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Post #1270348

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ZkinandBonez
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General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread
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Date created
19-Feb-2019, 4:22 PM

SilverWook said:

Why don’t we see androids in the SW universe? Given Luke’s prosthetic hand, a life like android ought not to be a stretch. Is there a canonical reason?
I know at least one appeared in the old Marvel comic, which they went out of their way to say was non-sentient for some reason. And Valance the Hunter was able to conceal his half cybernetic face when it suited him.
That cyborgs were routinely discriminated against might be one factor against androids, but that could purely be a Marvel invention.

We know there are anti-droid sentiments held by some in the OT, but there are scenarios where an android might be useful on both sides of the conflict.

Guri from Shadows of the Empire was an android meant to mimic a human, and unlike Viscount Tardi (from the Marvel comic story you mentioned) she had emotions like other droids. She even got her own miniseries.

The reason androids so rarely appear might simply be because they feel a bit out of place in SW, despite the fact that we’ve seen Luke with a pretty real-looking robot hand. People kind of associate SW with that retro-look (like Threepio) so adding androids to the movies would probably feel a bit weird to some people. Luke’s hand I imagine was to avoid having to replace it with an effect all the time.

(As a side note; as a kid I always thought that Lobot was meant to be an android. I’m actually still a litle bit disappointed that he’s just a human with cybernetic implants.)