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[t65]

[Hey, it's Luke Skywalker, sitting at his pastel desk. There's plenty of junk littered on it, mostly scraps of droid parts and tools, but the inquisitive observer will notice a few mystery vials of colorful chemicals, and a hypo of fast-penta scattered among the rubble.]

I noticed there aren't any service droids on the ship-- when I mentioned that to the captains, they said I should... make some? [Luke has a distinct look of 'what have I gotten myself into' on his face.] We definitely need some mouse droids and basic repair droids-- we already have good engineers, but this would help them out in a pinch. Do you think we need gonk droids?

[Well? Do you?]

Have you noticed any droids we could use? A 1B prototype couldn't hurt...

[That's right, request a droid, Luke might be able to make it for you eventually. He's serious. Though they probably won't have much in the way of lively personalities, who doesn't want a robot?]

Oh- and Doctor Yewll? Mr Banner? Ed? I know we discussed some kind of prosthetic... if I'm going to be making droids, I might need that sooner than later. [He kind of cringe smiles before cutting the feed.]

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[keelahselai]

[Tali can't give him a properly bemused look from behind the opaque visor she has on in engineering, so she can only hope the way she's tilting her head at the MID will do.]

If I knew what a gonk droid or a 1B prototype were...maybe they'd be helpful?

[Also, this is definitely Luke Skywalker, but maybe she'll just wait and see if he recognises her before she says anything. She's had the awkward, 'hey, I know you!...you don't know me. Oh' thing happen before.]

[t65]

[Luke kind of squints. Is he talking to a droid right now? No, a droid wouldn't possibly ask about droid models, right?]

[Right?]

[Uh, Luke, talk to the nice person / droid on the other end.]

Oh! [He needs a PR agent.] A gonk droid's just another name for a power droid. They make this 'gonking' noise... anyway, they're really just walking batteries.

1Bs are a line of medical droids! They're very helpful.

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[knaval]

[riptide feels like this should offend him, but it doesn't.]

I got a cleaning thing once! [camera pan to the chore bot. never mind the graffiti and autobrands all over it...] Do you mean stuff like this?

[t65]

[Luke peers at it, kind of fascinated.] I've never seen one like that before! What's its model?

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[ex_forcechoke292]

[Kid, did you say "make droids" because, oh boy. But really Luke, what did you just get yourself into?]

I don't know why they didn't think of this earlier, it's not like they know what's wrong with this scrapheap as-is.

[He glances back at a stationary astromech that looks a lot like Artoo and sighs. It, unlike Artoo, doesn't beep back. What a disappointment.]

Do you do this regularly?

[It's not a question asked with any skepticism. Leia seems to have inherited her mother's job...with something of a...very different disposition, it stands to reason, perhaps, that the familial similarities don't stop there. HE'S SO INTERESTED, LUKE, PLEASE TELL HIM ABOUT DROIDS.]

[t65]

[When faced with the spectre of his terrifying father asking weird questions about his childhood, Luke doesn't really know what to say.]

[And then he spots it.]

Where did you get R2?

[bloodredsky]

[Droids? Oh, robots. Akito's curious, he's never built anything so complicated before but he does love mechanical stuff]

You can build droids? [All his curious] I can guess what the repair ones do, but what do mouse and gonk droids do?

[t65]

Mouse droids are little repair units. Gonk droids are just walking power conservers. [With a shrug.] Do you have something that needs repairs?

[quixotically]

Droids... Like -- What do you mean?

[She has... no frame of reference for that word. What does that mean? It looks like he might have parts of robots around there on that table, but that doesn't mean much. That may just be where he decided to make his video.]

[t65]

[It takes Luke a minute to remember the proper world, like how frequently someone uses the word automobile transport versus car.]

It's short for android. A droid is... an automated robotic unit, I guess. They really don't have them on your system?

[sparkwhisperer]

[Tarn is extremely offended by this sentiment. Although the majority of his expression is obscured by his mask, insult shines brightly in his optics.]

Are you suggesting that this ship use slave-labor in the form of mechanical races?

[t65]

[Luke just kind of squints.]

No...?

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[straightouttacarbonite]

What, they're not keeping you busy enough?

[t65]

[Luke holds up the twitching leg of what might be, some day, maybe, a repair droid.]

I think they figured out I'm not a great defense... officer. [He's already forgotten the name of his last job.] They gave me a manual and everything. [He holds up Shmi Skywalker's journal; he hasn't read it yet, and continues on with the assumption that the holodiary is actually meant to instruct him at his new job.]

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[deal]

What exactly is a gonk droid?

[She can act like she knows the importance of droids, that's easy to do. She can see how repair ones would be useful, but she can't even start to pretend that she knows what a gonk droid is or what it does. She's interested in hearing about it though, and hopes that she looks relatively friendly so he doesn't thinks he's criticizing him. She's not, she just fails at socializing.]

[t65]

[Luke has been asked this enough times that he's started building one, and holds up the top half of an empty outer shell to illustrate. It's far from the finished product, though.]

They're like walking batteries. A lot of engineers find them convenient. They really helped when I did repairs on the hangar at base.

[ersatzeverything]

Can you make a FISTO?

[Not that Deacon needs a FISTO, but the urge to troll was too strong...]

[quixotically]

Oh my god, how do you know about that?

[imaginary_wife]

Yeah. I have the infirmary ready and some mock-ups made if you want to take a look at them.

Question, though. These service droids, how self-aware are they?

[t65]

I'll be right over.

Self-aware... [He's never heard droids described like that before.] Oh, no. We don't really need anything with a full personality matrix. Repair and labor droids follow simple orders, that's all.

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[inruins]

Do you have enough parts to make droids? Will the salvage we've picked up from that station be enough to make a few? It seems like a particularly involved process to start upon.

[t65]

It looks like I have more parts than I need. [Luke picks up what appears to be a tiny metal kicking leg.] It's not hard, at least, if you have two hands and a hydrospanner... [With his one (1) hand, he holds up one (1) hydrospanner.]

[dust_of_life]

[A startled, bewildered look crosses Fatima's face for a second. Like she's seen a ghost. But she quickly shakes it off.

No. That's not him. He's not here.]

I'm sorry...what's a "gonk droid?"

[t65]

[Luke moves his MID so the image pans out to show the half-completed outer shell of, you guessed it, a gonk droid.]

They're power droids. Have you got them in your system?

[whatdidisay]

"Droids"?

( guess who's scifi universe doesn't include robots?? this guy's. )

[t65]

[Luke slowly runs his hand down his face.] People around here keep calling them robots.

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[goodluckkobra]

What about pleasure droids?

[ He's joking. Mostly. ]

All we really had left where I'm from.

[t65]

[Squints.]

I... don't think we really need those right now. [Or. Ever.]

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[padbae]

[ Luke suddenly reminds Padmé so much of the little boy she remembers Anakin to once be (his hair cut is almost the same even) and she smiles. ]

A friend of mine once made a protocol droid....though I doubt he'd be much help here. He's always been particularly finicky.

[t65]

I think protocol droids are always finicky. Some kind of feedback in the interaction relays...

We could use some kind of translator droid, though.

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[redshitlord]

Ummmm, Luke? Buddy?

J-just as a head's up? Maybe... don't talk to the creepy purple dude? He's bad news, okay.

[t65]

He started it!

[earthandpine]

Some of us aren't from worlds with droids, so you might need to explain the vocabulary before asking what the ship needs.

[She has a slightly more advanced robot than most of the small bots on the ship, but no one's called it a droid yet.]]

[t65]

[Luke struggles not to roll his eyes, and believe me, it's a struggle.] Some people here call them robots? [What a dumb name.] Androids?