C-3TC

C-3TC was a C-series protocol droid who belonged at the time of the Battle of Yavin to Valance Serth, a Human male native to Corellia. The droid could speak over 1.5 million forms of communication and described himself as excellent in facilitating diplomacy. However, the C-3TC was very talkative, including about topics that his master would prefer to conceal.

In 1 ABY, Valance Serth discovered that the Black Sun criminal syndicate was intending to take the opportunity of a deadly outbreak of Ourim Flu to make money. Black Sun planned to taint a major shipment of medicinal spice to addict the sick people to their chemicals. However, Black Sun quickly found out that Serth had unveiled its scheme. A short time later, Valance Serth had to travel from Corellia to Naboo where C-3TC was waiting for him. Black Sun was unable to find Serth on Corellia but the criminals tracked C-3TC to the Nabooian city of Moenia. They interrogated the droid who was eager to disclose everything they wanted to known about his master, including his planned trip from Corellia to Naboo. Black Sun promptly set up an ambush and attacked Valance Serth's shuttle in Corellian space. Serth was hurt while crash-landing in the wilderness of the planet Talus but he survived. Black Sun henchmen immediately pursued him on the planet.

Meanwhile, on Naboo, C-3TC was worried because his master never arrived in Moenia. He eventually requested the help of a group of spacers who accepted to help him to find Serth. The spacers questioned Selan Ellison in the Moenia Starport, Naboo, and then Amarent Loren of the Corellian Port Authority in the Tyrena Starport, Corellia. They finally discovered that Valance Serth had crashed on Talus and decided to search for him. Fortunately for Serth, the spacers found him at the very same time than Black Sun henchmen and were able to eliminate the criminals. Valance Serth was grateful for the rescue but he was worry because there was no much time left to stop the Black Sun. Once again, the spacers accepted to help. They attacked a Black Sun camp in Shadowbrak Ridge where the tainted spice was processed but it was too late to prevent the vessel transporting the spice to take off. The spacers soon launched into Corellian space and intercepted the Black Sun convoy. They attacked the criminal starships and succeeded in destroying the transport and the spice. The victorious spacers later came back to Serth who asked a last favor: wipe C-3TC's memory to prevent the droid to provide any information that could harm his master. The spacers later returned to Moenia where the droid was still waiting for his master and commanded him to run a memory wipe program. C-3TC obeyed and eventually forgot every memories of Valance Serth.

C-3TC was a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011. C-3TC was added to the game with the release of the "Publish 21," on August 4, 2005.

C-3TC would at one point appear silver in color, but was later updated to permanently appear red. This red appearance was further corroborated by the "Quest Highlights" Friday Feature.

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