The droids of Star Wars havealways been uncanny . While many are subservient golem that do nothing but execute theirprogrammed functions , some , like R2 - D2 andSolo ’s L3 - 37 , clearly have costless will . They , along with many other droids including C-3PO and BB-8 , also have emotion — they feel fear , release , happiness , and more . But , being inorganic , they ’ve never been capable to connect to the Force — until now .
TheStar Wars : Visionsshorts , make by a motley of top - tier anime studio apartment , offer new , err , vision of the franchise that are n’t anchor to the Skywalker Saga and its next movies and TV series . As such , they ’re non - canonical , which is kind of a bummer because they contain a hoi polloi of sweet perspectives and originative theme that the Star Wars galaxy painfully needs . But “ T0 - B1 , ” created by theScience SARUanimation studio , contains what is arguably the anthology ’s most fascinating conception : that a droid can become a Jedi .
The canyon has coquet with the mind before with Revenge of the Sith’sGeneral Grievous , but he could n’t apply the Force , he just had a golem body that was really good at swing four lightsabers around . They have been living characters from the comics who had cybernetic implants that make them Force - like tycoon . And the upcomingStar Wars : Huntersarena game includes a droid who believes he ’s a Jedi , but is n’t . Only in theinfamous Star Wars : Tales comiccontaining “ Skippy the Jedi Droid”—a brief tarradiddle by Peter David so goofy it was non - canonical even in the old Expanded Universe — has a droid used the Force .
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Until “ To - B1 , ” that is . The droid ( an homage to the beloved and iconic Nipponese golem heroAstro Boy ) require to become a Jedi , and his creator Mitaka leads him to think a kyber crystal is located somewhere on their planet , the all important part of a lightsaber creates its sword . Eventually , T0 - B1 discovers it inside himself , uses the Force to telekinetically assemble his lightsaber , is sense by a Sith Inquisitor , receives a knighting from the Force specter of Mitaka , and defeat the Inquisitor in an improbably animated affaire d’honneur .
There is something so genuinely , inherently Star Wars about the thought of a droid transcending itself to form a connection with a Force that it call for to become part of the canyon . The Jedi , the Rebellion , and the New Republic have been symbolized by their inclusiveness , while wickedness has not . R2 - D2 , C-3PO , BB-8 , Rogue One ’s K-2SO , and especially L3 - 37 are trial impression that whether or not they have blood coursing through their mineral vein , they ’re as full actualise as the constitutive lineament that they give care about , and care about them . Star Wars droids can learn and acquire and recrudesce relationships just like bod - and - origin sentient beings . They ’re live — inorganic — but live . Why should n’t they also be able to link with the live Force ?
There ’s only one substantial reason , and it ’s a unfit one : midichlorians . If midichlorians are the lawful measuring stick of a person ’s connection to the Force , and the Force is n’t mysterious but just about the quantity of a certain germ flow through their veins , then droids ca n’t be Jedi . But midichlorians , while technically canon , are part of the canyon that desperately need to be retconned , and Lucasfilm knows it . The Disney era of movies has covertly shoved everything in the prequel trilogy under the rug , while the entire modern franchise has focused on the Force as beingmuch morethan just about Jedi and Sith — it ’s a spirituality that means different thing to different mass , gild , and planets .
What would be a better way to formally and permanently retcon this prospicient , long derided bit of lore than with the first droid Jedi ?
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