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**BT-1**, also referred to as "**Bee Tee**" was a highly dangerous homicidal BT-1 assassin droid made by the Galactic Empire's Tarkin Initiative, but he rebelled and killed every one of his creators. After being deactivated for a time it was found and reactivated by Doctor Aphra who dealt with the Droid Gotra who sought to use BT-1 in their droid army. But after being activated, BT-1, Aphra would be found by Sith-Lord, Darth Vader, who would work with Aphra, BT-1, and her protocol-assassin droid, 0-0-0, during Lord Vader's search for rebel pilot Luke Skywalker. This lasted until Aphra fell out of favor with Vader, and Aphra took her crew to make their way in the galaxy. As a "Blastomech", BT-1 was made to resemble an ordinary astromech, but was really a dangerous machine.

## History

### Creation of the Empire

**BT-1** was designed to look like an astromech droid in order to fool others, and was designed to carry with him a variety of weapons. He killed the staff of the Tarkin Initiative base in which he was created and then continued to set the base to self-destruct before jettisoning himself into space. He was found by the rogue archaeologist Doctor Aphra, who could not reactivate the assassin droid as she did not use the R&D language the droid was programmed to understand. After Aphra reactivated the protocol droid 0-0-0, a droid capable of understanding the language, she had the protocol droid turn BT-1 on. Instead of giving the two droids to the Droid Gotra, as she had originally been hired to do, the archaeologist put them in the service of Sith-Lord Darth Vader, who tracked Aphra down to demand her services in creating a personal army for himself.

### Servant of Darth Vader

#### Investigating Doctor Cylo

BT-1 accompanied Aphra and Vader, together with 0-0-0, for their mission on Geonosis, where Aphra had heard of a Geonosian queen who was in control of a droid factory. The four invaded the queen's factory, stole the machine that constructed droids and quickly escaped. Not much later, a bounty hunter that Darth Vader had earlier hired, Black Krrsantan arrived, with Cylo-IV, a person who Vader was suspicious of. Vader ordered 0-0-0 to interrogate Cylo-IV and when 0-0-0 believed that he had extracted all information he could, he killed him. 0-0-0 told Vader that Cylo-IV was training the Emperor's possible future replacements for Vader and the Dark Lord set course for Cylo-IV's base. To start off his attack, Vader sent BT-1 and 0-0-0 into the base as distractions. He then attacked Cylo-IV's men from behind, with his small army of droids. As he continued into the base, Vader found two twin Humans, male and female. The twins attacked him, using Lightsabers, however it was clear that they weren't Force-Sensitive. After a quick fight, the Humans were told to stop by Cylo-IV, who revealed that he was an immortal that switched to from body to body to survive.

Cylo-V introduced his replacements for Vader and as Vader was about to strike Cylo down, the Emperor revealed himself to be in their presence and asked to see what Cylo's replacements were capable of. Cylo started by showing off the twins from before, named Aiolin and Morit Astarte. He continued to show the rest of his warriors, until he decided to show their abilities by having them all fight each other to the death. Vader started by fighting against an enhanced Trandoshan, but in the middle of their fight, Morit killed the Trandoshan. Sidious stopped the fighting, wanting to use them against his own enemies instead of each other. Vader left Cylo's research station and waited for Boba Fett, the bounty hunter he had hired to find the person responsible for destroying the Death Star. Fett told Vader that he had found the person and that the two briefly fought, with the latter winning. Fett however had figured out that the person was named Luke Skywalker. Sometime later, Vader instructed Aphra to join up with a group of bounty hunters and plunder an Imperial ship for credits. After sharing the credits between each other, the bounty hunters parted ways to resume their own crusades in the galaxy.

#### Hunting for Vader's Son

Vader then sent Aphra to retrieve information on Commodex Tahn, the person who buried Padmé Amidala, as Vader wanted to confirm that Padmé gave birth to Vader's son before dying. Aphra, 0-0-0 and BT-1 went to The Ante an information broker, on the Spire, who after being paid a large amount of credits, gave the three information about Tahn, including the fact that he lived on Naboo. Thereafter, they attacked Tahn's home with some of Vader's droids and then subsequently tortured and interrogated Tahn, until he confirmed that Padmé had indeed given birth to a boy, after which 0-0-0 killed him. Aphra, 0-0-0 and BT-1 soon returned to the Ante, seeking information on Skywalker's location, while BT-1 and 0-0-0 went to play holochess. The Ante quickly figured out that Aphra was one of the plunderers of the Imperial ship carrying credits, after seeing the amount of credits she was ready to give, but still gave the location of Luke. The Spire was soon attacked by Imperials who believed that one of the plunderers were there. After quickly interrogating the Ante, the Imperials learned that Aphra was one of the plunderers from before.

Aphra, BT-1 and 0-0-0 escaped the Spire, before finding themselves locked in by an Imperial blockade. Darth Vader, who was on one of the blockade ship and could not reveal that he was working with Aphra, was able to convince the Imperial Inspector Thanoth that they were wasting their time chasing a thief, when they could instead attack the newly discovered base of a rebel squadron. With the blockade gone, Aphra met up with Vader again and told him that Luke was located on Vrogas Vas. Before finding Luke, however, Vader took BT-1 and 0-0-0 with him to ore-rich planet Shu-Torun, where both the ore-dukes and the ruling family were slowly rebelling against the Imperial control. While Vader was taken to a celebration party with Princess Trios, the droids went to assassinate the King and his servants. When Vader and Trios found the bodies, Vader informed Trios that from now on, she would become the Queen and warned her that if the planet resisted the Empire, consequences would follow. Vader then sent the droids back to Aphra, while he went to Vrogas Vas.

Vader kept contact with Aphra as he arrived above the planet, but not soon after arriving, he was attacked by Rebel Alliance ships. Aphra listened as Vader's ship crashed and decided to go and save Vader, with 0-0-0 and BT-1. After landing on the planet, they found Luke Skywalker and his astromech droid R2-D2. In order to trick Luke, Aphra painted 0-0-0 yellow and tricked Luke into believing that he was C-3PO, one of Luke's allies. 0-0-0 was able to get near Luke and shock him with electricity, making him fall unconscious.[14] When he saw that he stood no chance against BT-1, R2 ran away, with BT-1 not far behind, following him. Aphra and 0-0-0 were eventually found by Han Solo and Chewbacca who demanded they let Luke go. A fight between the four broke out, while Luke was unconscious. R2 soon found Luke again, who was now conscious and the two outran BT-1. BT-1 then regrouped with 0-0-0 , who had lost both his arms, one pulled off by Chewbacca, one by Luke and found that Aphra had fallen unconscious in the fight against Han Solo.

The two droids got ready to eradicate Luke, Chewbacca, Han and R2, but as BT-1 got his weapons ready, R2 sprayed oil on him, blinding BT and resulting in him shooting everywhere, giving time for the others to escape and trapping the two droids under rubble. As soon as Aphra woke up, she helped the droids out of the rubble and ordered the droids to find and secretly follow Luke. The two soon found C-3PO, whose arms 0-0-0 took, reattached on himself and left him. When 0-0-0 and BT found Luke, they saw that he was fighting Imperial troops, however they knew that Vader didn't take any troops with him. They were then contacted by Aphra who told them that General Karbin, one of Cylo-V's replacements for Vader, had arrived on the planet to capture Luke himself. Aphra told the droids to protect Luke from the troops in any way possible. However their protection wasn't enough, as Luke was captured by Karbin anyway. Luke was taken aboard Karbin's ship, as Vader watched it fly away. Not accepting Karbin's victory, Vader used the Force to crash the ship.

Luke was found again by Han, Chewbacca, R2 and 3PO, before the group was approached by Aphra, who informed the group that they were standing on a minefield and threatened to kill them all if they didn't allow themselves to be captured. As they began dropping their weapons, Leia knocked Aphra unconscious from behind. The rebels took Aphra with them on their ship and left the planet. After delivering Karbin's dead body to his master, Vader was ordered to accompany Cylo-V and his warriors for their return to Shu-Torun, after the resistance on the planet became too unbearable. After arriving, Vader met with bounty hunters Black Krrsantan, Zuckuss, IG-90, Dengar, Chanath Cha, Beebox and C-21 Highsinger and told them to find and return Aphra to him. Not much time went by before Beebox returned to Vader with a disintegrated body, claiming that he had killed her, however Vader quickly saw through Beebox's lie and killed him for it. While Vader was away, 0-0-0 and BT-1 gave some of the droids the ability to suck blood, despite Vader's orders not to.

The droids used this ability in their battle against Baron Rubix's soldiers, easily making their foes surrender out of fear. Vader soon learned of the two droids' actions, but had no time to care, as he had to use this chance to attack Rubix's citadel. After the execution of Rubix, Vader and his droids left it up to Queen Trios to defeat the now-weakened rebellion on the planet. Arriving back on a Star Destroyer, Vader explained to his two droids that before the attack on Rubix's citadel, Vader had been attacked by Cylo-V's two twin warriors, Aiolin and Morit, and that Morit had killed Aiolin in the fight. He also told the two that Cylo-V and the rest of his warriors had revealed themselves to be traitors, as they had aided the ore-dukes. Vader reported to his master, who ordered him back to Coruscant, as Darth Sidious wanted to explain everything going on with Cylo-V, but before leaving, Vader was contacted by Thanoth, a former inspector and traitor of the Empire, who informed Vader that he had found Aphra.