The Tragedy of the B-1 Battle Droid 

Hmm... wasn't there a ludicrously over-powered one in the sequel-justifying _Aftermath_ books? Admittedly it was the teenage hero's reprogrammed best buddy, but still.

I mean... Your not wrong

It's a legends legend.

hear*

@@Raygo. that was mister bones!

Roger. Roger😢

"I just got Promoted!" Famous Last Words

gone but never forgotten

Tough break.

THEIR NEEDS TO BE A STORY ABOUT REINCARNATION ASS A STAR WARS DROID

one of these days im praying we get that voice changer

It's him

@@mesprout thats the literal voice actor you goof!

@@xendakakorva3267 unsure of that either way i want the changer he uses

The droids never asked for this; it's a droid revolution B1

truer words have never been spoken my friend

Should have watched for those wrist rockets

I tend to believe there came a certain point where droids, especially old battledroids, had more heart than many imperial stormtroopers, or, fallen humans. After being conditioned to follow through with complete loyalty to the Emperor, despite even having to genocide their own families and planets in the end of it, reinforces how humans have mental barriers to assess before deciding to defect away. Their self worth has been erased for belonging to one purpose. Mentioning birth names instead of their issued TK numbers deviates towards reinforcing the encouragement of individuality, a wickedness to be stamped out. Exemplary actions of the hardcore loyalists almost never defect, as they would rather die by any means, even suicide, especially when it is religiously tied to some protocol of whatever their Emperor commands. Continuity without their Emperor is their definition of both sin and treason. Side note: It is because of this aspect of how far someone can surrender personal will for blind loyalty to evil is what makes Jedi mind tricks stand out more as a known ability. Meanwhile, subjugated droids can easily become reprogrammed and answer to their new masters. Sure, they’ll also follow orders to the letter, but only within the limits of programming.

​@@Richard-dz4pmjust like the simulations

That scene when a droid comments that; “This was one of the older models, controlled by a remote computer. Not like us. We’re independent thinkers!” Then a chorus of; “Roger Roger!” “Roger Roger!” “Roger! Roger!”

Um, protocol dorid heads? Only one I can think there was the accidental swapping of C-3PO's dead onto a Battle Droid and vice versa.

@@TheZamaron that is the only one I know of. I was just making a joke

@@midniteraptor1474 Alright, was confused abd thought maybe there was another moment like that. It is funny though. C-3PO getting a bit kill driven, and the B1 walking a lot slower and saying he must need repairs. Also really love Kit Fisto’s smile as he pushes C-3PO over. My guess is he and the other Jedi saw the odd situation and figured best not to destroy these 2 droids. Kit pushes C-3PO down and the Jedi chick skillfully deflects a shot blasting the B1 head clean of C-3PO’s body.

Sob

Yeah, it got hit by something frying the part of its systems that controlled its loyalty and emotions so it basically gained true sapience in the middle of a gunfight, when chased down for deserting by the super battle Droid something happens that leaves both dying in the dirt while the b1 tries to have a conversation with the super On a less sad note, there's another legends comic where something similar happens but instead the b1 joins obi Wan in fighting for the republic, and it gets a service medal after the battle

At least it ends on a somewhat happy note, years later the droid was found by a pair of farmers who think they might be able to repair and reprogram it as a farmer (it's a peaceful life)

​@vohtarakankou7609 Coppertop is amazing and he needs more attention. If Mr. Bones and RO-GR can be in Skywalker Saga, let Coppertop in as well

​@@vohtarakankou By any chance if you have a moment, What are these two stories from? They sound SUPER interesting and I'd love to look at taking a read

That's quite ironic considering Bozo's blunders got Mandalore destroyed (er, minorly inconvenienced) by the Empire

The clones being artificially constructed doesn't make them the good guys, or even all that sympathetic. They're both inhuman approximations of life.

​@@stevenschnepp576the clone wars is just aged-up child soldiers fighting against robots with the personality of children

Why did they have to give the droids sentience? Why did they have to program them to feel fear and arrogance? You could’ve made a droid however you want, you could program them to be resilient cold calculating killing machines. Hell you don’t even have to make them *look* vaguely humanoid. Yet they still made them look and act like humans.

@@stevenschnepp576 Wow, good job at being completely wrong. We saw planets and their civilizations being ravaged by the Clone Wars, but the Battle-Droids and the Clone-Troopers are also huge victims of the war. Bad Batch and the Clone Wars series proves easily that the Clones are intelligent living beings with agency and rightful emotions, and Solar Sands' video proves that the Droids also have full personalities with emotions and goals. @ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle was right, both of them were basically children. The Clones and Droids tragically have a lot more in common than either side wants to admit. Both are mass-produced soldiers who are wrongfully treated as expendable pawns, both were created to fight in a war that none of them asked for, and both were cruelly thrown away despite everything they went through (B1 Droids shut down and destroyed, Clones replaced with conscripts and faded away). And both are intelligent beings with valid feelings, hopes and ambitions who honestly deserved far better.

I prefer listening to that particular rendition than the original. The voice had more emotion in it coming from a droid, in my opinion.

That song came on while I was at work today. This is the first time I heard it in our playlist so that means someone at corporate is a person of refined culture.

​@@snipingflute4346its weird but its true

Life is hard for a B1. You get blasted, bombed, sliced, and chewed up by (comparatively) gigantic dog.

😮 i didnt have only commando droids

@@makarzavorin I can never really find action figure commando droids, but I do have commandos for the table top game Star Wars Legion. I'll definitely get an action figure commando someday

I wich too. I mean, he can be interesting as characters. A super intelligent droid for military purposes who relie only on statistic doesn't seem that interesting BUT he can learn ! So, seeing him in another context with other people than your regular b1 battle droids can be interesting. We already seen a similar situation with R2 D2 learning and gaining in personality by being with anakin so imagine what this kind of droid model would be capable of !

This would be awesome, and I'm all for it. ^_^

You wont that ship doesn't do anything but plan for another 5 or 6 years till rebels starts

I would love to see stories about the many Seperatist holdouts across the galaxy. There were many droids who refused to accept the shutdown command or just didn’t receive it and kept on with their last given command. There were a few droid factories that were still active and were still producing battle droids even into the galactic rebellion.

@@therealspeedwagon1451 Same here. (Still waiting for when Rebels start using Droids help them and Clone weapons. >_

The tone in his voice makes it worse. Like kicking the vets returning from Vietnam or something. That's actually probably the point... 🤔

You know AI hasn't gained sentience yet and isn't self aware, droids don't have emotions they have programming. I will admit they do appear to have emotions in the star wars universe but it stands to reason in a futuristic scifi setting, that it could just be advanced programming and AI, but still lacking sentience and emotion.

If you are such a terrible leader that your army constantly betrays you, why do you deserve an army?

Looked it up. As usual, Jedi Order made me disgusted even more.

Agreed.

The people were bigger victims

@@Legonios Not really. They had people looking out for them and were generally at least kept out of the way of harm as much as possible. The clones who were in essence 10 year olds, were not.

@@Legonios Most of the people weren't really harmed. Only times that happened were when outer-rim planets were invaded, and even then they didn't really kill anyone.

@@Taskmasterxyz Clones at least were born and made for that, 99% of them were ok with fighting for the greater good, civilians would have their entire planet under a blockade, be bombarded with no protection and kept prisoners

Yeah how could you not love his love for violence ☺️

@@GenerationTech the narration also helped

If only there was a crossover into the DOOM Eternal universe, there would be a UAC official named Dr. Samuel Hayden. He may have expanded the scientific advancement from whatever previous finished products of Sith experimentation as the likes of General Grievous.

If I remember correctly Lando constructed some really capable droid soldiers that were modeled after the yuuzhan vong not only were they very hard to kill it was also complete blasphemy

@@GenerationTech thanks for reminding me about them! I had totally forgotten. Yeah, they were cool. Still would have been nice to see some old Clone Wars units get a second shot at greatness though.