K-3PO

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**K-3PO** was one of the protocol droids that had served within the military of the Rebel Alliance by their time of an third year into their Galactic civil War against the Empire. Protocol droid K-3PO worked in an military command center at the rebellion Echo Base at Hoth, where this K-3PO did monitor movement of troops, personally delivered messages, and did operate an loudspeaker announcement systems. During a Battle at Hoth K-3PO droid was present at the rebel command center when the rebels lowered Echo Base's shield and fired off the Battle of Hoth's opening shots from the Echo base's ion cannon, an act that'd allowed the first transport to escape the Empire. K-3PO was present when their patrols were launched and when all remaining ground staff were ordered to evacuate the base. However K-3PO was destroyed by an falling debris when the command center was damaged before an final transport fled.

## History

### Alliance Service

#### Recognition

A white 3PO-series protocol droid, K-3PO, also called just "Kay," was manufactured by Cybot Galactica[1] during the days of the Old Republic.[4] K-3PO was originally the property of Arhul Narra, who fought for the Republic during the Clone Wars, using his protocol droid as a walking repository for his important files. When the veteran Narra later joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic[4] as a starfighter pilot, eventually leading the legendary Renegade Flight and helping form the elite Rogue Squadron, units both attached to the roving Alliance High Command headquarters,[1] K-3PO became a valuable military asset.[4]

A military junkie, Narra maintained detailed memoirs and records of the various missions and assignments during his service with the Alliance. Because these records often included top-secret Alliance data, Narra kept them only in shielded files within the memory banks of K-3PO.[1]

As the years passed, Narra refrained from wiping K-3PO's memory, and not without reason. The wealth of military tactics installed within K-3PO unexpectedly began to absorb into his comprehension circuits.[1] With the thousands of tactics and other files stored within K-3PO, the droid served Narra more as a tactical advisor than a protocol droid.[3] In fact, during the Battle of Ton-Falk, prior to the Battle of Yavin, K-3PO made an offhand remark to Narra that revealed an ingeniously simple tactic that Narra and his forces exploited, leading to an Alliance victory. The resulting Imperial losses during the battle—two frigates and a *Dreadnaught*-class heavy cruiser—proved K-3PO's value.[1]

Narra demanded[4] that Alliance High Command "recognize" K-3PO's worth,[1] a formal process by which droids were respected as individuals in their own right.[4] After some initial disputes, High Command agreed,[1] and, with at least two decades of military service, K-3PO became one of the few droids granted the Alliance honor of "recognition."[3] High Command assigned K-3PO to the Support Services branch of the Alliance Military. K-3PO served as the coordinator droid for all droids in Alliance High Command, first at the Massassi Station on Yavin 4 and later at the temporary Thila outpost following the Battle of Yavin.[1]

### Echo Base Service

K-3PO continued to serve High Command at Echo Base, the secret Alliance headquarters on the ice planet Hoth, by 3 ABY. As the coordinator in charge of Echo Base's droid pool, K-3PO became a fixture in the base's command center leading up to the Battle of Hoth,[5] where he served as an advisor to base commander General Carlist Rieekan and Princess Leia Organa. K-3PO, along with Head Controller Toryn Farr, also operated Echo Base's v-150 anti-orbital ion cannon and monitored its systems.[6]

During this time, K-3PO confronted the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, attempting to reassign the former to Echo Base's communications center and the latter to ice cavern-drilling operations. Taken aback, C-3PO protested, claiming that he and R2-D2 were personal aides to Commander Luke Skywalker and Princess Organa, and warned that he was on an errand for the princess and that she would deactivate K-3PO if he interfered. K-3PO eventually rescinded the order. At the conclusion of the confrontation, C-3PO remarked that he and R2-D2 had turned up the heating system in the princess's chambers after finding the room freezing cold, which K-3PO alarmingly warned would result in the melting of the cavern walls and potential damage. C-3PO and R2-D2 rushed off to correct their error.[7]

K-3PO was present in the command center shortly thereafter, monitoring a tactical screen, when Han Solo announced his intentions to leave the Alliance for personal reasons.[2] At some point, K-3PO detected a wampa in Echo Base's south corridor while on a late-night patrol, and he had to escape to call for help. Because the Rebels' tauntauns were irritated by ultrasonic frequencies emitted by certain droids, including himself, K-3PO was careful to keep his distance from them.[6] Nevertheless, K-3PO suffered structural damage to his external frame when an obstinate tauntaun's tail swatted a hole through his right breast plating, damage that would never be repaired.[5]

During the early stages of the Battle of Hoth, K-3PO occupied the command center as the Rebels fired off the opening shots of the engagement from Echo Base's planetary ion cannon.[2] He proceeded to help coordinate the base's evacuation and maintained communication with the Rebels' escaping GR-75 medium transports to verify their sublightand hyperdrive engines were operational.[6] K-3PO was destroyed during the battle when the command center was hit[1]and left as a ruined hulk,[2] before being blown apart completely during the Imperial advancement upon the base.[8]