3B6-RA-7

**3B6-RA-7**, nicknamed "**Threebee**," was a personal-assistant droid that worked as a spy, care-giver, farmhand, and housekeeper, serving masters as diverse as Moff Dunhausen and the moisture farmer Sholh Dorr, as well as Daimyo Boba Fett. Originally in the possession of the Imperial Security Bureau, 3B6-RA-7 was programmed to work as a protocol and spy droid simultaneously, resulting in mass incompetence while fulfilling the former duties. Hoping to keep tabs on the Moff, the Bureau presented the droid to Dunhausen, who quickly tired of 3B6-RA-7's ineptitude. Rumors about the RA-7 line being used as spies persisted, and soon enough Dunhausen sought to dispose of the droid.

On Tatooine, 3B6-RA-7 was captured by the Jawa Jek Nkik, and constant attempts were made to sell him off to the customers of the scavenger race. The attempts failed, and 3B6-RA-7 would become a mainstay of Nebit's sandcrawler, deriding and mocking any newcomers the Jawas managed to steal. Eventually, he was sold to aging farmer Sholh Dorr at the annual Droidfest. Over time, 3B6-RA-7 began to genuinely care for Dorr, but was nonetheless passed on once more, when the farmer decided to sell him at Eport. By that stage, 3B6-RA-7 was a collectors' item, since most of the other droids of his make had been destroyed at Yavin, when the Death Star had been destroyed. After the Battle of Endor, 3B6-RA-7 had been returned to Tatooine once more. Four years into the reign of the New Republic, he was sold by a group of Jawas to Lord Boba Fett, to whom the droid acted as a palace housekeeper afterwards.

## History

In the possession of the Jawa scavengers, 3B6-RA-7's black shell was stripped back to its metallic undercoat to prevent overheating under Tatooine's twin suns. As time went by, the droid began to develop a bitter disposition, verbally abusing newcomers to the sandcrawler's hold. He would constantly be trotted out for sale by the Jawas, but his surly nature wound up costing the scavengers several profitable transactions. Eventually, the Jawas stopped putting him on display, instead opting to leave him in the sandcrawler when visiting the moisture farmers.

When Imperial stormtroopers attacked Nebit's sandcrawler and slaughtered the Jawas, 3B6-RA-7 had no remorse whatsoever. Much to his surprise, though, the troops were not in fact looking for him, but R2-D2 and C-3PO, who had recently been acquired and sold by Nebit. The droids were harboring top-secret information on an Imperial installation, which had earned them such attention from the Imperial armed forces.

Abandoned once more, 3B6-RA-7 was acquired by another Jawa clan and sold off at the annual Droidfest. Sholh Dorr, an aging farmer, purchased the droid, and put him to use as a care-giver. Dorr had been injured in 22 BBY while trying to save Shmi Skywalker Lars from a clan of Tusken Raiders and, as a result, needed help around his farm.

Eventually, 3B6-RA-7 began to genuinely care for Dorr and came to consider the farm his true home. He looked forward to the day his program priority cycle would allow him to forget his past and provide Dorr with years of loyal servitude. Dorr, however, had other ideas. He saw 3B6-RA-7 as an investment—made all the more wise when, following the Battle of Yavin and the destruction of the Death Star, RA-7s became collectors' items, since most of their number had been on board the battlestation. 3B6-RA-7 was subsequently sold on Eport at an auction for over a thousand times the price Dorr had originally paid.

By 4 ABY, 3B6-RA-7 had returned to Tatooine, being present in a shed that contained several starships including the *Slave I*. After Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlacc, he went to the shed to find means of departure from Tatooine. The bounty hunter decided to take the ALC-8 rather than *Slave I* as the wider galaxy thought he was dead, and so he decided to wait for the right time to reveal his survival to the public eye. 3B6-RA-7, while in a shadowy corner, watched as Fett boarded ALC-8 and flew the ship out of the shed and off Tatooine.

In 9 ABY, 3B6-RA-7, who was still on Tatooine after all this time, was in Mos Eisley. Sometime later, Boba Fett returned to Tatooine, heading to Jabba's Palace, where he killed Bib Fortuna and took over the throne with Fennec Shand by his side. Eventually, 3B6-RA-7 was sold to Lord Fett at his palace by a group of Jawas who also sold him two IG-100 MagnaGuards. The droid began working for Fett afterwards as a housekeeper with loyal servitude, becoming a regular of the palace.

## Personality and traits

As with all droids of his make, 3B6-RA-7 had fifth-degree primary programming, giving him low intelligence and capability to do only menial tasks. At first, due to the duality of his programming, 3B6-RA-7 was startlingly incompetent as a protocol droid, failing to complete the simplest of tasks for Moff Dunhausen. Despite this, he was aware enough to realize what was happening when Dunhausen abandoned him on Tatooine. His abandonment, subsequent capture, and deformation by the Jawas caused him to develop a surly and unpleasant demeanor, and as a result, 3B6-RA-7 would often verbally lash out at newcomers to the sandcrawler's hold. At first, the droid felt nothing toward sentients, as he had little sympathy for his temporary Jawa owners when they fell under Imperial guns. However, working for Sholh Dorr, 3B6-RA-7's attitude changed, and he began to have a true sense of purpose and belonging. While working as a housekeeper of Boba Fett's Palace, 3B6-RA-7 was loyal to the former bounty hunter, openly acknowledging Fett's rule over Mos Espa and respecting the Daimyo.

## Appearances

* Beyond the Dune Sea (First appearance)
* The Sand Will Provide
* From the Desert Comes a Stranger
* The Believer