K-1RK

"*Actually, despite the appearance of Master Aifo's garments, the material is actually very flexible. It's very expensive and is effective in many environments.*"
—K-1RK, repeating his programmed response to comments on his master, Bur Aifo's clothing
**K-1RK** is a reprogrammed KX-series security droid working for the Neimoidian smuggler Bur Aifo. The reprogramming was not perfect and K-1RK is known to malfunction, though it is currently only minor bugs in his speech pattern, with no behavioural issues.

## Biography

### Created and stolen

#### Arakyd Industries

In 15 BBY, K-1RK, like many Imperial droids, was manufactured and created in an Arakyd Industries factory on the impossibly polluted planet of Vulpter, located in the Deep Core. From this dystopian world, K-1RK was sent to Nar Shaddaa with a large shipment of other security droids. The delivery was intercepted by Bur Aifo, who, by chance, took K-1RK, who was at that point just another factory default KX-series.

#### Aifo's enforcer and advisor

The Neimoidian had the droid repainted, and then reprogrammed, by some clients on Nar Shaddaa. The changes to his code resulted in a few minor, but not necessarily detrimental, errors within his programming. Aifo decided not to fix the minor issues in the droid's software, believing that the costs to have the bugs ironed out outweighs the minor boost in performance, a conclusion he claims to have come to of his own accord, rather than that of his advisor, K-1RK.

### The Guunhi client

#### Shadow Town incident

After spending a little too long standing around in one of his spaceports, K-1RK's master Bur Aifo had had just about enough. The Guunhi would not get away with a late repayment this time. The bikers had been late before, and had required quite a few reminders before they paid up. After realising the potential benefits of seizing and selling the modified speeders the gang had bought with their loans, Aifo ordered his droid to take them to the bar the gang frequented in Shadow Town.

Here, Aifo had the Guunhi road captain and treasurer brutalised and executed by K-1RK. This marked the beginning of the smuggler's bloody conflict with the bikers.

#### Baglo's palace

A few days after the example made of the Guunhi in Shadow Town, Aifo met with Baglo the Hutt of Nar Shaddaa. K-1RK piloted Aifo's Sheahtipede shuttle to the palace and accompanied the Neimoidian inside, standing around and acting as muscle in case one of the reprobates that hung around the slimy Hutt attempted to do anything. It can be presumed that K-1RK returned his master to one of the many spaceports he owns.

#### The Guunhi massacre

After assisting Colt Bolton and the Black Sun in dealing with some rogue assets, K-1RK lead Baglo the Hutt's enforcer Tovan and the Rishii enforcer Vavish in a raid on the Guunhi biker gang's headquarters. Upon reaching the second floor, however, K-1RK had his head knocked off by a punch from the Guunhi gang's leader, Guunhi. Tovan was able to defeat the gang leader, and brought his corpse to his master while letting Vavish return K-1RK to Bur Aifo.

## Personality and traits

K-1RK is a bog-standard KX-series security droid on the surface, only standing out due to his bright red coat of paint given to him just prior to his reprogramming.

It was here the similarities ended, however, as K-1RK serves as both an enforcer and advisor to Bur Aifo, providing the short-tempered and greedy Neimoidian a sounding board that can provide an impartial critique of any decisions he planned on making or ideas he conjured up. While Aifo always has the final say, K-1RK holds a considerable amount of influence over the smuggler's ultimate decision.