TT-8L gatekeeper droid
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- "The overcoat is a nice touch, but white pants with toumon boots? Come back when your eyespots can perceive style."
- ―Glambot, an obnoxious TT-8L gatekeeper at Coruscant's Club Caraveg[src]
Once constructed by Serv-O-Droid, Inc. for wealthy citizens and entrepreneurs, the TT-8L gatekeeper droid, nicknamed the "tattletale", was made to be the perfect surveillance system.
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[edit] Characteristics
Essentially, the droid was an electronic eye on a stalk. The "tattletale" was placed near a door and could poke its "eye" through a peep-hole in the door. It could then ask its master if it should admit a visitor or keep the visitor at the door. Many people considered it to be one of the most annoying droid models.
[edit] History
Jabba Desilijic Tiure used a sadistic TT-8L/Y7 to guard the gate to his palace on Tatooine. It would let R2-D2 and C-3PO into the palace in 4 ABY, who were delivering a message from Luke Skywalker.
A similar one guarded Ka'Pa's palace and didn't allow Mara Jade audience. Mara had to be disguised to a Tusken Raider in order to fool the droid.
One also appeared guarding Brogar's on Socorro but appeared to be controlled by a Gotal at the door.
Captain Neg also had one TT-8L/Y7 droid guarding the door of his residence in Mos Eisley in 32 BBY. While he was hunting Banthas in the Dune Sea, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn tried to enter the house and rescue a local Ithorian boy named Tomo. The droid didn't let the Jedi enter the house, instead activating the security turrets near the gates, which forced Jinn to enter via a balcony.
[edit] Variants
The deluxe TT-8L/XSS was originally the most popular variant until the arrival of the TT-8L/Y7. The Y7 could scan for weapons and was installed in the door frame itself.
[edit] Appearances
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace game
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Rookies"
- The Clone Wars: The Fall of Falleen
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Downfall of a Droid"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Lair of Grievous"
- Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
- A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale webstrip
- Galaxy of Fear: Ghost of the Jedi
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 1: In the Hands of Jabba the Hutt
- Zorba the Hutt's Revenge
- Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast
- Planet of Twilight
- Star Wars Legacy 2: Broken, Part 2
