Why Battle Droids Deserved Better

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  @generalmemus1567 · 3 years ago

  I always hated the fact that "this is ths main character, so he can't be shot". Like atleast make the droids a bit badass

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  @Rodrigo_Vega · 4 years ago (edited)

  It would be pretty scary and themetically and aesthetically fitting if battle droids repeatedly "rose" from the ground dramatically and continued fighting like re-animated skeletons from a Ray Harryhausen movie after being knocked down or split in half.

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  @thespidermanoftheottomanempire · 4 years ago

  I’ll never forget the Fan Theory that the Droids being more comical in the Clone Wars compared to the movies is due to the increased trauma they faced over time in combat…

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  @Shoulderpads-mcgee · 1 year ago

  Star wars is the kind of universe to program walking batteries to feel pain and scream while in pain when their only other vocal ability is saying their name

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  @elijahocasio3622 · 3 years ago

  “It won’t matter💔” most heart breaking quote of all time

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  @QuestionableObject · 4 years ago

  The fact that just about all droids in Star Wars seem to have <b>some</b> level of sentience leads me to conclude that the only sensible reason (at least that I can come up with, other than the non-diegetic &quot;writers keep thinking its funny/fun&quot;) is that there&apos;s some kind of Warhammer 40K style standard template for creating droid &quot;brains&quot; and that nobody actually knows how to make droid brains and just keep copying basic templates with minor tweaks, so nobody really knows how to make a functional droid without the baggage of crippling self-awareness.

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  @jessedickersin6253 · 4 years ago

  As a kid, I usually found Clones getting their necks snapped pretty disturbing. I assume they made Battle Droids into comic relief characters just to ease the tension, and robots with silly human emotions is just funny.

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  @Minronis · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOO11vf3u4&amp;t=1448">24:08</a> Actually its the primary reason I believe memory wipes are frequently utilized as part of a droid&apos;s maintenance: they start to develop &apos;quirks&apos; or &apos;oddities&apos; when left too long without a memory wipe. However, in some cases of long lived droids, they actually have a &apos;ghost in the machine&apos;, as memories return to them despite frequent memory wipes. The Empire, in order to keep their droids even more docile, would perform memory wipes much more frequently. In the case of the B1s, their quirks were likely because their memory cores were mass produced and developed quirks much faster.

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  @mrfraud7403 · 4 years ago

  For anyone wondering why the B1s were so emotional for war machines, the canon explanation is that they weren’t originally designed to do specific tasks in the army. I can’t remember where but I saw a good video on it a while ago so I might be paraphrasing a bit. <br><br>Basically the B1s were originally owned by the trade federation and used to collect on debt.Those who owed debt would typically not have an army of their own to defend themselves with, so the B1s would have been used mainly for intimidation. <br><br>Later on - around Attack of the Clones time - the trade federation officially joined the separatist alliance and the B1s were required to perform more specific and diverse tasks.The B1 software underwent no real change but larger and more complicated programs were downloaded onto them. This meant that the B1s had an inadequate memory to store these programs and some could be overwritten or lost.The result was that the droids struggled to cope with complex situations and began to become more talkative to deal with the “stress” of being under qualified for their jobs by nature. <br><br>Since any kind of improvement to the B1s would be expensive to the separatists and B1s were meant to be cheap canon fodder, there was no incentive for them to fix these problems. They were fighting a war of attrition against the republic, and were more successful than their onscreen portrayal gives them credit for.<br><br>Additionally, after The Phantom Menace the droids switch from being centrally controlled by a command centre to being more independent as this was seen as a weakness.An original B1 could be seen as no more than a glorified remote controlled car.<br><br>All in all, B1s are unsuited to most forms of conflict- aside from open warfare where they should dominate due to their narrow profile and superior numbers.<br><br>If you got all the way to the end of this mini essay, thanks for reading and giving me and excuse to write about droids!<br><br>TL;DR droids are meant to be debt collectors and don’t have enough processing power to fight effectively in the clone war.

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  @justadood3679 · 3 years ago

  it&apos;s all the more disturbing when you remember that the clones were basically child soldiers fighting droids with childish personalities

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  @brumpotungus464 · 4 years ago

  Canon explanations for their intelligence include the fact that after the phantom menace, they stopped using command ships and central brains, so each battle droid was outfitted with simple droid brains, but due to the nature of their programming, they develop quirks and oddities that essentially cripple their efficiency, remember In attack of the clones how hundreds of Jedi were killed by battle droids in the arena fight, but the mass produced droids made at the beginning of the clone wars suffer from those quirks and oddities that make them say funny things and fail at their job

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  @TheShow684 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOO11vf3u4&amp;t=118">1:58</a> Excuse me, if skywalker can build a protocol droid from scratch that can translate ALMOST EVERY KNOW LANGUAGE IN STAR WARS at age 10. Repair a pod racer from a severely damaged one, he can probably hack a ship. [I agree that droids deserved a LOT better]

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