Unidentified lab assistant

A droid served as the assistant to a scientist in his laboratory. When the scientist inadvertently created the droid personality matrix that would eventually be known as the Triple-Zero protocol personality matrix, he asked his assistant to destroy the creation. The personality matrix, intending to avoid its own destruction, inhabited the body of the droid assistant. The matrix subsequently possessed numerous different bodies, including the protocol droid 0-0-0 centuries later, who was appalled by his accidental creation upon recovering his memories.

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