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This control box will pop you out into the open!Luke Skywalker
The droid caller,[4] also referred to as a caller,[5] control box, control device[6] or owner, was a handheld transmitter device that was used to summon a droid or activate its restraining bolt.[7]
Callers were designed with three basic commands: "COME" called a droid forward, "STOP" forced it to halt, and "ORDERS" caused it to enact any commands, within the droid's operating parameters, given verbally.[7]
The Jawas of Tatooine often used callers to control their droids before selling them. As a seven-year-old child, Luke Skywalker created a makeshift droid caller in order to stargaze without his aunt and uncle's droids detecting him. It was confiscated when Owen Lars discovered him. Both Luke Skywalker and Han Solo carried callers around 0 BBY. Luke used his caller to bring C-3PO out of hiding after R2-D2 departed to find Obi-Wan Kenobi.[2]
Jaybo Hood on Iego possessed a reprogrammed droid caller which he could use to control battle droids.[8]
Appearances
- Adventures in Hyperspace: Shinbone Showdown
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"Abregado-Rae Intrigue" — No Disintegrations -
"Spare Parts" — Star Wars Adventure Journal 11 (also reprinted in Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club) - Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- Star Wars: A New Hope novelization (and unabridged audiobook) (First appearance, in book)
- Star Wars (1977) 1 (colorized in Star Wars: A Long Time Ago... Volume 1: Doomworld and Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope (HC))
- Star Wars: Assault Team
- A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker (and audiobook)
Non-canon appearances
Sources
- A Guide to the Star Wars Universe
- The Star Wars Sourcebook (as control device)
- Star Wars Campaign Pack (as Control Device)
- Cracken's Rebel Field Guide (as owner)
- Star Wars Gamemaster Kit (as Restraining Bolt Owner)
- Galaxy Guide 7: Mos Eisley (as hand controller)
- Cracken's Rebel Operatives (as restraining bolt deactivator)
- The Star Wars Sourcebook, Second Edition (as control device)
- Star Wars Gamemaster Screen, Revised
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Star Wars Customizable Card Game — Premiere Limited (Card: Caller) (backup link) -
Star Wars Mythos (Pack: Obi-Wan Kenobi) (backup link) - Cynabar's Fantastic Technology: Droids
- The Far Orbit Project
- Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary (as droid caller)
- A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
- The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary (as droid caller)
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"May The Facts Be With You: Part Two: #51-100" — Star Wars Insider 95 (also reprinted in Special Edition 2010 and The Original Trilogy) (as droid caller) - The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
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restraining bolt in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link) - Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ Star Wars (1977) 1
- ↑ "May The Facts Be With You: Part Two: #51-100" — Star Wars Insider 95
- ↑ Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novel
- ↑ The Star Wars Sourcebook
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 restraining bolt in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia