Forfive, formally designated JJ-5145, functioned as a logistics droid and provided service to the Jedi Order throughout the High Republic Era. Following Stellan Gios's dispatch of Elzar Mann to a retreat to cope with a personal difficulty, the droid was dispatched by Mann, a Knight and friend of his, to aid the Jedi Master on the Starlight Beacon. Gios, disliking the idea of being shadowed by a droid, surmised that Forfive's arrival was a prank orchestrated by an annoyed Mann.