3PO was lucky that R2 shoved him off the sail barge before it exploded, and their friends plucked them out of the sand before leaving Tatooine. C-3PO was much less help, and had one of his eyes (temporarily) pulled out by Salacious Crumb, a monkey-lizard who was either Jabba's court jester or his pet, depending on who you ask. Eventually the plan came together, and when Luke needed his lightsaber for the rescue, it turned out R2-D2 had been secretly carrying it in a hidden compartment all along. 3PO was horrified, especially when he saw how badly droids were treated there, but he served as Jabba's new translator, while R2 carried a drink tray on the Hutt's sail barge, a kind of party boat that flew over the sand. They arrived in Jabba's palace on Tatooine, and R2 played a message from Luke Skywalker saying that both droids were gifts for the Hutt. Unfortunately, Han Solo had been captured on Bespin and taken to the gangster known as Jabba the Hutt.Ĭ-3PO and R2-D2 were part of the mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, although as usual 3PO wasn't nearly as informed about the plan as R2. There R2 and the disassembled C-3PO were reunited once again, and as they escaped on the Falcon, R2 helped put his friend back together. Eventually, Luke had a vision of his friends in peril on Bespin, and he and R2 left to save them. R2's only role in Luke's Jedi training was as a weight to be lifted with the Force, and he spent a lot of time sitting around waiting in this uncomfortable environment. A swamp is a bad place for an astromech droid, and R2 quickly found himself submerged in sludge and even swallowed whole by a giant reptile, but fortunately it found him indigestible and spit him out. Meanwhile, R2-D2 went with Luke Skywalker to the swamp planet Dagobah, where Luke was to train with the Jedi Master Yoda. Fortunately, those pieces were found by Chewbacca, the tech-savvy Wookiee copilot of the Millennium Falcon, who was able to restore 3PO to consciousness but didn't have a chance to fully reassemble him. He thought he heard an R2 unit and was looking for another familiar face, but instead he encountered a squad of Imperial stormtroopers and was literally blasted to pieces. When they arrived in Cloud City on the planet Bespin, 3PO wondered away from his friends after encountering another protocol droid. He took serious damage in that battle, and C-3PO even volunteered to donate parts for his repair, but the Rebels, grateful to Luke for destroying the Death Star, did an exceptional job of repairing R2 on their own.Ĭ-3PO was mostly an annoyance as the crew of the Falcon had to hide from the Empire and navigate an asteroid field. When Luke volunteered to fly an X-Wing fighter in the attack on the Death Star, R2-D2 performed the same function for him that he had for his father, interfacing with the X-Wing's astromech slot to help the ship fly. Soon after, the droids, Luke, and Obi-Wan escaped Tatooine on board Han Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon.Īfter rescuing Leia from the Death Star, the whole group arrived at Rebel Alliance headquarters on Yavin IV. He succeeded, along with 3PO and Luke, but the Imperial search for the droids led to the murder of Luke's aunt and uncle. R2-D2, however, was determined to fulfill his mission for Princess Leia by finding the exiled Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi. On the desert planet once again (although 3PO had no memory of his original time there), the droids were captured by Jawas and sold to Owen Lars and his nephew, Luke Skywalker. This one turned out to be a hologram operated by a group of Pit Droids who were secretly running the planet themselves ("Nomad Droids," season 4). Then R2 and 3PO landed on the planet Balnab, which was also ruled by a dictator. C-3PO introduced them to the concept of democracy, but it only led to more fighting as the droids made their escape. R2-D2 accidentally squashed the tiny despot, to the delight of the other Patitites, who then helped the droids repair their ship. The Patitites brought them before their dictator, Hay-Zu, who considered all off-worlders to be enemies. In one of their strangest adventures, R2-D2 and C-3PO made an emergency landing on the planet Patitite Pattuna, where they were tied up Gulliver-style by the tiny inhabitants. When R2 and 3PO found themselves trapped beneath the planet's surface, they discovered a way to stop the quakes, earning the eternal gratitude of the Aleena people ("Mercy Mission," season 4). The droids were heroes in their own right when they were sent to the quake-ridden planet Aleen as a part of a relief effort.
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