The Phantom Menace. In The Phantom Menace, set 32 years before A New Hope, R2-D2 is portrayed as belonging to the Naboo defense forces, one of three astromech droids deployed for repair duty onboard Queen Padmé Amidala's (Natalie Portman) starship as it attempts to get past the Trade Federation blockade.
R2-D2 was built around prior or during 32 BBY. He was one of several astromech droids on Queen Padmé Amidala's Naboo Royal Starship during the invasion of Naboo by the Trade Federation that year. The ship was used by Queen Amidala and her entourage in an attempt to pass the blockade and escape the planet.
Unlike C-3PO, little about R2-D2's previous life is known. In old Star Wars canon, he was purchased by the Royal Engineers of Naboo, who made after-market additions to the droid before shipping him out into space.
C-3PO Biography Gallery. Nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker made C-3PO from scrap parts collected in a junkyard to help his mother Shmi around their slave hovel in Mos Espa, Tatooine.
In Phantom Menace, R2 is owned by Queen Padmè Amidala. Based off of TCW and ROTS, I'm guessing that R2 is given to Anakin when they get married.
No. There is a non-canon comic of Darth Vader finding C-3PO's dismantled body at Bespin which gives an interesting, albeit blatantly non-canon look at what Vader might think. But to my knowledge there's no evidence at all that either of the droids ever met Darth Vader nor recognized him.
After C-3PO and R2-D2 landed on Tatooine, Jawas picked up the two droids, fitting them with restraining bolts. The Jawas sold the robots to Owen and Beru Lars and their nephew Luke Skywalker, a seemingly minor event that would change the fate of trillions in the galaxy.
By claiming he's never owned a droid, he applies the same tactic as he did with his embellishment about Anakin. He hasn't owned a droid because R2-D2 is his friend. No one can "own" him, and to claim to have done so disrespects the countless ways the little astromech has saved the galaxy.
Further in Empire Strikes Back, neither Yoda nor Darth Vader recognizes either droid.
R2-D2 was present when Padmé gave birth to Leia and Luke, so he knew Luke was Anakin's son – but what he didn't know was that Anakin became Darth Vader. In addition to that, Anakin's fall was surely a painful event in R2-D2's life, one that he definitely wouldn't like to remember or even talk about.
Such cycles of fate no longer surprised the nine-hundred-year-old Jedi. So there you have it. Yoda and R2D2 knew each other and the galaxy is even a smaller world than we think.
Princess Leia Organa, who had been subjected to the humiliation of being one of Jabba's slave girls, used the chain that bound her to strangle the Hutt. His body was consumed by the flames that exploded from his sail barge as the Rebels raced for freedom.
During the Clone Wars, it was common practice to wipe the minds of astromech droids after every mission to avoid the risk of Separatists taking valued information. But Anakin remained staunchly against this idea for R2-D2, meaning the droid never had to worry about losing the memories of his past.
Affiliation. R4-K5 was an astromech droid that accompanied Sith Lord Darth Vader, formerly Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, on missions for the Galactic Empire early during the Imperial Period. Once owned by a Jedi, R4-K5 was chosen for its dark hue by Vader to replace his former astromech droid, R2-D2.
After Cad Bane had kidnapped and ransacked the memory of C-3PO and R2-D2 for information on the Senate Building's layout, he only had the incident wiped from their memories to avoid having any suspicion falling on him.
He (or, rather, it) is essentially a black-painted R2-D2 because, as we learn in the video shown below, both are part of the astromech droid family. Astromechs are utility droids used to maintain machinery, but C2 is utilized by the Empire.
Vader relies on the complex life support system of his suit to survive and it happens to be very vulnerable to electrical discharges. So, if Vader ever had unleashed Force lightning, there's a good chance it would've caused his suit to short circuit, thus, killing him.
However, Leia's strong-mindedness during Vader's probe denied him the opportunity to discover she was his daughter. That serves to justify Vader's lack of awareness of his connection to Leia, although, perhaps, not as satisfyingly as if Lucas had planned for the relationship from the beginning.
Throughout her encounters with Kenobi in the series, he refers to himself as Ben. The most straightforward explanation would be that Leia knows the person who rescued her is Ben, and never connected the dots that Ben is actually Obi-Wan.
It's because of his mastery of sorsue (sorry for my bad spelling.) Well if you want the ACTUAL reason it because in the original 3 films the Green Light Sabre didn't exist until after Obi Wans death.
While, it may be true Chewbacca met Yoda and Ahsoka, there is no indication that he met Anakin. Even if Chewbacca has met Anakin, Chewbacca would have assume Anakin was one of those Jedi killed in Order 66. How would he know who Luke's father was? There is no evidence they ever met, never mind actually knew each other.
C3PO's restraining bolt put him in safe-mode and prevented him from full memory access. As an aside, R2 also had a restraining bolt, which prevented him from full message playback of Leia's "secret mission" message.
These devolved humanoids use yellow/orange gemstones to protect their eyes from the harsh suns on Tatooine, which explains their glowing eyes.
Akial was a Jawa male who was a member of the Jedi Order during the years of the Galactic Republic. He trained at the Almas Academy, a Jedi academy that was located on the planet Almas, where he specialized as a Jedi Consular.
As Luke is cleaning R2-D2, he accidentally triggers part of the message from Princess Leia, which plays on repeat. "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi," she says, "you're my only hope."