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"I am D-O."
―D-O[7]

D-O was a droid, believe it or not.

Biography

A life of no thank yous

"What is it, Dee-Oh?"
"I-I-I-"
"Spit it out or I'll leave you outside again tonight. See how your lubricant likes the cold again, eh?"
―Ochi and D-O, as D-O tries to inform Ochi of a disturbance at his workspace[4]

The droid D-O was custom-built in the workshop of an individual who was a droidsmith[2] and a scholar[4] in their workshop.[source?] In a library on Primus Cabru, D-O plead for his life after witnessing the Sith assassin Ochi murder his master while the assassin raided the library. Ochi realized D-O's utility—his data storage, language, and algorithms—and took the droid for his own.[4]

By 21 ABY,[8] D-O lived on a moon in the Inner Rim with Ochi. Ochi had set up a workspace in his ship, the Bestoon Legacy, that extended to the area around the ship, protected from the moon's sand by pipework and heavy plastoid tarp. The custom-built droid made a nest put of paper in a nearly hidden corner of the ship, next to his recharge port.[4]

In 21 ABY,[8] while outside in the moon's atmosphere, D-O witnessed a disturbance near Ochi's workspace. The droid called for Ochi's attention, though once he had it, he struggled to inform Ochi of the threat. After the assassin threatened the droid, D-O rolled to the top of a nearby dune and motioned towards their encampment. Ochi became annoyed when he failed to see anything, and punished D-O by smacking him with a black pipe from his belt, which caused the droid to slide forward and shove his nose into the sand. Ochi held D-O down with his boot on the back of his head as the scared droid tried to wheel himself free. Ochi warned him to not waste his time again and kicked the droid down the slope they stood upon. As D-O came to a stop, he tried to remove sand from his body by shaking his head and apologized to Ochi.[4]

Characteristics

D-O was an impressionable custom-build droid without a malice subroutine in his personality matrix. He spoke a less complex form of binary[2] in a high-pithced voice and often stammered when speaking. D-O's sensors were sensitive, which impressed Ochi enough to trust the droid if he got the assassin's attention.[4]

D-O's base featured a single tread around a disc with a rebalancing gyroscopic system, that made the droid appear jittery. An arm connected to the disc's side and attached to the droid's head's base by a primary articulation point. A power recharge coupler resided below the arm with a powerbus cable running from it to the head's base.[2]

Equipment

Behind the scenes

"It's always about simple silhouettes, that's what works beautifully in Star Wars. Just as much as BB-8, you can distill down to a hemisphere and a spere, this droid can be distilled down to a triangle and a circle."
―Lunt Davies[9]
"In the scene on Ochi's freighter where BB-9 finds D-O and brings him back to functionality, you've got challenges, well, because it was just pure puppetry. It was just we had to get in there and hit the marks and introduce this new character into Star Wars."
―Brian Herring[9]
"Like a duckling, he sort of latches onto the first sort of thing he sees. He's a very sort of fun, constantly moving, inquisitive child, more of a child than BB-8."
―Lunt Davies[9]
"We started on some D-O sound design for his vocals, and that went through a dozen different interations before we landed on where it is now."
―David Accord[9]
"That's J.J. He kept telling me what kind of voice he wanted. He kept telling me what kind of actor he wanted and different traits of what that droid was like. And, in the back of my head, I was like, 'That actually sounds like J.J.'"
―Matthew Wood[9]
"There was a scene I had to do with just D-O. We're in Babu Frik's workshop and C-3PO, for all we know, is gone. Like, it's horrifying. So I have to walk away, and I had to sit there, but D-O just goes squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak. And J.J. was laughing so much, I thought we were never going to get through it."
―Daisy Ridley[9]
"BB-8 has been there for two films. We love him, and he just said, 'I don't want Rey to be as warm to D-O just yet.'"
―Daisy Ridley, discussing J.J. Abrams's thoughts[9]
"D-O was just left in neglect on the ship by Ochi of Bestoon, and Rey says to him, essentially, you might have a bad past, but you're with friends now. And that, sort of, is the feeling of the whole film, that Poe didn't have such a great past, finn didn't have such a great past, Rey didn't have such a great past, and nor did BB-8. But now that they're together, they're friends, and they're going to look out for each other."
―Chris Terrio[9]
"D-O's personality is my dog. His name is George. My other dog is Charles, whose life has been totally fine. But George had a really rough life at a shelter in Arkansas. So he literally repeats evertything Charles does. He just follows him around. When I found George, he had a chain around his neck and was outdoors, soaking wet in the rain. And he didn't even know how to accept kindess. When they find D-O aboard Ochi's ship, he's like that. Then he comes out and wants to imitate everything that his big brother BB-8 does."
―Co-screen writer Chris Terrio[10]

D-O was created for the third film of the sequel trilogy, Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker, which premiered December 19, 2019.[source?] D-O was introduced during the Episode IX Panel at Celebration Chicago on April 12, 2019, before the movie's teaser trailer was shown.[11] The spelling of his name was confirmed as "D-O" the same day in an article highlighting the teaser trailer on StarWars.com.[12]


He was performed by Lynn Robertson Bruce puppeterring the head and Robin Guiver controling the body.[9]


D-O's design went through multiple phases with creature concept designers Jake Lunt Davies and Luke Fisher contributing sketches. Davies sketched multiple designs for D-O with some incorporating a single-wheel and others the cone-shaped head,[10] both of which J.J. Abrams liked.[9] Davies also incorporated the silhouette of a duckling in some of his designs, with D-O being described as a freshly hatched duckling, attaching to BB-8.[10] Phase Two of D-O's design explored a 1970's and 1980's feel, incorporating projectors of the time, Art Deco lamps and metal work, and Chinon and Halina cameras.[10] During the design process, Davies explored D-O's emotional expressions through series of drawings in a cartoon style. In the that series of sketches, the end design for the body existed, but Davies went through multiple iterations before returning to the final design.[10]

Phase Three of D-O's design settled on the cone head and wheeled body, but explored the colors, eyes, and nose. Nose designs included radar dishes and popper-pots. The eye designs varied in both design—including piano keys and raised circles—and numbers. Color choices included yellow paired with white or black, cyan paired with orange, white paired with black, and grey paired with white.[10]

Green paired with white was chosen was the color to be complementary to BB-8's white and orange as well as R2-D2's,[10] blue and white.[source?] Part of D-O's design making him feel like he was made after R2-D2, but before BB-8.[10] D-O's meeting of BB-8 was originally planned to occur in Babu Frik's workshop, before being moved to the Bestoon Legacy.[10]

Silly billy mistakes

In the canon reference book Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition,[13] which released October 4, 2019,[14] D-O's creator is mistakenly listed as Babu Frik.[13] This was corrected in multiple sources that followed.

Appearances

Non-canon appearances

Sources

D-O IS IN THE OPENING MONTAGE OF A LOT OF THIS WEEK IN STAR WARS

Non-canon sources

Notes and references

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
  3. ↑ 2024 Topps Star Wars Chrome Card: D-0 (backup link)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Shadow of the Sith
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: Character Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded Edition
  6. ↑ 2023 Topps Star Wars Card: D-O (backup link)
  7. ↑ Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Shadow of the Sith to 21 ABY.
  9. ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 Star Wars home video releases — "D-O: Key to the Past" Featurette
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
  11. ↑ SWYT-Logo Star Wars: Episode IX Panel | Star Wars Celebration Chicago 2019 on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (April 12, 2019) (backup link)
  12. ↑ StarWars.com SWCC 2019: 7 Highlights from the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Teaser by Baver, Kristin on StarWars.com (April 12, 2019) (backup link)
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
  14. ↑ DK-Logo Ultimate Star Wars New Edition on Dorling Kindersley's official United States website (backup link)

External links

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