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Post #366509

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ChainsawAsh
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Info & Ideas: ESB and ROTJ Wishlist
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Date created
21-Jun-2009, 9:41 PM

My assumption would be that restraining bolts are a quick and dirty way of bypassing the droids' current programming, programming that might make it impossible for, say, Luke to give an order to a droid legally owned by the Royal House of Alderaan.  The restraining bolt is like a DRM crack for droids.