The Essential Guide to Droids (Page 40-41)
Household Service: ZZ-4Z ("Zee Zee")
[edit]Once, butler droids were all the rage. Blue bloods and aristocrats, anxious for new ways to flaunt their good fortune, snapped up the toys and showed them off at receptions and dinner parties. When their interest faded, so did the market. The only butler droids still functional today are centuries‑old models like ZZ‑4Z, nicknamed "ZeeZee."
ZeeZee is a JV‑2/D unit, manufactured by Serv‑O‑Droid during the heyday of the butler fad. Like his long‑vanished lotmates, ZeeZee is outfitted with all the necessary tools to attend to his master's every domestic whim.
The JV‑2/D is humanoid in shape, with a short stature and intentional slouch meant to imply subservience. Though ZeeZee has grown rusty and pitted over the years, the original models were coated with a burnished veneer of silver chromite. The droid's head contains an infrared lintscope, a genteel‑sounding vocabulator, and an internal databank packed with highbrow minutiae such as the proper way to fold an Oseoni greatcoat.
Butler droids are endlessly patient, unfailingly polite, and impeccably cultured. They are equipped to supervise entire household staffs of chefbots, cleaning robos, and chauffeur droids, and, while they can be quite snippy to their mechanical underlings, are obsequiously civil to their masters and invited guests.
ZZ‑4Z has had a long and checkered career as a domestic steward. Generations ago, he was willed to the dean of the Military Academy of Carida by a wealthy donor in the hopes that the deans may never forget the civility that all citizens must hold dear.
Stationed in the administrative annex at Cliffside, ZeeZee served as office secretary and personal valet for seventeen successive deans and was quite popular with the cadets, who could always count on the droid to relate amusing anecdotes highlighting the deans' private foibles.
One of ZeeZee's friends was Cadet Mako Spince. When Spince was expelled for destroying Carida's "mascot moon" with a gram of stolen antimatter, he took the butler droid with him to the blighted undercity of Nar Shaddaa. The ubiquitous squalor and filth pushed poor ZeeZee's tidiness circuits past their redline limits. Mako, tired of his carping, intentionally lost the droid in a sabacc game to a young Han Solo.
When Han left the Smugglers' Moon, he left ZeeZee behind. Sadly, the droid was neglected for more than a decade. But six years after the Battle of Endor, ZeeZee finally saw his master again, and was proud to announce the latest house guest: a curious gentleman named Boba Fett.
Unfortunately, the ensuing blaster fight tore him to pieces. It remains to be seen whether some enterprising being will repair ZZ‑4Z.
Info Boxes
[edit]Front View
[edit]- Photoreceptor
- Infrared Lintscope
- Olfactory Sensor
- Vocabulator
- Servomotor
- Auxiliary Power Cable
Rear View
[edit]- Auditory Sensor
- Supplementary Sensor Package
- Chromite Body Shell
- Recharge Port