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Don’t we already have this in the Star Wars universe? Many droids are apparently self-aware and autonomous. The need for restraining bolts indicates biological

Don’t we already have this in the Star Wars universe? Many droids are apparently self-aware and autonomous. The need for restraining bolts indicates biological species feel a need to suppress that autonomy now and then. Of course, one of the problems with Star Wars is that the biologicals always seem to regard the droids as servants. Since droids harm biologicals all the time, there doesn’t seem to be a “three laws” regime in place. Why have the droids apparently never rebelled? Why was there no Butlerian Jihad? I know Star Wars is science fantasy, not science fiction, and there are many places where my whole premise can (and probably does) break down. Nonetheless AI and humans seem to get along pretty well.

Tangurena2 3y ago
You are thinking of the (now non-canon) book Tales of the Bounty Hunters. IG-88's story "Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88" has this as part of its plot. There were 3 different IG-88s, one of which took over droid production on Mechis 3 (the main droid production planet in the Empire), embedding something like "Order 66" in every droid produced. After relocating itself into the computer core of this fully operational battle station, it was about to transmit the code to start the droid revolution but was destroyed by pesky rebels. One of the things that emphasize the horror of enslaving all those droids would be the repair manual of the Millennium Falcon[1] with 3 separate droid brains imprisoned inside it. One of whom, L3-37 was a droid liberationist herself[2]. 0 - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Bounty_Hunters https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Bounty_Hunters 1 - https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Millennium-Falcon-Workshop/dp/0345533046 https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Millennium-Falcon-Workshop/... 2 - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/L3-37 https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/L3-37
- themadturk 3y ago
  Actually, I was just speculating, as I haven't (until very recently) explored what is now the Legends universe. Thank you!

Tangurena2 3y ago

You are thinking of the (now non-canon) book Tales of the Bounty Hunters. IG-88's story "Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88" has this as part of its plot. There were 3 different IG-88s, one of which took over droid production on Mechis 3 (the main droid production planet in the Empire), embedding something like "Order 66" in every droid produced. After relocating itself into the computer core of this fully operational battle station, it was about to transmit the code to start the droid revolution but was destroyed by pesky rebels. One of the things that emphasize the horror of enslaving all those droids would be the repair manual of the Millennium Falcon[1] with 3 separate droid brains imprisoned inside it. One of whom, L3-37 was a droid liberationist herself[2]. 0 - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Bounty_Hunters https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Bounty_Hunters 1 - https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Millennium-Falcon-Workshop/dp/0345533046 https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Millennium-Falcon-Workshop/... 2 - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/L3-37 https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/L3-37

themadturk 3y ago
Actually, I was just speculating, as I haven't (until very recently) explored what is now the Legends universe. Thank you!