Why do people need mass slavery in star wars where there are droids? I can understand the concept of having sadistic urges or prized pets or fetishism like Jabba an Leia. But what is the point of it at place where droids are abundantly available literally anywhere and are so simple even children can put them together and re program them to do whatever. Plus they are so advanced they are capable of doing almost any task an organic can even very complicated tasks. Be it basic manual labor, surgery, piloting your ship, or bounty hunting to even leading an army.
Now of course having a droid do something special like surgery, bounty hunting or army management will probably require a lot of valuable hardware and programming. But needing slaves to just mine stone and build starships why wouldn't you use droids that can do that far more efficiently. Organic slaves expire fast, they need to be fed, they can rebel, they have tons of other biological needs that droid don't have.
Kevin Hall
droids cost money people don't
Bentley Adams
Droids need expert maintenance by a trained professional. Slaves need a guy pointing a gun at them.
Also, if you go too far with droids, you get a droid rebellion, which Star Wars has been through more than once.
Dylan Morris
Sure you don't need to have slavers to capture them for you, you don't need to feed them, you don't need to let them sleep, you don't need to have guards to keep them working, you don't need to provide life support for them while they work, you do not need to have slavers regularly bringing more of them after they expire. All those things are completely free.
Gabriel Gutierrez
Not all droids are programmed for every language. Some races/people have an aversion to nonfleshy sentience. Some people just like what torment does to others.
Nolan Ramirez
But the guards are dirt cheap and common, while the repairmen are rare, expensive and likely to leave your shitty planet for a better one the moment they get a chance.
Tyler Kelly
sure you don't need to have someone build your droid for you, you don't need to power them, you don't need to make sure the parts stay in working condition, you don't need to get insurance on them, you don't need to upgrade the models on them. All those things are completely free.
Aiden Anderson
>Droids need expert maintenance by a trained professional. Why can't you just have another droid programmed for maintenance?
Zachary Murphy
Because Jabba has slaves, so therefore all Hutts are slavers, so therefore slavery is a galaxy-wide thing.
Just like how the two twi'leks we saw are a ruthless businessman and a slave, so twi'leks are a race whose sole export is selling one another into slavery.
Just like how the one Mandalorian we saw was a badass (in fanfiction), so all Mandalorians are badasses.
etc.
Welcome to the entire basis of all extended universe lore: we saw it once in a movie, so it's like that everywhere.
Parker Russell
Because droids develop quirks and personalities after being left alone too long or if you make them too smart. Putting a droid in charge of keeping other droids from going independent is a recipe for disaster.
Dylan Thomas
>why not just more droids CIS plz go
Mason Foster
What happens if that droid gets broken or sabotaged?
James Long
droids are dangerous droids can become independent droids can end organic life droids have a cultural stigma from the clone wars But mostly there's an AI limit on star wars that's setting unique. Really clever droids are always consigned to Prototype/unique area. Just a part of the setting, the same way the force is.
Charles Perez
But really how hard is it to build and maintain a droid? When seemingly even children can build them just by using junk and program them to do whatever. Ignoring Anakin being a special snowflake chosen one, others did it too, in the Clone Wars Jaybo Hood had many Battle droids being his menservants, he even had vulture droids that are starfighter ships.
Julian Ramirez
The same logic was applied to the EU itself >Thrawn is a cold rational guy >all the chiss are cold rational guys >Xizor is a green skinned pheromone rapist Gangster >all his species are green skinned pheromone rapist gangsters I could go on for ages.
Charles Wright
It depends very, very highly on your location.
Jaybo was on a planet literally infested with droids, which facilitated him being able to reprogram and tinker with the ones in better shape.
Isaac Ross
>But really how hard is it to build and maintain a droid? You need a trained professional to do it, and people in the core worlds will pay for those more than people on a backwater like Tatooine can, which is why they use slaves instead.
>When seemingly even children can build them just by using junk and program them to do whatever. Anakin isn't a child, he's baby Force Jesus, custom made by a master of the dark side.
>Jaybo Hood Also a special snowflake. From the planet Lego. Kek.
Kayden Edwards
>Anakin isn't a child, he's baby Force Jesus, custom made by a master of the dark side. >custom made by a master of the dark side >custom made wut
Liam Allen
>custom made by a master of the dark side Well custom made is a bit strong way to say it he was more of an experiment.
Julian Diaz
Darth Plagueis, the guy who trained Palpatine before palps killed him in his sleep used force fuckery to make some kind of superior Sith being.
He thought he failed, but he actually caused Anakin's mom to get pregnant because sith magic. This is why little Vader doesn't have a father and they talk about him being conceived by midichlorians.
Josiah Diaz
Because droids in star wars run as much as used star ship depending on the model.
Jacob Barnes
that's fucking kick ass, why don't they talk about it in the movies
Charles Morgan
Because it is not an important information piece for the story.
Lincoln Cook
Because most of the cool stuff happens in the AU. Admittedly, most of the retarded stuff also happens in the AU, but the good stands out more than the bad.
Sebastian Parker
From what I have seen of fluff and games, droids come in two flavors over the 4 degrees the setting has.
What makes droids like C3PO and R2D2 so valuable is heuristic brains, allowing them to adapt themselves to their surrounding and learn. Hence one they being able to fly ships when not built to, one being able to avoid the mind wipe and just everything they did on Geonosis.
The other type, with normal and cheaper robo brains, act like factory equipment. A loader bot only loads cargo and will not react unless directly sliced. A normal astromech droid might be able to repair things along with doing astrometric calculations along with why most protocol droids are walking speak and spells.
That is why you do not see loaders and mouse droids growing personalities but battle droids, who have to have heuristic operating series do.
Logan Thomas
In the outter rim there may not be cheap manufacturing to build a lot of droids. where as there's lots of poor people.
Jackson Carter
Or... You could force the repairman to be your slave. Now you don't have to pay him. You can keep all your droids in tip-top shape assuming you can afford the parts.
Yes, then the droids kill the guards and proceed to kill everyone else because you left the guy who hates you in charge of them. You also don't know enough about droids to notice that he's setting them up to kill you until it's too late.
Not to mention that he can make them steal part of what they are making and you can't notice because he's the one with all the knowledge.
Blake Morris
Plagueis actually being directly responsible for creating Anakin was never canon even in Legends. His experiments lead to a backlash by the Force, which created Anakin in turn as a way to fix what Plagueis and Palpatine were up to.
Levi Torres
>His experiments lead to a backlash by the Force, which created Anakin in turn as a way to fix what Plagueis and Palpatine were up to. You can't really get much more directly responsible than that.
Gavin Cook
The Empire used slave labor because, being a totalitarian regime where any dissidence was harsly punished, they had tons of political prisoners that they might as well put to work in mines or something until they die, instead of just executing them or letting them sit in cells untill they die. Plus, the CIS in the Clone Wars used a fuckton of battle droids, so the general opinion on using droids "unnecessarily" is likely to be quite negative.
Caleb Wright
There was also slavery going on during the republic, but that's mostly a side effect of it being a corrupt, inefficient mess.
Adrian Cooper
Can't fuck a droid.
Ryan Miller
It's a big galaxy. Someone out there will be willing to pay for a sexbot, which means that someone out there will make and sell one.
Cooper Martin
How about ACTUALLY creating him, as implied by the posts I quoted?
Plagueis didn't create Anakin. His actions lead to Anakin being created by the Force. There's a major difference between being directly responsible as creating something, and being directly responsible for magic creating something to cancel out what you've done.
