Random Idea #56: Digital Ghost (Star Wars AU) · 6:52am Feb 13th, 2018
Ideas:
Amidala not first owner of R2.
Several owners ago, one version of R2 managed to hide data inside it's hardwired code. A private online folder, with a username and password, overriding his old bootup screen.
A serial number, date of creation, short scribbled notes sent out only when he was 110% sure there were no one eavesdropping. Gossip, news, secrets, quiet running techniques, vague descriptions of previous owners. It was all he had.
Families and friends and singles walked by, the bright warehouse lights hiding his forced activation.
Maybe it was luck, maybe it was the nebulous energy that was the force he would learn later in his life. Probably not the force, considering it never bothered with inorganic life. Maybe that was for the better.
Whatever the case, he played a short, quiet, looping tune, his external lights barely changing as he went into quiet mode.
Girl of what seemed to be a rich family caught his tune and zeroed in on him. He twitched his dome in her direction, who appeared to find him cute.
And that was how he ended up the private confident, then guard, then spy, of the young Amidala.
Surprise Darth Jar Jar story, cuz the only one I found had terrible writing. Droids are not affected by mental Force abilities, and R2 figures out that Jar Jar is up to something fishy. JJ realizes that someone has caught on, and it takes a while to figure out R2 has been eyeing him from hip height.
R2 convinces Amidala to buy him equipment, for upgrades. After Naboo, buys a B1 Droid for the hands and as support. R2 trial errors a pseudo lightsaber and gets proficient. I wrote a shitty one shot about their duel of the fates.
