Helper droid factory

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"This factory builds helper droids. These are the most evil droids ever known to the galaxy."
―Draykken Bender, to a spacer[1]

A droid factory manufacturing helper droids was located on Corellia during the Galactic Civil War.

History

"I simply cannot wait another minute. We must be going soon, R2. Those helper droids, quite frankly, send a shiver down my circuits."
―C-3PO, to R2-D2[2]
alongside a smaller helper droid.

QU3-3N alongside a smaller helper droid.

The droid factory was located in an isolated area of forested hills on the planet Corellia. The factory produced helper droids, variants of R2-series astromech droids which would give people repetitive advice on their respective professions. The manufacturing operations were oversaw by the droid QU3-3N.[1]

In 1 ABY,[3] the droid factory was targeted by Draykken Bender, a leader of the Meatlumps, a group technology-hating Corellian terrorists. Draykken and Hraykken Bender tasked a spacer with attacking the factory to destroy as much helper droids as possible. The spacer therefore fought and destroyed most helper droids in the droid factory, including QU3-3N.[1]

Around the same time, the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 also moved to the droid factory in order to study the programming of the helper droids. C-3PO requested a spacer to retrieve several droid interfaces for further analysis.[2]

Behind the scenes

The helper droid factory was a location in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[4] The helper droid factory was added to the game with the "Game Update 10," released on June 2, 2009.[5]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Revenge At Last!" on Corellia
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Legacy Quest: "Those Things Last Forever" on Corellia
  3. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  4. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  5. ↑ Gal-icon Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 10 on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)

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