#R2 astromech droid

[sw5w]

R2-B1 and R2-R9

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:25:49

[holonetwork]

Astromechs of the Expanded Universe

[star-wars-forever]

[americankimchi]

tcw is so good at introducing us to characters and bite-sized stories that capture our attention and so, SO bad at following even a modicum of logic when it comes to the consequences of actions under military law

[aquarielle]

✨ R2-D2 Trans Pride Sticker ✨

Made a trans flag version of my chaotic bi R2 design & hopefully soon I’ll be able to work my way through more pride flags :)

✨ Stickers

[simeonscott]

Just a Couple of Absolute Icons.

[thebibliomancer]

Smh can’t believe they made R2 straight

[7fashionfusionfrenzyblog]

[sithvampiremaster27]

And the final Robot for Robo-Vember is...

R2-D2!!!

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Astromech droids at the November 2022 Birmingham Comic-Con.

[sw5w]

Droid Down

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:26:02

[stygicniron]

praenunti asked:

[  assist  ]  sender  helps  the  receiver  with  a  task  they’re  struggling  in - Anakin

Ask Meme: Nonverbal Prompt -- @praenunti

A small frown dances on Nico’s lips as he looks from the droid manual over his knees to the switchboard in front of his face. His master had deemed it appropriate that he have a droid for himself, just like the astromech R2-D2 had been built by and served his master. In theory it makes sense. Nico can see how the practice of carefully piecing together machinery, finding just the place where each thing fits, would be helpful for focusing the mind and becoming more in tune with the Force, but Nico hasn’t had much skill in machine crafting, and his skills with the Force tend to lie more in the realm of the organic.

R2 whistles encouragement from the corner of the room and Nico grunts his acknowledgement back. “I think the manual writers intentionally write this in the most complicated way possible,” he grumbles.

Hands reach into his view, tapping at a particular area of the schematic before reaching over to provide him the requisite tool. Looking up, Nico spots the obvious smile in his master’s eyes. “Oh,” he mutters before taking the tool.

[archivyrep]

R2-D2: An Unintentional Archivist? [Part 1]

In the above noted video, a video podcast/vlog, Sam Cross and Jennifer Snoek-Brown, each with their respective blogs (Pop Archives and Reel Librarians) talk about archives themes in Star Wars (especially the themes), specifically noting that R2-D2 is a bit of an unintentional archivist in may ways. In the past I've noted the analysis droids of the Jedi Archives, noted fights over records in various episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the reprogramming of a droid, Chopper, in Star Wars Rebels as the Empire attempts to learn the location of the Rebel Base, along with any other secrets within. [1] However, I had never thought of R2-D2 as an unintentional archivist, perhaps because at times I see myself at the bit of the fringe of the Star Wars fandom. I tried to approach this article by combining my love of Star Wars with my knowledge of archives, records management, and other topics.

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Nov. 9, 2022.

I somewhat broached a similar subject in the past, in respect to Peridot in Steven Universe, determining whether she is a records manager, unintentional archivist, or something else entirely. His official Wookieepedia entry notes that he was "never given a full memory wipe nor did he ever receive new programming" and states that he semi-retires in the Resistance, poring "over several decades of uninterrupted data" and dreaming of his "greatest adventures." That's pretty amazing for a droid who is one of the only consistent characters through the series. Not only does he survive through the invasion of a planet (Naboo), the entire Clone Wars, the Jedi Purge, the rise of the Galactic Empire, the end of the Empire, and beyond!

The entry notes that when he was captured, in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Downfall of a Droid" as the devious General Grevious wants to "disassemble the astromech droid and extract all information on the Republic's military strategies from him". While he is saved in "Duel of the Droids", this does show that even enemies see his value as a storage place of information. In a later episode, "Evil Plans", Cad Bane exploits this, accessing the memory banks of R2, allowing him to "obtain a technical layout of the Senate Building".

General Grevious personally oversees the disassembly of R2 in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Duel of the Droids"

To make sure his plan works, he even mind-wipes R2, so he doesn't remember anything! As a note, all of these episodes will be from Star Wars: The Clone Wars unless otherwise stated. In fact, even while C-3PO gets mind wiped after Anakin becomes Darth Vader, R2 does not! This allows him to recognize Ashoka Tano in the series Ashoka and Star Wars Rebels episode "Droids in Distress". A memory wipe is a select or completely erasing memory of a droid, something selectively done. This is basically a disposal process that "results in the obliteration of records", i.e. destruction, rather than disposal or disposition.

Even funnier is the fact that R2 even commands, "The Citadel" and "Counterattack") a whole droid squadron, allowing him to free some of the captured Jedi. Otherwise, he has helped indigenous people rise up against droid overlords, in the episode "Nomad Droids", befriended battle droids in "A Friend in Need". And despite almost being destroyed various times, like in the episode "Point of No Return", or blasted in Return of the Jedi, he somehow survives, as does all the information he stores, despite various reboots if you will.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Continued in part 2

Notes

[1] In that post, I said "there's also fights over records in "Senate Spy" (S2, e4), "Children of the Force" (S2, e3), "Downfall of a Droid" (S1, e6), and "Duel of the Droids" (S1, e7)." Also, in an August 2020 post, I describe the Wookiepedia entry for Nu, which says that the "Chief Librarian" (actually chief archivist) is assisted by "associate librarians" (actually associate archivists), along with various analysis droids.

[ohlookitsanartist]

Pencimber Day 18: R is for R2-D2

[tossawary]

It's funny to think about a scenario in which Luke manages to get Yoda off Dagobah and bring him back to the Rebellion. Maybe Obi-Wan left a message with R2 as a backup plan or something, so Luke got the message much earlier. Yoda is still too old and injured to fight, but he can train Luke while moving around as the Rebellion's new grandpa (and potentially reunite with characters like Ahsoka and Kanan and Cal and so on).

This AU is important to me because how it would look from an Outsider's POV:

"Uhhh, Luke," Han said. "What's that?"

"What's what?" Luke said, turning to look across the hangar bay. "Oh. That's Master Yoda. I went to Dagobah to get him, remember?"

Han studied the small, green, vaguely amphibious creature with long pointy ears and wisps of white hair, crouched underneath Luke's X-Wing and steadily eating its way though a bucket of... what the hell were those things? Eggs?

"That's your great Master Yoda?" Han said dubiously. He couldn't have helped it, so he didn't even try not to sound skeptical. "The one who's going to train you and Her Royal Highness in this... uh... penetrating life field magic?"

Those ragged brown blankets that it seemed to be wearing looked not unlike the dusty robes that Luke's old man had been shuffling around in, before getting killed back on the Death Star. Maybe.

"He's the wisest and most powerful Jedi Master alive," Luke said, like he was determined to be upbeat about it. "He's 900 years old. He said."

Han watched the creature dig around in the bucket some more, nearly sticking the entire upper half of its body inside. Its long ears wilted when it came up empty. It sat back with a loud, high-pitched harrumph and its wrinkled face scrunched up like a fruit rotting all at once.

"Yeah," Han said. "He looks it."

Luke shot him a betrayed look and Han just shrugged. He didn't have a problem with the kid and the princess finding some comfort in some hokey old religion. The kid's family had apparently been killed by troopers the day that Han had met him and Leia had watched her entire planet be destroyed, so whatever touchy-feely nonsense helped them deal with that helped.

But that didn't mean that Han wasn't going to call it like he saw it- "Uh, kid, is that your storage unit he's searching now?"

Luke groaned and put his head in his hands. "I left some ration bars in there, I think. I bet he can smell them."

This great Jedi Master was making a real mess of it. He threw one of Luke's things over his shoulder, where the tool hit R2-D2, and the small droid immediately let out a shocked series of beeps and chirps. The outraged blare when the droid traced the missile back to Yoda was even louder.

Han watched as the droid whirred briskly up to Yoda, then reached out with an extended grabber and yanked at the old Jedi's stick. Yoda shrieked in surprise. A tug-o-war started, which looked like it was going to have one or both of them falling over.

"Oh, no," Luke said.

People around the hangar bay were starting to stare. Han couldn't look away.

The droid released the wooden stick and Yoda let out a cry of triumph. Which turned into a yelp of pain, because R2-D2 had just zapped him with another extended tool, which crackled like a threat that the droid would do it again. Yoda's response was to smack the droid with his stick, repeatedly, grunting with the effort - and the loud clanging caught the attention of everyone who hadn't already been looking.

"You gonna, uh, you gonna do something about that?" Han said to the kid.

Luke sighed heavily, which definitely meant that this wasn't the first time something like this had happened. He stood up and waded into the mess, catching the stick with one hand and physically pushing the droid back with the other, ordering the old astromech and older Jedi Master to knock it off. He sounded just like a parent about to hand out some punishments.

R2-D2 beeped petulantly at Luke.

"I don't care who started it!" Luke said, his exasperation carrying. "This time or last time-! Ow!"

The great Jedi Master had just smacked Luke in the shin with that stick. Luke hopped on one foot for a few seconds, biting down on what probably would have been some nasty Huttese cursing. Yoda harrumphed again and then lurched back over towards his empty egg bucket.

R2-D2 made a sound that Han had, whether he liked it or not, already come to recognize meant: "I told you so."

"Oh, fuck off," Luke snapped.

Han threw back his head and laughed.

[bogleech]

It’s so disappointing that they wrote “L3″ (and the rest of the Solo movie) so poorly and were narratively just shitty with her because she’s such a rad concept??? She was an astromech droid (like R2 and similar) who upgraded herself into a humanoid that could speak, and the actual FX work that went into her looks so good in motion :(