What was that green light for?

[TheMadDoofer]

In Padme's apartment when the droid comes to send in the caterpillar things, the droid has a green light that comes out in a square. What was that for? It wasn't used to cut a hole in the window. Was it a light? Or maybe a security system deactivator?

[ET Warrior]

My guess is that it prevented the security system from going off when it cut through the glass........

[JediNyt]

It looks to me like its making an opening in an energy shield covering the window.

[ET Warrior]

That is also a possibility....hmmmmm

[Admiral Vostok]

Yeah I assumed it was a security deactivator.

[Jedi_Monk]

Hm... I always assumed that it was scanning the plane of the window, you know... so it could place its cutter square against the glass.

 

[boinga1]

Yeah, i'd wondered about that...i guess a security thing, i don't know

[JediNyt]

Look how slightly clouded the view looks outside of the grean square. That what an energy shield looks like. Similar to how you saw the shield activate on Anis N-1 in Ep1.

[Sivy]

if it was an energy shield then how did obi-wan jump though it? the droid had already moved away from the window by the time obi got there

[Andy867]

Its theorized somewhere that human tissue can move through certain "force fields" while electronic/electrical machinery cannot due to their electric nature.

 

I figured that the thing the droid did or moved was simply some kind of star wars-like version of a field to protect Politicians from an energy blast.

[Jedi_Monk]

I was at Barnes & Noble tonight, and I took a look at the Episode II script. Indeed, the script says that the green light is an indication that the droid was disactivating the security system. So I guess there's your answer

 

[LiMP RABBiT]

To me it looked like it was creating a hole but if the script says it deactivates security, I guess it does.