8D8

**8D8** was a masculine Roche Hive 8D-series smelter droid who was lobotomized and reprogrammed to assist EV-9D9, Jabba Desilijic Tiure's chief of Cyborg Operations, in terrorizing the droid pool of the Hutt crime lord's palace on the planet Tatooine. He was temporarily deactivated after his master's demise and later worked for Boba Fett. He presented those who came to pay tribute to the Daimyo, and provided information to Fett.

## History

### Solitude following deactivation

In 5 ABY, Boba Fett and Indiana Jones, while in possession of the Crystal Skull, investigated Jabba's Palace. They came across a deactivated 8D8 and a similarly powered down EV-9D9 when the pair reached the droid torture chamber.

### Working for Boba Fett

8D8 was eventually reactivated to work for Boba Fett in 9 ABY, who previously attacked Bib Fortuna, killed him, and replaced him as Daimyo. 8D8 presented those who came to pay tribute to the Daimyo at the palace, such as the Aqualish Garfalaquox, the Trandoshan Dokk Strassi, and the majordomo of the Mayor of Mos Espa, Mok Shaiz. He also presented two Gamorreans that were once bodyguards to Jabba and Fortuna. The Gamorreans did not surrender even after their patron was killed, and 8D8 suggested that torturing them would have sent a message to all potential challengers to Fett's throne. When Fett refused to torture them, 8D8 replied that on Tatooine one must project strength to be accepted as a Daimyo. Instead, Fett decided to spare the bodyguards, in return of their loyalty. Fennec Shand agreed with 8D8, and thought it was a bad idea.

Shortly after, Fett and Shand were abmushed in Mos Espa. The Gamorreans that Fett had spared helped him to overcome their attackers. Shand captured one of the attackers alive, and brought him to the palace. 8D8 explained that the prisoner is of the Order of the Night Wind, and was very expensive to hire. Shand claimed that they were overpriced, but 8D8 insisted that their reputation was legendary, and that there was no way that the prisoner would reveal information. He added that they feared no mean, and in response, Shand dropped the prisoner to the rancor pit. The assassin, believing a rancor was in the pit, succumbed to his fear and claimed that Mayor Mok Shaiz hired him. The Night Wind assassin had been fooled, as there was no rancor behind the door. Subsequently, Fett and Shand went to visit Shaiz with their prisoner to address the matter to the mayor.

### Peel's petition

Later on, 8D8 gave Fett a presentation on the history of the territories of Jabba the Hutt and Bib Fortuna. When first showing the businesses protected by Jabba on a holographic display, he refused to say the Hutt's name in fear that he would offend Fett or make him feel threatened. Fett, though, was offended by 8D8's caution and so the droid apologized to him before being prompted to carry on by Shand. 8D8 explained the uneasy alliances Fortuna relied on to remain in power and that Fett's new subjects were awaiting to see what kind of leader he would be in the wake of his rise to power. As Fett and Shand discussed the assassin attack before, one of the Gamorrean guards came with news that one of Fett's vassals was wanting to speak with the Daimyo.

8D8 translated the guard's words to Fett and confirmed to Shand that there was no existing appointment. Fett let the visitor enter the thrown room regardless. The new arrival came in with the other Gamorrean guard and, per 8D8's request, introduced himself as a water-monger named Lortha Peel. 8D8 asked what Peel's petition to Fett was, to which Peel claimed that no one respected the new Daimyo. The droid angrily stopped the vendor, but Fett told his assistant to let Peel speak. Peel and the Daimyo then discussed the disorder amongst the residents of Mos Espa and the water-monger asked for Fett to help get rid of the Mods, a group of cybernetically enhanced individuals that were stealing from him. Fett visited the mods, but after hearing their situation, he chose to hire the gang members instead.

### Delivering news

Not long after, "the Twins," a pair of Hutts and cousins to the late Jabba the Hutt who wished to claim their relative's former territories, sent the Wookiee bounty hunter Krrsantan to assassinate Fett. Krrsantan was captured in his attempt, and in the meantime, the Twins learned that Mayor Shaiz had promised Fett's territories to the Pyke Syndicate. Thus the Twins, choosing to abandon their claim on Tatooine, traveled to Fett's palace with a peace offering. 8D8 interrupted Fett's dinner and with Shand to inform him of the Hutts' arrival and their gift. Fett and Shand ultimately spoke with the Twins, who informed Fett of why they were leaving, not mentioning the Pykes by name, and gave him a rancor.

While Fett began training with the rancor, a request was made for another meeting between him and Shaiz. However, word came from the city hall that the mayor was unavailable for at least twenty days. 8D8 interrupted Fett's time with his new rancor, informing the Daimyo of the news. Thus Fett told the smelter droid to have Shand "suit up" for an immediate visit to the city hall. Fett and Shand traveled there with the Mods and apprehended Shaiz's Twi'lek majordomo, learning that it was the Pykes that Shaiz was working with.

### The translator

Fett later held a banquet with the Mos Espa crime family leaders, hoping to gain their support against the Pyke Syndicate. As 8D8 stood to the side between two Aqualish guards, the Daimyo began by making the family his own promises and listing the apparent downsides of the Pykes' operations on Tatooine, with a brief interruption from his rancor in its dungeon below. When Garfalaquox asked what Fett was proposing, 8D8 translating the Aqualish leader, Fett suggested that the three families join him in clearing the Pykes from Tatooine.

Fett's proposal wasn't met with any supportive sentiment from the dons, so he instead asked that they remain neutral in his feud with the syndicate. Dokk Strassi was the first to agree with the terms, and Garfalaquox followed, 8D8 translating the Aqualish's words. Once the Klatooinian family leader agreed, the parties toasted, and the families departed the palace.

### Holding out in Mos Espa

Fett and Shand began mustering allies to help them against the Pyke Syndicate. In the meantime, the Pykes made their own moves, going on to bomb the Sanctuary cantina in Mos Espa. Realizing that the Pykes were striking, Fett and his assets positioned themselves in Mos Espa, 8D8 joining the Daimyo himself with Shand, the Twi'lek majordomo, and the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin at the ruins of the Sanctuary. The syndicate sent the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane and some Pyke back shooters past Fett's sentries to their position, where 8D8 had stood watch outside. The droid subsequently went in to inform Fett that there was a visitor.

Fett faced Bane, their standoff ultimately blowing over in a stalemate. In the meantime, 8D8 remained inside, but was soon joined by the others again when they received word that the crime families of Mos Espa had turned on the Daimyo's forces. While Shand left to make an attack on the Pyke Syndicate aligned leadership on Tatooine, 8D8 stayed with the rest as they awaited the arrival of Pyke forces. When Pyke troops arrived outside, Fett and Djarin prepared to strike, but the majordomo then rose from beside 8D8 and convinced the Daimyo into letting him negotiate with the enemy, the droid observing the exchange. However, Fett was instead using the Twi'lek as a distraction, leading him and Djarin to begin a surprise attack on the Pyke forces.

## Characteristics

A lanky Roch Hive 8D-series smelter droid, 8D8 was a long-faced humanoid droid with a blank white pair of photoreceptors and body that stood 1.83 meters tall and was designed with extreme durability. He was once a heavy-labor droid designed for industrial work. The droid also contained a logic processor module on his chest. 8D8, like most 8D-series droids, resented the more sophisticated protocol and astromech droids.

A cruel industrial droid who was lobotomized and reprogrammed for sadism and to work in Jabba's droid torture chamber. A bully, he sometimes tortured other droids for his own amusement. 8D8 also loved to listen to the singer Sy Snootles albums to sensor-shattering levels. In the service of Boba Fett, the smelter droid believed in the traditions of projecting strength in order to affirm leadership on Tatooine, suggesting the torture of two captured Gamorreans to the new Daimyo. 8D8 recognized a Night Wind assassin by his affiliation and reputation, cynically claiming to Fett that the assassin would never cooperate.

8D8 was initially cautious of iterating Jabba the Hutt's name to Fett, believing that it might insult the Daimyo. When Fett questioned such sentiment, the smelter droid regurgitated the excuse that the Daimyo had felt threatened and then apologized when his master was insulted by the claim. 8D8 was assertive with Lortha Peel, cutting the vendor off in a scorning manner when the man claimed no one respected Fett. While interrupting Fett's first training with his new rancor, the droid ignored the Daimyo's insistence that he was busy and continued with the news he had.

## Appearances

* Counterattack (First appearance)
* From the Desert Comes a Stranger
* The Sun Sets and It Rises
* The Believer