The Missed World Building of Star Wars Droids 

I like to think some version of this video exists in-universe by a disgruntled Star Destroyer security technician

I love this kind of speculation - please do more of it! It's good to see how we can rethink star wars with just simple concept changes or reframing

Actually i'm pretty sure droids over time develop personality quirks. Or just a personality overall. Hence why they go through regular memory wipes. Most people don't typically allow them to go around without regularly wiping them. People would probably notice that r2d2 isn't his sarcastic self. Leading to an inspection. Tampering could still be a problem. Bit still.

I always thought robots in Star Wars were living characters within the fiction.

I don't think it's too unrealistic for the empire to use droids on the death star despite their security risk, being that they provide a necessary convenience when operating rhe complexity of a moon sized ship, in the real world government agencies use cloud storage despite risk it posses security wise, and yes there is the odd leak from that but it provides enough a convenience that the slight security risk is a worthwile trade off in their eyes

man this video is really underrated. Youve got great content here and I expected it to be a much bigger channel but upon looking at the comments there is nothing here. Keep up the good work man, its really honestly great quality. Youve most definitely earned a new subscriber

Hey Really like your Video, but the one part about “Why did the CIS use battle droids if there not that great”. It’s simple, the Clone Wars on a soldier to soldier basis is Quality( Clones ) vs Quantity( Droids ). Sure the battle droids aren’t that great, but because the CIS has the backing of the corporations they can produce them in Billions and Trillions. The Republic can make plenty of clones too, but even if not on the same amount the Quality of clone soldier is better than the droids, the Clones were trained very well.

At 4:42 I say "we've never seen a reprogrammed void spontaneously revert back to its original programming" I was trying to remember if this is contradicted by the Season 3 Mando episode where battle droids keep glitching out, but I think I remember correctly that actually that's because they're being sabotaged, right? I finished my Star Wars marathon over a month ago at this point, and I don't want to rewatch the Jack Black and Lizzo episode of Mandalorian.

Layla was so desperate she would have given the plans to R2-D2 rather she trusted him or not. He was her only chance for getting the message out.

Leia used a droid because they are like Hobbits to Mordor, easily skipped over.

I’m pretty sure the reason Star Wars militaries don’t use lots of droids is because droids are expensive, you need to manufacture a lot of them, and if they break, you have to make new ones

I guess you never heard of the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise well I really think he should have been Snoke the whole time, also did you see my comment in the previous video? Also what do you think about Tim Burton’s Batman movies?

From my understanding droids do actually develope personalities if they are not memory wiped which can conflict with their true programing. Thats how you get droids like R2 that can sceme and out wit real people but it makes them unreliable and hard to control. Also droids became very unpopular due to them being more expensive than people and their tainted reputation from the clone wars which would only help to drive support away from the faction. Battle droids were used only because they were cheaply made in large quanitities which can have the ability to overwhelm the opposition but they end up being pretty dumb and incapable on their own. Lucas was actually going to explore droids in the sequels but we'll probably never see it fully realized.

Also are we talking about the history of rome podcast with mike duncan ?

What's your rationale for it being apparently "easy" to reprogram a droid? Are we ever given a look into the process?

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An interesting concept, but it seems to rely on galactic history being no more than a dozen centuries. Droids were invented at some point in the past fifty years, took off as a fad for a while, and then were completely abandoned. Trouble is, I believe even Disney's reboot keeps the original age of 25,000 years for the Old Republic. Droids have arguably been around for significantly longer than that, among the cultures that would eventually unite to become the Republic we know. As for reprogramming, if you've got rebels running around your secret military stations and tampering with all your droids, you've got bigger problems with your security than just those droids. There are certainly droids that have been modified and have a secret allegiance, such as the RA-7 Death Star Droid. These were built by the Empire as mediocre protocol droids for their officers: a gift they were obliged to accept. Their actual purpose is to spy on Imperial officers and report back to the Empire. Other examples involve taking a 3PO model and building an assassin or espionage droid into its shell. However you go about it, to subvert an enemy droid... you're basically building a new droid, and installing that into the original chassis. Something to keep in mind is that for the intelligent droids, they're effectively people. It's not trivial to brainwash a droid that's truly loyal into changing sides. The way we control them is with the restraining bolt: a plot point in the original movie is Artoo having one installed by the Jawas, but keeping his free will and loyalties. Holding the droid caller just forces him to either freeze or come towards you. He can still try to trick his master into removing the bolt by playing part of a holographic message. Notice that Threepio has no strong loyalties, and doesn't protest having his own restraining bolt. You can try erasing a droid's memory, but that only gets rid of loyalty that was built over their lifetime: an Imperial warbot would be hardcoded to side with the Empire, and resetting it to factory settings won't make it join the Rebellion.

Someone didn't watch the clone wars

Dude dude, I don't think I could watch any of the Disney ones again bro I don't know. No, ... just no

Pretty cool video but my one criticism is how you make it sound like anyone can reprogram a droid by just pressing a button on its back or something. Out of the thousands of the droids in the movies we only see a small handful of reprogrammed ones, and I don’t remember them ever mentioning how much work has to be put into reprogramming them. The imperial droid from Rogue One may taken large team of engineers working for months to get it working correctly. Also I don’t know why the empire wouldn’t just have some kind of cybersecurity system to easily stop or tampered with droids when the technology already exists today