- "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
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: Starter Kit (First appearance)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3
Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit — Quest: "Modulator Retrieval" on Tatooine
- ↑ According to its opening crawl, Star Wars Galaxies was set sometime after Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The only precise time indication in the game was given by the character Ruwan Tokai, who referenced the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin as occurring one year earlier, placing the game sometime around 1 ABY. Later, multiple elements confirmed the placement of the game storyline in 1 ABY. First, The Essential Reader's Companion established that the tie-in novel Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine took place in 1 ABY. Furthermore, the game expansion Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees was set during the Blockade of Kashyyyk, one year after the Battle of Yavin according to The Star Wars Holiday Special. Additionally, the main scenario of The Nightsister's Revenge from the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game was set over a year before the Battle of Hoth (3 ABY), so around 1.5 ABY. Finally, the reference book Strongholds of Resistance placed the events of Star Wars Galaxies's Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" one year after the Battle of Yavin. Of note, Galaxies's Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" introduced the Battle of Hoth in the game. However, the developers were quite clear that this was only intended to be a completely isolated "Star Wars Moment" without any effect on continuity for the rest of the game.
- ↑
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)