K-8LR was a polished, silver protocol droid that once belonged to Jabba Desilijic Tiure and Jiliac Desilijic Tiron prior to the Battle of Yavin. Programmed to communicate with the Palace's Gamorrean guards, K-8LR once translated a message from Gartogg, calling upon hunters to eliminate wild animals that ran amok at the Palace's garbage pits. K-8LR was assigned to Jabba's Mos Eisley townhouse. It helped Muftak and Kabe rob the place and escaped when they took off its restraining bolt.