guybroom Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I'm confused with the naming of droids. How can Anikan suddenly come out with the name C3-PO? Is there some main galaxy spanning database for droids like there is for the number plates for cars? Otherwise while travelling around the galaxy, there could be 50 different droids could C3-PO or 27 called R2-D2. Anyone have any answers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I think it has to do with their job and the parts they use or something. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it's similiar to how they serialize cars. R2-D2 is a one of a kind, as astromech droids are produced on a line, they're numbers are given in line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guybroom Posted February 21, 2005 Author Share Posted February 21, 2005 I do understand the first 2 bits are their class or their job or what ever: R2 units. But does that mean that everyone who makes a droid in the entire galaxy would have to check the name on a computer or something for the last 2 things. Please shrink that sig... Thanks ~ coupes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 R2 is the series number of the model (Its surname) and D2 is an unpredictable name given to each D2 unit (Its first-name) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 Nobody (besides Lucas) really knows for sure. There were some theories, but then Lucas went and made the prequels, which also gave us a droid that looks identical to C3PO (although silver, with a female voice) called TC-14. Perhaps Anakin was just a little kid who made up a name that sounded cool. Every droid in the entire galaxy doesn't need to have a unique name. Even on earth there are thousands of people with the same first and last name. It is only confusing if you don't know them by sight and manner and they are working in the same area. I believe the EU originally said that C3PO was supposed to be a really old Droid (this was back when people were thinking Lucas planned to make other Trilogies set long ago before the OT). Sebastian Shaw was in his 70's when he played Vader unmasked in ROTJ. Think of him as a young man, that was 50 years ago! The droids were supposed to be the "witnesses of the entire saga" so it would make sense for Threepio to be a really old droid if he witnessed everything throghout the saga of a 50 year old Empire. Anyway, TPM established that Anakin built Threepio, so he's really only 30 years old by the time of the OT. Threepio calls him "my Maker." So there you go. The TPM DVD commentary has Lucas saying he intended TPM to be set about 30 years before the OT and young Anakin looks to be about 9 or 10, so there you go. I believe the new EU retcon is that he build Threepio from existing parts that were already really old, so they can still say he was a really old droid to fit with that idea (even if the Empire is actually much younger than we thought, only 20+ years old by the OT and Anakin would only be in his mid to late 40's by the time of his death). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Sitherino Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 I think he intended it that way, but it didn't really turn out that way. Between episode III and IV we have a 20 year space. From TPM to AoTC, we have about 10 years. RoTS is 3 years after AoTC. So he's about 41 in ANH. Shaw may have been 70, but that doesn't mean Anakin/Vader was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 He every well might have, and if we didn't have anything but the films, who knows. It would seem odd that he was able to escape detection from the Jedi at an early age with such great power (Anakin's makes sense because he wasn't born inside the Republic), but there you go. However TPM (and subsequent literature) makes the connection that the Sith have had continuity for this thousand year period from their supposed exctinction until TPM, so we assume that Palpatine had a master. We just have no idea who that master was and probably never will (in canon, anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 This is off-topic but in RotS didn't Palpatine relate a story about a Darth ______ to Anakin when they were watching that show in the Senate chamber? The story about how this particular Sith Lord discovered the secret to prolonging life or something to that effect? Then this Sith Lord was killed by his apprentice. This is the story that helps sway Anakin to the DS because he wants to be able to preserve Padme's life. I just naturally assumed that the apprentice in this story was Palpatine, a.k.a. Darth Sidious, himself. If so then that particular Sith Lord whose name I can't recall (must get RotS DVD in November) would have been master to Darth Sidious. No? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 This theme has already been treated in this thread : http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=149190 Hope it helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Yes, it's very official that Darth Plagueis was Darth Sidious's master. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Monkey11 Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 lucas thought of it, But thats a good qwestion thoe, got me confuesed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Eventually, it isn't really confusing, you know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeskywalker1 Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Well, it is just a couple of movies But its still a good question to think about. Well, Anakin wouldn't have access to some kind of huge droid name database... so, he musta just made it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Or maybe its name was written somewhere on the droid's body ?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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