The hover guards, sometimes written as hoverguard, comprised a line of sentry droids manufactured in the initial years of the Galactic Empire's reign. They had the appearance of sizable airborne insects, with each one having a small repulsor engine to enable flight. Each hover guard had two sensor eyes situated on its frontal section, and a light stunning blaster was suspended from each of its sides. Tig Fromm, a gangster of the Annoo-dat Blue species, employed three of these droids as bodyguards.