An individual was a programmer who reprogrammed the LOM-series protocol droid 4-LOM. At some point, 4-LOM was assigned to a luxury liner, but a flaw in his programming allowed for his personality software to be corrupted, leading to the protocol droid overriding it. In 9 BBY, the smuggler Han Solo thought about the programmer, considering them a lunatic for reprogramming 4-LOM, as the droid by then worked as a bounty hunter chasing individuals such as himself.
The same year, 4-LOM recalled that his programmer once spoke to him of legends about a world where droids had risen up against their masters. 4-LOM believed the legend to be true as he fought off scorpion-droids alongside his Gand bounty hunter partner, Zuckuss, Solo, and the smuggler Chewbacca while on the world, finding the situation fascinating.
The programmer was first mentioned in the comic story "Powered Down, Part 1," published in the tenth issue of the 2017 anthology comic series Star Wars Adventures. The comic was written by Cavan Scott and published by IDW Publishing on May 9, 2018.
The programmer was first mentioned in the comic story "Powered Down, Part 1," published in the tenth issue of the 2017 anthology comic series Star Wars Adventures. The comic was written by Cavan Scott and published by IDW Publishing on May 9, 2018.