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Respawn Entertainment ’s upcomingStar war Jedi : Fallen Orderhas already introduce us to Cal Kestis , the game ’s protagonist , and like many otherStar Warscharacters that came before him Cal is accompanied by his very own droid , BD-1 . Designed for research and exploration help , these particular BD - units are quite different from the BD-3000 seen inRevenge of theSithandThe Clone Wars . rather of a humanoid waitress - like figure , BD-1 resemble a brace of binoculars with the peg of a flexible AT - ST , open of running , jumping , and even riding on Cal ’s shoulders . He is also design to be unapologetically cute .
So far , Respawn is being rather placid on just what upgrade and benefits BD-1 will have for the player during gameplay , make unnecessary for a quick mention of a glare function and of the droid being able to touch on some of Cal ’s wellness . Gameplay scenes from E3 , however , show the droid expose a holographic map for the player to test in lieu of a fare and do R2 - same functions like unlocking doors and blare at dramatically or comedically appropriate moments . While indeed cute , BD-1 ’s inclusion is yet another in a curious trend of video games introducing unique droids not ascertain anywhere else in theStar Warsuniverse instead of use pre - existing canon .
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LicensedStar Warsgames have a long story of introducing newfangled droids to the serial , but many of them are no longer considered logical since the Disney unification . While these animatronic additions seldom skip medium and get featured in the mainstream film , that has n’t stopped secret plan creators like DICE from sacrifice their own take on obscureStar Warslore , adding the ID10 quester droid toBattlefront IIafter its first reference in the biz ’s prequel bookBattlefront II : Inferno Squad . One need not reckon far to find other examples of exclusive video game droids , from the one - off PROXY holodroid ofThe Force Unleashed(also , interestingly , first introduced in the secret plan ’s companion novel ) to thedual additions of the HK - series bravo and the T3 - series utility droids ofKnights of the Old Republic .
It goes even farther back than that . In 1999 developer Totally Games created MK-09 forStar Wars : X - Wing Alliance , and it was four years earlier , in 1995 , when LucasArts itself added theDark Trooper toStar Wars : Dark Forces , an enemy which would go on to appear in lashings of other games but still , peculiarly , not the film . In between these two title there was also the handout ofStar Wars : Droid Works , which not only included a unexampled animatronic fibre in the cast of Holocam E but was only free-base around the player build new character of droids . Droids are everywhere - even Google Android substance abuser are walking around with littleStar Warsrobots in their pockets due to LucasFilm copyrighting the Word of God back in 2008 .
TheStar Warsuniverse is one filled with all different makes and modelling of droids . Servant droids , free droids , functional droids , assassin droids ; while they can be both an expression of the creator ’s love ofStar Warslore and creative new part with which to tell a floor , it ’s intemperate to ignore the overarching ground so many different types of droids live , which is to deal toy . Whether they seem in the theatrical films or not , fan and accumulator both skip over at the chance to own fashionable and obscure patch of memorabilia . WithDisney ’s announced lengthening of theStar Warsfranchiseinto the foreseeable future andJedi : Fallen Ordercoming November 15th , we can only mourn for the poor editors of Wookiepedia , whose tilt of droids grows longer every Christmas .
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