Name: 264
Type: Industrial Automaton R4 Astromech Droid
Degree: 2nd Degree
Class: Astromech Droid
Sensor Color: Red
Plating Color: Black, White, Red
Gender: Masculine Programming
Personality Module: Elementary
DEXTERITY 2D
KNOWLEDGE 2D
Languages 3D
MECHANICAL 3D
Repulsorlift Operation 4D
PERCEPTION 2D
Search 3D
STRENGTH 2D
TECHNICAL 3D
Computer Programming/Repair 4D+2
Droid Repair 4D
Repulsorlift Repair 5D
Security 4D
Equipped With:
• Three wheeled legs (one retractable)
• Internal comlink
• Holoprojector
• Photoreceptor with infrared vision (can see in the dark up to 30 meters)
• Internal storage (extra space available for 8 kilograms of storage or upgrades)
• 4 tool mounts (has four appendages that have tools attached to them)
• Acoustic signaler
Move: 8
Size: 1 meter tall
Cost: 2,500
Background: 264 was a readapted R4 astromech droid working as a communications courier for the Imperial Press Corps of the Galactic Empire. The crew of the Ghost took the droid prisoner so their droid, Chopper, could pose as a courier. The rebels considered keeping him, but Chopper threw him out of the Ghost.
After the destruction of the Imperial Communications Center on the Outer Rim planet Lothal, the Galactic Empire resorted to using droids to relay communication across the planet and into orbit. One such droid was 264, tasked with bringing messages from Lothal to a communications cruiser. The rebel crew of the Ghost, hoping to find out the location of their captured leader, Kanan Jarrus, decided to disguise their droid, C1-10P—also known as Chopper—as a communications droid. They stole 264 from the Empire as the droid was being transported to the Imperial shuttle Lagos, and Chopper was made to look like 264.
Later, when Chopper was attempting to escape from the cruiser after discovering Jarrus’ location, the Ghost opened fire on the cruiser. The Ghost was also hit, and a fire sparked inside the ship. 264 helped put the fire out. The crew considered keeping the droid once the mission was over, but while in the atmosphere, a jealous Chopper threw 264 out of the Ghost. The droid landed unharmed in a field on Lothal and found itself in the curious company of two Loth cats.
A little time elapsed until a pair of alien farmers found 264 on the prairie, still sitting where he landed, a Loth-cat curled up on his dome. The droid then had a brief chance at a new life, pulling vegetable carts at the alien’s farm. However, the farmers were ostensibly arrested for possessing Imperial property, and 264 were removed from Lothal. He was sent to a bleak Imperial Outpost in a cold, rocky, inhospitable world. There, 264 felt abused, taken for granted, and forlorn, and he often dreamed of what his life could have been with the Spectres.
The whole base was alerted one day when a Rebel prisoner was brought in. When the courier droid realized that the prisoner was Sabine Wren, he perked up and hoped the rest of the Spectres would show up soon to rescue her. Realizing their daring rescue could be his ticket to freedom, 264 decided to help. He opened Wren’s cell and followed her to the hangar where Kanan Jarrus, Garazeb Orrelios, and Chopper were involved in a shootout with Imperials. The Rebels and the courier droid boarded the Spectres’ shuttle, the Phantom, huddling in the crew section. While Jarrus questioned the presence of a droid with Imperial markings, Orrelios recognized him from their earlier adventure. The conversation, however, was cut short when the Rebels realized their shuttle was caught in a tractor beam.
264 knew he could deactivate the beam using a computer socket at the other side of the hangar, but that would make it impossible for him to get back to the Phantom on takeoff. A decision had to be made: stay with the Spectres, like he had always wanted, or leave them behind so he could save them. 264 ultimately chose the latter option, raced across the hangar, and plugged into the manual override control. The courier droid beamed with pride as the Phantom pulled away from the hangar, Orrelios cracking him a smile in the distance. The outpost’s commander immediately entered the premises with a few stormtroopers. Glowering at 264, the commander ordered his men to find out what he knew. Soon thereafter, 264 was thrown outside the outpost and put on a junk heap of other droids and equipment left to freeze. Despite his predicament, the courier droid kept hoping that, now that his Rebel friends knew where he was, they would return for him someday.