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**GA-97** was an unassuming servant droid aligned with the Resistance around thirty years after the Battle of Endor. It was present in the castle of the pirate Maz Kanata on the planet Takodana when the smuggler Han Solo entered with the scavenger Rey, the former Storm Trooper Finn and the astromech droid BB-8. Recognizing BB-8 as the missing droid of Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, GA-97 contacted the Resistance via their intelligence network to inform them of the astromech's location. Based on the droid's report, Resistance forces were mobilized to travel to Takodana, but before they arrived the patron's of the castle were drawn outside by the destruction of the Hosnian system by the First Order's Starkiller Base superweapon. The castle was then destroyed in an attack by the First Order, who were soon confronted by the Resistance forces and driven off Takodana.

## History

### At Maz's Castle

**GA-97** was a servant droid that was aligned with the Resistance during their conflict with the First Order and plugged into their intelligence network. The droid was spending time in the castle of the pirate Maz Kanata on the planet Takodana, when the smuggler Han Solo led a group of three fugitives from the First Order into the structure. Kanata, an old friend of Solo's, recognized the smuggler shortly after he entered and cried out to him, causing everyone in the castle to turn their attention to the new-comers including GA-97 and those seated at the fighting droid table he was sat against. After the crowd lost interest, GA-97 turned his attention to the Dengue sisters, a group of three Culisettos gambling on a table nearby.

### Sending the Word Out

The sisters' game was interrupted when the dismembered arm of the junk dealer Unkar Plutt landed on their table, having been tossed by the Wookiee Chewbacca after he tore it off defending the scavenger Rey, one of Solo's companions. The sisters tossed the arm away absently and continued with the gambling, but GA-97's attention was drawn to Rey and then her companion, the astromech droid BB-8. Recognizing the astromech as a missing Resistance droid, an internal sequence was activated inside GA-97 which triggered him to send out a compressed signal that was bounced around, coded, decoded, encrypted, and then sent into deep space. The signal was then picked up by the protocol droid C-3PO in the Resistance base on the planet D'Qar. Overjoyed, C-3PO relayed the message that BB-8 was on Takodana to General Leia Organa, who then left for Takodana to collect the droid.

### Fall of Maz's Castle

Before the Resistance could arrive, the occupants of Kanata's castle were drawn outside by the sound of the First Order's Starkiller Base firing at the Hosnian system. In the castle's courtyard they stood and watched as it destroyed the whole star system, and the Galactic Senate of the New Republic with it. Almost immediately after the horrific spectacle was over, the First Order attacked the castle and quickly destroyed it. Those that survived the destruction were then spared, when the Resistance arrived and fought off the First Order's troops, driving them off world. Unfortunately for GA-97, his body was greatly damaged during the First Order's assault, but his memory core remained mostly intact. C-3PO discovered GA-97's mangled body and upon remembering the horrific ordeals he had to suffer on the day he lost one of his arms, chose to thank the droid who told him where to find BB-8 by holding onto his memory core until a new body could be found.

## Characteristics

GA-97 was an unassuming droid with masculine programming. He had a bipedal body, with a power plant in its chest and collapsible legs to allow for compact storage. It had black sensors and red, yellow and green plating. When reporting to the Resistance, GA-97 spoke in an alien dialect.