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Krell, Damon

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this Imperial Admiral devised several modifications to the standard Viper probe droid, making his own droids larger and better armed than their originals. Admiral Krell was a hulking, well-muscled man who was distinguished by a ragged scar across his left cheek. He launched his probe droids shortly after the Battle of Hoth, in an effort to locate possible Alliance fleets. Whenever the droids encountered Alliance starships, they were programmed to attack and kill all beings aboard, then assume control of the ship. Using information stored in the ship's navigational computers, the probe droid would then head toward the nearest Alliance fleet, intent on infiltrating the fleet and turning their own weapons against them. If firepower wasn;t sufficient, the probe droids were also programmed to overload the ships' main reactor cores, causing massive explosions. One particular probe droid, designated 13-K, captured an Alliance corvette, but the ship was infiltrated by Luke Skywalker. Its programming caused it to break off its pursuit of the Alliance fleet and return to Krell with Skywalker as its prisoner. 13-K reached Admiral Krell's vessel just as the main reactor in the corvette reached critical levels and exploded, destroying 13-K, the corvette, Krell's ship and all hands aboard.