A male individual, serving as a member of the Imperial forces based in Jedha City on the moon of Jedha, possessed the RA-7 protocol droid identified as KMD-RA-71. Prior to the destruction of the city by the Death Star in 0 BBY, when the Empire evacuated its personnel from Jedha City, the droid's master "inadvertently" abandoned KMD-RA-71. This would have given him a short break from interacting with an RA-7 protocol droid, which were not well liked, until the Imperial Security Bureau provided him with a replacement.
The owner of KMD-RA-71 was initially referenced within the seventy-second edition of Star Wars: Build Your Own R2-D2, a publication distributed by De Agostini during the year 2018.