Eightyem was a protocol droid who served as the interpreter of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, a Hutt crime lord who led his own criminal empire, until he angered his master and was disintegrated. Shortly before the Rescue of Han Solo in 4 ABY, EV-9D9, the supervisor of Jabba's Palace's droid pool, supervised the torture of the old droid when R2-D2 and C-3PO, Jabba's new interpreter, reported to her. EV-9D9 told C-3PO of his predecessor's fate and gestured towards the droid. C-3PO was horrified to witness the droid on a vertical torture rack that stretched its manacled limbs further than they could extend, causing the droid to scream in pain as its arms and legs were slowly pulled off.
Eigthtyem first appeared, albeit unidentified, in the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, the final installment of the Star Wars original trilogy. The character was later identified in a preview article on StarWars.com for the comic Return of the Jedi – Jabba's Palace 1, that was published on March 22, 2023.
A CZ-series droid dumped near the doorway of the torture chamber.
The 2015 young-readers novelization Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! written by Tom Angleberger, originally identified the droid as a separate character to the droid shown in the film and that his remains had been dumped near the door of a furnace in her torture chamber. A CZ-series droid, having been dumped besides the doorway, appears during the events of Return of the Jedi. "The Key to Remembering," a short story written by Olivia Chadha as part of the 2023 anthology From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, indicates Jabba's previous interpreter was melted down in a pool of acid and separately identifies the droid present on the torture rack as a courier droid.