Around 18 BBY, RX-48 was free from service to a master, and offered his skills for hire—marketing himself as "the cheapest of the best." That year, he was hired by disgraced Imperial officer Visler Korda to pilot the stolen prototype scout ship Star Herald to the Xala system. They clumsily shot down the Whisper Bird, the Graf family where it crashed on an ice moon. While trying to hunt the vessel, the Star Herald was boarded by snowtroopers who shot the droid.
RX-48 first appeared in Cavan Scott's Adventures in Wild Space: The Cold, the fifth entry in the Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space junior novel series. He was named after Scott's late father-in-law, whose name was Rex and whose birth year was 1948.
RX-48 first appeared in Cavan Scott's Adventures in Wild Space: The Cold, the fifth entry in the Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space junior novel series. He was named after Scott's late father-in-law, whose name was Rex and whose birth year was 1948.