T1-LB

Long before the Great Sith War, Kellenech Technologies manufactured the T1 series droid, designated as a fifth-degree droid. T1-LB was a member of the T1 subtype, specifically the LB droid series, where "LB" stood for "loader, bulk." The droid's imposing size, resilience, and absence of a vocabulator underscored its design for demanding, manual labor. Given its robust construction, T1-LB performed its designated tasks for several decades until its programming led it to serve the Academy situated on Taris.

In 3964 BBY, the five Jedi Masters stationed at the Jedi Academy selected T1-LB to accompany them to Taris's Rogue Moon. Their intention was to deploy a portable magnetic shield to protect against the constant meteor impacts on the moon's surface. This was ostensibly while the Masters waited for their Jedi Padawans to navigate through the meteor storm, a final test before becoming Jedi Knights. In reality, these five Masters were also part of a secret organization within the Jedi Order known as the Jedi Covenant, dedicated to proactively preventing the return of the Jedi's ancient adversaries, the Sith. Four of the Masters constituted the First WatchCircle, serving as the Covenant's primary seers. On the moon, these four experienced a vision of their own deaths and witnessed the galaxy consumed by flames, along with a figure clad in a red environment suit. At the time of the vision, each of their Padawans wore a red suit while using the Force to navigate to the camp. Therefore, the Masters concluded that one of them would trigger the Sith's resurgence and endanger the galaxy. Lucien Draay, the liaison between the First WatchCircle and the Covenant, decided to eliminate all five of their students in response to the vision, particularly after discovering that T1-LB had overheard their entire discussion about the prophecy and the Padawans. Draay commanded the droid to walk off a cliff on the moon, using the Force to accelerate its descent, resulting in T1-LB's destruction upon impact.

The droid's remains remained on the surface for several days until Zayne Carrick, one of the Padawans stationed on Taris, arrived. He had miraculously escaped his Masters after they killed his four classmates and attempted to kill him as well. Carrick's unplanned escape led the Jedi Masters to blame him for the other Padawans' deaths, making him a fugitive. While on the run, Carrick sought to understand his Masters' motives, retracing his steps to the moon where he discovered T1-LB. Carrick, suspecting that T1-LB's fall from the cliff was not accidental as his Masters had claimed, transported the droid's remains to The Last Resort, his temporary sanctuary. Gorman Vandrayk, an inventor and fellow fugitive known as Camper, repaired T1-LB and added enhancements, including a vocabulator and holographic projector. Carrick then reviewed T1-LB's recording and audio of his Masters' plot to murder their students in order to prevent their vision of the future. However, the droid's destruction at Lucien Draay's hands exceeded T1-LB's logical comprehension, corrupting its motivation center. Consequently, upon completion of the hologram recording, the droid erased the entire holographic memory segment. Camper suggested shutting the droid down, but Carrick declined, stating that the droid had provided him with the information he needed to understand why he was a fugitive, even if he was unsure how to use it. Soon after, Valius Ying, a bounty hunter, captured Carrick, T1-LB, and their temporary companions Camper, the Arkanian fugitive Jarael, and the Tarisian crime lord Marn Hierogryph. To protect the others, Carrick offered to surrender to the bounty hunter without resistance. In response to Carrick's sacrifice, Camper, Jarael, and Hierogryph devised a plan to rescue Carrick using T1-LB's schematics of the Jedi Tower. Following the successful rescue, T1-LB departed from Taris aboard The Last Resort with Carrick.

To evade the reach of the law, The Last Resort traveled to the war front where Mandalorian and Republic forces were engaged in a stalemate. As their supplies dwindled, the fugitives could no longer remain hidden and they raided a mining colony on Vanquo. Hierogryph instructed T1-LB to generate sound effects mimicking a Mandalorian attack to scare the miners away from their outpost. The ruse was successful. However, shortly after, the Mandalorians launched an actual attack and captured Jarael. Carrick told T1-LB that Draay would locate the droid if it did not carry Camper and retreat with them to The Last Resort to escape. However, the Mandalorian, Rohlan Dyre, arrived at the landing site before them and commandeered their starship. T1-LB and the others managed to board the ship before it left the planet, but the landing ramp closed on the droid's hand. During the ensuing struggle on board, Zayne informed T1-LB that Dyre was responsible for the loss of his hand, prompting the droid to end the conflict by pinning the Mandalorian down with its weight. Thanks to Jarael's homing beacon, Camper was able to chart a course to her location, the former stellar research station known as Flashpoint Station, which had recently been captured by the Mandalorians. Carrick learned from Dyre that the location was also the research facility of the Mandalorian scientist Demagol, where all captured Jedi were taken. Together, they devised a plan to liberate Jarael and the captive Jedi.

Upon landing at the station, T1-LB remained inside the ship while the Mandalorians searched the vessel. Subsequently, the droid discreetly dropped a bag of mining charges just outside the starship, which Carrick later placed in strategic locations around the camp. When the mining charges began detonating, the Mandalorians fled, believing that the Republic had planted the charges and were initiating a counterattack. After freeing the Jedi, T1-LB departed with Carrick, Hierogryph, Jarael, and Camper for Telerath. Hierogryph intended to access one of his accounts on the planet and use the funds to provide Jarael and Camper with an opportunity to establish new lives on their own.

When Carrick and Hierogryph separated from Jarael and Camper on Ralltiir, T1-LB stayed to assist the latter two fugitives, for example by loading the new hyperdrive components for The Last Resort. Shortly after their departure, a HK-24 series assassin droid emerged from a container in the cargo hold, sent by Camper's former employer Adascorp to abduct the brilliant former scientist and return him to the company to complete his last project. Both T1-LB and Jarael attempted to stop the assassin droid, but the bulk loader droid sustained [blaster](/article/blaster-legends] fire from HK-24. Jarael also nearly met her end until Rohlan Dyre emerged from his hiding place to blast the droid from behind.

Following the attack, Camper's already fragile health deteriorated further. Jarael felt compelled to seek help on Arkania, despite Adascorp's presence. However, the company cornered Jarael when she tried to obtain a diagnosis for Camper's illness in a hospital, and Adascorp's mobile corporate base, the Arkanian Legacy, captured The Last Resort in space, along with T1-LB. Arkoh Adasca, owner of Adascorp, arranged a meeting of Republic, Jedi, and Mandalorian forces aboard the Arkanian Legacy to negotiate over enormous creatures known as exogorths. Adasca hoped that, once Camper completed his work on the creatures, the buyers could use them as weapons, allowing him to wield galactic influence. However, Zayne Carrick, who arrived with the Republic delegation, helped organize and execute a plan to halt Adasca's scheme. When Camper escaped his guards, he remotely guided The Last Resort to his location outside the Arkanian Legacy, leaving T1-LB behind. While Jarael searched for a starship in the hangar, she found the droid, at which point Camper sent her a holographic message through T1-LB. He informed her that he needed to leave her for a while to lead the exogorths deep into space. T1-LB pleaded with Camper not to go, but Camper insisted that the droid stay, assuring him that he would be in good hands. As the transmission ended, Jarael, overwhelmed by Camper's departure, tearfully embraced the droid. As the Arkanian Legacy began to disintegrate from the exogorths' attack, the Ithorian bounty hunter Dob Moomo and Trandoshan starship thief Slyssk rescued T1-LB, Jarael, Carrick, Dyre, and the Jedi representative Alek Squinquargesimus.

Soon after, Zayne Carrick successfully confronted the Covenant and cleared his name of all charges. However, T1-LB remained incapacitated since the events on the Arkanian Legacy. Carrick hoped that news of its former master's death would revive the droid, but T1-LB remained motionless aboard Carrick's new ship, the Hot Prospect. Nevertheless, Carrick insisted on continuing to care for the droid while embarking on new adventures with Jarael, Rohlan, Slyssk, and Hierogryph. Carrick decided to leave the Jedi Order and assist in Hierogryph's cons, as long as they targeted those who deserved justice.

Their journey led them to the abandoned luxury starship Chancellor Fillorean, adrift in space. Upon entering, Carrick and his companions discovered several deceased beings, a lone Bimm named Toki Tollivar, and his droid, K-OB7. This droid was of the same manufacturer as T1-LB, and upon their encounter, T1-LB emerged from its stupor and began assisting in sorting the dead bodies. Through further interaction, K-OB7 calmed T1-LB when the droid expressed its confusion about morality since Lucien Draay, his own master, had attempted to destroy him. Meanwhile, Rohlan and Carrick discovered that the dead humans and aliens had been strangled. Furthermore, Slyssk nearly died after his throat was crushed, leading Carrick to confront K-OB7. In protest, T1-LB defended his fellow droid, giving K-OB7 the opportunity to explain that he and his master had been surrounded by mysterious deaths for years. Carrick then realized that Tollivar was the real killer and that Jarael was alone with him. He and Rohlan rushed to find Tollivar, revealed as a former Sith adept, who was crushing Jarael's throat with the Force. A brief lightsaber duel ensued between the two Force users, ending with Tollivar and K-OB7's deaths at Rohlan's blaster fire.

These events troubled Carrick, and shortly after, he met with T1-LB aboard the Hot Prospect. Alone with the droid, Carrick expressed all the thoughts weighing on his mind: Rohlan's perplexing behavior, Jarael's unknown past, Slyssk's loss of confidence, and his own secrets that he kept from his companions, even Hierogryph. Carrick disliked his own committed silence, but he knew he could confide in T1-LB and that the droid would understand. Carrick offered his friendship to T1-LB and promised to listen to anything the droid had to say.

When the crew of the Hot Prospect became entangled with the dealings of the Franchise on Jervo's World, T1-LB took his place in the waste disposal section, forcing his way into his post and throwing a newer generation loader droid into a garbage bin. T1-LB pushed his bin to prepare to smuggle Goethar Kleej and his son off the station.

Before T1-LB's involvement in the Padawan Massacre of Taris, the droid possessed minimal personality and mechanically obeyed the Jedi Masters' orders. However, after being repaired and receiving a brain upgrade and speech processor, the droid exhibited a stubborn and occasionally irritable personality. The droid often refused to move, fearing a repeat of its near-destruction. Carrick and Jarael discovered that T1-LB was best motivated by reverse psychology and references to Lucien Draay. For instance, when Carrick and his companions raided the mining outpost on Vanquo, Hierogryph needed to tell T1-LB that Draay was inside the outpost to prompt the droid to create the sound effects for a mock Mandalorian attack.

T1-LB was conceived by John Jackson Miller, with his first confirmed appearance in Knights of the Old Republic 3.

On his personal website, John Jackson Miller has indicated that T1-LB is loosely inspired by Herman Melville's character Bartleby the Scrivener.

Given that the LB designation signifies the primary function of this specific subtype within the T1 model, the entire droid line is referred to as T1-LB.