Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens provide the backstory of the extremely sadistic droid EV-9D9 in their co-written short story "A Bad Feeling: The Tale of EV-9D9". The story appeared in Tales from Jabba's Palace, published December 1995 by Bantam Spectra.
Plot summary
The sadistic droid EV-9D9 breaks free from the detention area of Cloud City. Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian tries to prevent her escape with help from his aide Lobot, the security officer Sarl Random, and a traffic droid designated 12-4C-41. They fail, and EV-9D9 escapes on the Iopene Princess, leaving a swath of mechanical mayhem in her wake.
Years later, EV-9D9 is working as Jabba's droid supervisor, delighting in torturing her subjects and modifying them with devices to ensure they feel pain. Two new droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, are brought to her and she gives them assignments. After they leave, she becomes suspicious. She eventually discovers that Lando Calrissian has infiltrated the palace under the pseudonym Tamtel Skreej. She assumes that the droids are part of a plot of Lando's to recapture her. She plans to cover her tracks and leave Tatooine, but is attacked by an unknown figure. She assumes it is Lando, but it turns out to be 12-4C-41, seeking vengeance for the torture and destruction of his "brothers" on Cloud City. 12-4C-41 releases the mangled droids that EV-9D9 has tortured so they can take revenge on her, tearing her apart. He also removes her pain simulator, so she cannot take twisted pleasure from her own destruction.
Continuity
The droid 12-4C-41's name is a reference to a 1911 science fiction novel by Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+, an alphanumeric pun meaning "one to foresee for one." Measuring all fictional accounts as equal, this is the third time the Expanded Universe has jeopardized Cloud City with wide-scale destruction during Lando's tenure as baron administrator. In the Marvel Comic series, Ugnaught insurrectionists detonate explosives that cause the city's antigravity generators to sputter in Coffin in the Clouds, Star Wars #56 (1982). In the roleplaying game module Crisis on Cloud City (1989), the droid intelligence X0-X1 nearly succeeds with a mechanical coup that remarkably resembles Ninedenine's botched usurpation.[3]
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