Nikki Idd was a Human female who in her youth worked for her father, the droid designer Lonn Idd, aboard his droid repair space station. After picking up a group of broken droids from the planet Dodz at some point between 19 and 15 BBY, Idd and her brother, Vik, became the temporary masters of the protocol droid C-3PO and the astromech droid R2-D2. Upon their return to the station, Idd discovered that her father was being held hostage by the Annoo-dat Blue gangster Tig Fromm, who forced Lonn to install a powerful laser on his starship in exchange for Idd's safety. An initial attempt by Vik and the two droids to rescue her was thwarted by a Fromm Gang hover guard, but C-3PO afterward attacked the gangsters while disguised as an ancient guardian droid. Idd aided the protocol droid's efforts