Sounds akin to the 'blue frogs' they'd occasionally drop on the SWG test centers. I (and 99% of all other regular test center folks) despised them with a passion. They were essentially idiot magnets for the PvP folks (yes, I realize not all PvP folks are idiots, stash the crabbing). They'd all hop in to 'test out a template'
and sit there right next to the area PvPing for hours and create loads of lag for everyone else. Then when the devs would take them out after the current patch was rolled out, the whines and cries for these things getting put in permanently was incessant. All they did was to create 'tourists' for the TC servers. Not like they were actually helping 'test'.