HELIOS-3D

**HELIOS-3D**, or simply **3D**, was an IG-86 sentinel droid bounty hunter, who joined Cad Bane on Coruscant during the Republic Senate Building hostage siege, an operation to rescue Ziro Desilijic Tiure from Republic imprisonment.

## History

### The Clone Wars

3D was part of Cad Bane's posse and took part in the operation to free Ziro the Hutt from Republic custody in 21 BBY. His job was to escort Senator Orn Free Taa to the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center with a pardon disc authorizing Ziro's release. They traveled in an airspeeder towing a sled for the Hutt behind it. When Ziro was released and boarded the transport, 3D piloted it back to the Senate Building, where the rest of the team, including Cad Bane, Aurra Sing, Shahan Alama, and Robonino boarded the craft and left the crime scene unhindered.

After the successful rescue of Ziro, the group descended into the lower levels of Coruscant where Bane instructed the members of the posse to disappear somewhere the Republic wouldn't find them. 3D traveled to Iego and hid on the wreckage of an abandoned *Munificent*-class star frigate left by the Confederacy of Independent Systems in a section of Iego's orbit known as "the Thicket." The droid managed to reactivate and reprogram several Vulture droid starfighters left behind when the Separatists abandoned the system as well as part of the LaserWeb Defense Station that had been previously deactivated by Jedi Generals Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

When Jaybo Hood, a resident of Iego, noticed activity in the skies over Iego, he launched several probes into orbit to find out what he was seeing. All of his probes stopped transmitting data at which point Hood notified the Jedi fearing a return of the Separatists. Master Yoda dispatched Skywalker and Kenobi to verify the reports. 3D was actually the one intercepting and reprogramming the probes, including the unmanned drones the Republic was sending into the Thicket. After two clone pilots and their starfighters were destroyed while searching the Thicket, more V-19 Torrent starfighters were launched and managed to eliminate the remaining droid forces. Skywalker, Kenobi, and Hood ventured into the debris field aboard *Twilight* and discovered the abandoned *Munificent*-class frigate housing 3D.

The three Humans found the deactivated shell of 3D aboard the bridge of the frigate and Hood asked if he could salvage the droid. Skywalker refused to state they had to study the dangerous droid, removing and taking the head with them.

### Age of the New Republic

By the time of the New Republic Era, 3D was back in one piece once again operating as a bounty hunter. Around 5 ABY he took an interest in collecting one of the late Darth Sidious' lightsabers, which Boba Fett had obtained from Vizsla Keep 09. 3D was piloting the *AA-4D*, and the droid tried to take Sidious' lightsaber for himself from Fett. The two engaged in a fierce dogfight in space, and Boba used *Slave I*'s laser cannons to inflict heavy damage on the *AA-4D*. With his ship heavily damaged, HELIOS-3D was forced to withdraw.

Around 7 ABY, 3D was present outside a cantina in the Ring of Kafrene when Boba Fett entered with the intent to capture his target.

In 9 ABY, 3D joined the Second Union, subsequently serving as an enforcer and muscle for their forces on Tatooine. During the War for Tatooine, after Boba Fett, now the Daimyo of Mos Espa, attacked Station Bravo, 3D and Commander Welch confronted the departing crime lord in the desert outside the station in an attempt to kill him; the duo arrived on a damaged AAT. The trio stared each other down, resulting in everyone eventually drawing with Fett destroying 3D, while Welch discovered that his blaster was jammed. Fett told Welch that Tatooine was his, and he would not abandon his people. After this, Fett used his blaster carbine to shoot Welch in the face before he could react, killing him. The Daimyo left, leaving the bodies of 3D and Welch to wither away in the sand.

## Trivia

* In "The Believer," the part where 3D and Welch engage in a standoff with Boba Fett in the Tatooine desert is a reference to the iconic scene in *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* where Blondie, Tuco, and Angel Eyes have a standoff in the graveyard, where all three of them ultimately draw their guns.

## Appearances

* The Enormous Profit (First appearance)
* Bounty
* Invaders on Their Land
* The Believer