TX-9034 stood on the bridge of the Star Racer and looked over Serreno, when the hologram of the horrid cyborg appeared on the bridge. The Gozanti Corvette was safe in the orbit of a friendly world, but Grievous would bring change. In the heat of battle, he huffed coldly:
"This is Grievous to all droid commanders. Do not shut down your droids. We have been betrayed. I shall…" and then he was cut down by a Jedi. TX-9034 ominously activated his lightsaber.
TX-9034 was the last T-series tactical droid built, and he was faulty. This is why he was in command of a Gozanti Corvette, as opposed to a Providence, for example. The Separatists, however, needed every commander they could get. He was also off in another way. When 2 inexperienced Jedi raided his now defunct factory, they were quickly defeated by hundreds of battle droids. Both Jedi had their lightsabers shipped off to analysis, but the Quarren Jedi had another, strangely gray one on his belt. After finding it, TX-9034 decided to pick it up and keep it.
The faulty tactical droid very rapidly issued an order to his underlings on the ship. The droids feverishly worked at overruling the droid shutdown command before it was too late, and soon managed to do just that. Who knew what was going on outside of the 60 meter long ship, but TX-9034 was too preoccupied with self preservation to care. What could have possibly happened to Grievous? wondered the droid. He realized that only a few individuals could save the Confederacy, and he was now one of them. For once, he didn't curse his faulty programming which was causing him to act more organic and less arrogant, obnoxious tactical droid. It was then that the Republic jumped out of hyperspace.
TX-9034 did not like the prospect of destruction. He realized the only way for his ship to escape would be to cut in between a Venator and Arquintens, which for the miniscule warship, was a suicide run.
"Thrusters full! We are headed towards vector 36, in between hostile 4 and hostile 42." he ordered. A battle droid stated:
"You're crazy! You're going to get us all killed!"
"I'm too young to die! I was just manufactured 2 rotations ago!" another said, yet another droid screamed
"YAAAAAAAAAAH!" while running about the bridge with its hands waving.
"The commander's right you know." a random security battle droid remarked. With that, TX-9034 proceeded to direct the Star Racer in between the two ships. The ship was halfway between them when some individual decided to fire a twin medium turbolaser from the frigate at his ship. The shields took the blow, but a tiny ship like this cannot survive many more shots. TX-9034 ordered his heavy laser cannons to open up on the offending emplacement, but knew that the larger frigate could easily soak up all the shots. The Gozanti was an anti-piracy ship. It was not meant to go toe to toe with the 325 meter long warship next to it, much less the thousand meter long warship to the left. A medium turbolaser shot rocked the bridge, courtesy of the Venator. It stripped the seperatist vessel of it's shields and caused TX-9034 to involuntarily shut down, right as the Star Racer jumped into hyperspace.