The remote of Bao-Dur was a droid remote crafted by the Zabrak during his youngling years. This device was designed to shadow Bao-Dur relentlessly. Over time, Bao-Dur enhanced its capabilities, equipping it with a laser capable of repairing droids, such as HK-47, G0-T0, and T3-M4, and inflicting damage on adversaries. G0-T0 harbored an immediate and inexplicable aversion to the Remote, potentially due to perceiving it as "inefficient" in its resource utilization. When Meetra Surik journeyed to Malachor V, Bao-Dur had already programmed his Remote to locate the Mass Shadow Generator, his creation from the final conflict of the Mandalorian Wars, possessing the destructive power to obliterate Malachor V. Bao-Dur's programming instructed the Remote to reactivate the Mass Shadow Generator by harnessing the engines of starships that had crashed on the planet's surface during the Battle of Malachor V a decade prior, with the intent of annihilating the world. G0-T0, determined to prevent Malachor V's destruction, seized the Remote, having secretly reprogrammed it. However, HK-47 arrived accompanied by an HK-51 series assassin droid and eliminated G0-T0. Following Surik's defeat of Darth Traya, she commanded the Remote to obliterate the planet. Surik and her comrades escaped aboard the Ebon Hawk moments before the planet's implosion, but the Remote was forced to remain behind to activate the device and was presumed to have been destroyed in the cataclysm.
The confrontation between Bao-Dur's Remote and G0-T0 on Malachor V was originally intended to be more extensive, with HK-47 and the HK-51s interrupting their exchange. Depending on Surik's moral alignment, HK would either have destroyed G0-T0 or blasted the Remote. The conclusion in which HK-47 and the HK-51's destroyed G0-T0 was later declared canonical within The New Essential Guide to Droids.
During a comm transmission from Atton Rand on Peragus, Surik has the option of referring to the maintenance droids as sensor balls. Should this option be selected, Rand will deliver his dialogue, but instead of displaying a maintenance droid, a remote resembling Bao-Dur's will be shown. Furthermore, the training remotes present aboard the Ebon Hawk during the prologue share a similar appearance.