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lookout123 said:
yeah - they really screwed up on the R2 bit IMO. if R2 was so high tech then, why was he so relatively low tech and slow moving 20 years later?
My theory: The Empire started including behavior governors and location homers in upgrades further and further down the electronic "food chain", as bureaucracy proliferated. This always breeds official paranoia, leading to rules Nazis and the exponential growth of paperwork. A droid in use by the Rebel Alliance would be a great mole, so maybe they stopped upgrading R2-D2 and C-3PO and all the others who were attached to Alliance major players. Think how far tech would advance in 20 years in a massive conglomeration of spacefaring cultures...and how much worse poverty could get for those deliberately staying off the Empire's radar.
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