RX-8 modulator

"The modulator controls the signals that make the leg move. If we can get a complete diagram of its circuitry our people might be able to come up with a device that will jam or disrupt those control signals. If we can do that ... well those things hit the ground pretty hard."

―Droma Ordo, to a spacer^[1]

RX-8 modulators were used in the legs of Imperial AT-ATs to control the signals that made the legs move.^[1]

In 1 ABY,^[2] the Rebel Alliance was looking into developing jamming devices that could interfere with the AT-AT's locomotion. When Droma Ordo learned that people working for Lady Valarian had recovered the leg of an AT-AT, he sent a Rebel agent to infiltrate the Valarian Depot and remove the modulator from the leg to analyze its circuitry. The schematics were sent back to Ordo.^[1]

Behind the scenes

RX-8 modulators appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,^[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.^[3]

Appearances

Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) (First appearance)

Notes and references

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Modulator Retrieval" on Tatooine
↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
↑ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

[SWG:MR-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Modulator Retrieval" on Tatooine

[SWG_timeline-2] The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.

[Shutdown-3] IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

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