#Astromech

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Astromechs of the Expanded Universe

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Industrial Automaton P2-Series Prototype Astromech Droid

Source: The Essential Guide to Droids (Del Rey, 1999)

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Is this the Pip lovers fan club?

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THE TECHNICOLOUR ASTROMECH DROIDS OF THE MANDALORIAN SEASON THREE

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We got Day 9 - FROZEN

When you think you had secured all of the pizza boxes frozen rations in the back and find out that you didn't. (It could have happened!)

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Half Baked Acolyte Thoughts with Dani:

So I have a theory that we will one day see R2D2 in The Acolyte if we get a continuation. I was sitting at my desk yesterday, half dozing and half baked and my mind was just wandering, thinking of other theories I have when I randomly started dreaming about Osha talking to R2D2 like she did with Pip? That made me instantly sit up wide awake, like, holy forking shirtballs, is it even possible?

So I started digging into Artoo's history as well as rewatching The Acolyte. So please feel free to keep reading if you want to get into the mess that is my brain.

First thing that correlates with my theory is that they started manufacturing R2 units during or prior to 132BBY - which is the year that The Acolyte is set.

(From Wookieepedia)

(From Wookieepedia)

And that got me thinking about Astromechs and how Osha was a meknek. And that made me think about Pip's functionality, which I then went looking for in the pictures we got from the Visual Dictionary preview.

And I started thinking about how similar Pip's functions are to Artoo. Pip needs a Meknek (he's their tool) to do what Artoo can do by himself.

Then I thought about how we're introduced to Osha as a Meknek by fixing a shield generator on a Trade Federation ship. Which then led me to Artoo's first introduction of fixing Padme's shield generator while they were FIGHTING with a Trade Federation ship. Which then lead me down the rabbit hole of remembering that Anakin & R2D2 took out the Trade Federation ship at the end of The Phantom Menace. (The part on top of Artoo's head in the thumbnail looks very much like Pip's droid head unit! Which also made me think of his light functionality in Episode 5 and Artoo's light!)

Osha loved Pip and helped created his personality by her interactions with him. R2 droids are most known for their "compassion".

(From Wookieepedia)

He's strangely loyal, just like Pip is loyal to Osha. While fighting Mae, Pip was mindwiped by Mae and Mae takes over his ownership (which she is then mind wiped as well). Artoo has never been mind wiped and has been with multiple owners.

(From Wookieepedia)

(From Wookieepedia)

Then I started rewatching for any potential easter eggs and I found a few in the first 2 episodes. Sorry for the grainy pictures because I had to take a photo of my monitor but here we go. In Episode 1 when we are introduced to Osha she sits up in her bed and there's a photo of what looks like R2D2 or of a general Astromech R2 droid. Then we have Jecki mentioning R2 droids in Episode 2 when Osha helps her with the ship.

Maybe I'm crazy but what a great way to connect The Acolyte with the main storyline, by having Artoo be there from the very beginning. I really hope we get another season, because I for one, would be very excited to see Osha hanging out with Artoo. They would be really good friends. It would be cool if that's what makes him such a good Astromech, because Osha is one too. This would also tie Osha to Padme and then to Anakin by being Artoo's previous owner. I really hope I'm right.

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Me if I was in star wars and also had a droid girlfriend

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Did Barriss had an astromech droid during the Clone wars?

I mean, in the Umbara arc she is show piloting a Delta-7B Aethersprite-class light interceptor and I looks like there's a purple astromech in it:

But because this scene it's just in the intro of the episode I don't know what to think about it.

I'm kinda of inclined to believe this is actually Luminara's droid, but that's just the voices of my head.

I couldn't find a wookipedia page on this specific droid, and I checked to see if they appear on that droid arc with R2D2 where they save Gregor, but there's no purple droid there. And I'm pretty sure that's purple.

[themuskrater]

Gang am I fucking stupid?

I always assumed that Chopper was an R5 series astromech... because he LOOKS like an animated, stylized R5

So I had a whole paragraph ready about how Disney made a mistake translating him into live action and used his animated propotions, but I kind of got curious how he got the name C1-10P. I assumed it was gonna be like ND-5, who's a BX battle droid, and his name isn't related to his series number. BUT NO. APPARENTLY, THERE IS AN ENTIRE C1 SERIES OF ASTROMECHS I JUST DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT.

And now I'm wondering why Disney created an entirely new series of astromechs if they were just going to design him to look like an R5 anyway? I always assumed he was just kind of wide because Rebels was a heavily stylized show. But no, that's what he's SUPPOSED to look like

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The ears are, in fact, completely detachable.

I give you, the trans pride astromech droid.

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Since Ji Ho and Jack practice yoga and meditate to ease Jack's pain, they spend a lot of time together these days. And since Jack loves games so much, he teaches Ji Ho Sabacc. Usually Jack plays with Saiwa or Vlad but now that they are all so tense since Kiyoshi is back...

Jack: "Would you accompany me to the Temple later to let Arturo treat me? I can't wait to get rid of Kiyoshi's influence over me and all this pain. Tomorrow it's been a year since he became my Alpha and it went utterly downhill with me." Ji Ho hesitates, but he promised to be honest: "Um Jack, are you aware that it isn't Arturo who heals you? It's the magic of the Temple - and the Tree. And the Tree is Kiyoshi. He's the diety who gives Arturo his powers." No, of course Jack hadn't been aware of that.

Jack: "Very well then. I will avoid the Temple. And Kiyoshi. I can do this by myself. It already got a lot better, even though Kiyoshi is back and always around."

Ji Ho: "Are you sure? You live with this pain for months now." Jack: "Thanks to you I can almost do anything here. The yoga, meditating... I will set up a hot tub and skip the massages." Ji Ho: "I could ask Vlad if it's ok for him when I give you the massages?" Jack: "You would? I know this must be hard for you given that you learned how to do it at 'The House of the rising Sun' (the brothel where Ji Ho's mother used to work). But Vlad will be ok with it, I'm his best friend. Don't worry."

Speaking of Vlad. While Jack and Ji Ho play Sabacc, he, Jeb and Kiyoshi gathered with Saiwa to finally tell him the whole truth about 'Bird'...

Vlad: "... and then we found out that Kiyoshi didn't say 'I love Bird' but 'I like Fur' because his last blurred thoughts were about Jack, his real fated mate. And not about you. *Vlad sighs from the dephts of his soul before he's able to continue. He hates to hurt Saiwa* So it wasn't necessary to have a fake relationship with Kiyoshi to bring him back..."

Saiwa exploded. His head was spinning. Jeb and him put their whole relationship on a risk for a misunderstanding of a muffled word and Jack's weird theory and a tattoo? Arturo already told them that Kiyoshi and Jack are fated mates but it seemed so weird that someone like Kiyoshi would love someone like Jack so Saiwa too thought there must have been something between them so Kiyoshi's last thoughts were about him - and that he were so special to him and the fake relationship needed to be done to help him come back... And now this! Since the Lab Saiwa hadn't felt so humiliated. He was only able to say one word, and that was: "RUN!"

And they ran... They know Saiwa well enough that nothing they could do or say now would be able to calm him down.

Saiwa even started to throw things at them!

Vlad is familiar with Saiwas temper and he knows he needs his time to cool down. And so they decided to go the only other place in Tomarang where they could stay - the Temple. There's always some work to do and they could also spend some time on their secret project which is supposed to help to make it up to the others. Now more important than ever.

Poor Jeb. What have they done. That's the first time Saiwa is mad at him after they broke up - because of Jack - and he doesn't know what to do. What if Saiwa leaves him - again. He wouldn't survive this. Vlad: "Let's leave before he hits us with something painful - or comes after us!"

And in the evening, when they came back from work, Vlad caught Ji Ho massaging Jack.

Vlad knows there is no reason to be jealous. Jack is his best friend and even the Bond lets him know that there's nothing to be upset about.

But it hurts. It reminds him of the times Ji Ho massaged him to charge the bond and he wishes his relationship with Ji Ho was different. That they finally could be together. His head knows how wrong this is and he wants to give Ji Ho all the time he needs and he would even give up on love if that meant Ji Ho could be happy without him. But his heart wants what his heart wants...

'It's savage and it's cruel And it shines like destruction Comes in like the flood And it seems like religion It's noble and it's brutal It distorts and deranges And it wrenches you up And you're left like a zombie

And I want you And I want you And I want you so It's an obsession

It's guilt edged Glamorous and sleek by design You know it's jealous by nature False and unkind It's hard and restrained And it's totally cool It touches and it teases As you stumble in the debris'

Love is a stranger - Eurythmics

Outtakes

Vlad in his room looking at his plasmafruit tree. He's so happy that he can finally eat real food! Plasma fruit are delicious - but having them day for day...

Jeb and Kiyoshi after teleporting ö.Ö'

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Industrial Automaton R2-Series Astromech Droid

Source: The Essential Guide to Droids (Del Rey, 1999)

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