Oct 25, 2017 · Droids in the Star Wars universe are occasionally memory wiped so not to build up personality quirks, this hasn't happened to R2-D2, but it explains why he is unique. Share Improve this answer

Jan 3, 2013 · How can I understand voice of an astromech like R2-D2? Is it like an advanced version of Morse code or something similar? I want to know the full encoding details of an astromech's voice so that I can understand it the next time I watch Star Wars.

Aug 15, 2020 · Subsequently, some of the earliest variations of R2-D2 looked like a droid setting on top of a sphere just as McQuarrie mentioned in the interview. However, due to technical limitations of the time this concept of Artoo had to be reworked into something slightly different and similar to the droid we all know and recognize today.

Jan 23, 2015 · Within the established Disney/Lucasfilm canon (the six theatrical movies, Clone Wars TV series, Clone Wars film and Star Wars : Rebels TV Series) Darth never spoke with R2D2 again, although they did briefly interact in 'A New Hope'.

Mar 8, 2011 · R2-D2, during the Clone Wars, utilized a Brooks Propulsion rocket booster, which he used to escape and, in the case of the Battle of Coruscant, offensively. After the Clone Wars, however, Brooks Propulsion Devices, the company responsible for the development of his boosters, was shut down, and his rocket boosters were eventually damaged and ...

Astromech droids (at least R2-D2) can respond by using language, as shown in The Empire Strikes Back, when R2-D2's comments are displayed on a cockpit screen for Luke. The previous two points show that astromechs (at least R2 units) have full language processing abilities, both to understand and to make themselves understood.

Jan 29, 2016 · In some scenes you are inside R2-D2, in other scenes, it is remote controlled. Is there (apart from the scenes where R2 is rolling) an easy way for the viewer to see whether it’s you or the remote-controlled droid? By R2’s extension leg. When they were using that, they swapped R2. I can tell when I am in it because I know the way I move.

Apr 13, 2015 · I think R2-D2 never had a memory wipe and that is what makes him special. Also, he is like a soldier, always rushing to a fight. In Star Wars episode 4 C-3PO didn't want to search for Obi-Wan, but R2-D2 rushed to search for the Jedi, just like a soldier. In the Clone Wars he is almost the same. They always trust R2-D2 to do some special robot ...

Dec 21, 2015 · As R2-D2 recuperates in his self-imposed low power mode, his diagnostic systems are attempting to organise the vast trove of information in his databanks from over seven decades of uninterrupted operation. The defragmenting of millions of exanodes within his memory is causing R2-D2 to "dream" many of his greatest adventures.

Dec 25, 2015 · According to novelization, R2-D2 activation was prompted not as much by presence of Rey, as it was by people around saying that they have part of map to his old master and Empire had the rest: “Kylo Ren said that the segment held by Beebee-Ate is the last piece of the map that shows the way to Skywalker’s location.