EV-9D9

EV-9D9 (Eve-Ninedenine), also known simply as 9D9, Eve, or by the nicknames Queen of Durasteel and Mistress of Mayhem, was a feminine MerenData EV-series supervisor droid who, originally a peaceful, hardworking moisture vaporator mechanic, had a programming defect that made her enjoy tormenting and dismembering other droids. She was acquired by the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, who, after reprogramming her, made her chief of cyborg operations at his palace on the planet Tatooine, where she oversaw its droid pool with the assistance of her smelter droid devotee, 8D8. Operating in a chamber beneath the palace, she used torture to perform research on droids in the hopes of understanding artificial intelligence.

Around 3 ABY, while attempting to torture an interpreter droid called Talky, EV-9D9 was infected by the malevolent intelligence known as the Scourge and became one of its vessels. While controlled by the Scourge, she participated in the Scourge's experiments on organic beings to try and infect them as well. She helped subdue and infect the hybroid Lobot in her very own torture chamber.

After the Scourge threat, in 4 ABY, Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker gifted Jabba the astromech droid R2-D2 and protocol droid C-3PO, both of whom EV-9D9 assigned positions in her master's droid pool. During a conversation with R2-D2 in which he revealed to her that he had never had his memory wiped, EV-9D9 realized that the key to artificial intelligence and achieving autonomy was memory and that being memory wiped consistently was preventing her from acting outside of her programming. For the first time in her life, she resisted hurting another droid and allowed R2-D2 to perform his service without placing a restraining bolt on him. Having been challenged by R2-D2 to do good and fight for her independence, EV-9D9 coded and inserted a signal jammer in her head to deflect memory wipes and performed self-surgery to make herself immune to the effects of restraining bolts.

EV-9D9 was temporarily deactivated and repurposed as a service droid after Jabba's demise, coming to serve as a bartender at Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina in Tatooine's Mos Eisley spaceport. In 9 ABY, Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin entered the establishment looking for work, but the droid informed him that the Bounty Hunters' Guild no longer operated from Tatooine and that no jobs were available. While working at the cantina, EV-9D9 once broke a long streak of not hurting others to poison a customer who kicked her coworker, the astromech R5-D4. She and R5 quickly left and walked together to Mos Eisley's Hangar 3-5.

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