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"I'm searching for my master, who is traveling with an R2 astromech, a thermocapsulary dehousing assister who has a bit of a nasty temper and…"
―C-3PO[1]

Thermocapsulary dehousing assister was a job that could be performed by R2-series astromech droids. The protocol droid C-3PO once described his counterpart R2-D2, a feisty R2 unit, as a thermocapsulary dehousing assister.[1]

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