made lightspeed jump into the middle of traffic around the Wheel. It was closely followed by the party, so it made as much chaos as it could,weaving dangerously through traffic, before making yet another lightspeed jump to Mandalore, leaving hypersace within spitting distance of a three-way Mandalorian skirmish. It tried to lose the party by embroiling the Jedi in the skirmish, but was unsuccessful in doing so.

Finally, Filsa got her starship close enough to the *Corellian Dawn*  to make BB-9E an offer: abandon the ship at the next space port and they would not pursue it further. BB-9E ignored Filsa and performed light-speed skipping, jumping quickly and perilously between orbital and suborbital locations along a hyperlane. The last jump before it ran out of precalculated skips was through a dense forest in an Ithorian Herdship. In the ensuing crash landing, The party caught up to BB-9E, rammed the ship to a stand-still, and boarded  to pursue the droid and recover their youngling. They managed to subdue  BB-9E once again, this time with a little  help from Dash. In a futile attempt, BB-9E attacked the Jedi one last time, though he was no match for the five Jedi present and the youngling technomancer. . They all returned to the Jedi Praxeum together, and though Dash managed to reprogram BB-9E to be his buddy, it has done nothing for his decidedly nefarious and grumpy disposition. Dash was also able to deliver personal details on Sovereign Squad by way of encrypted memstick, but he was more interested in having a brand new best droid pal.