#Star wars police droid serial#

The Telegraph also quoted an anonymous source 'close to the filmmakers' as saying that Disney and Lucasfilm wanted to 'appeal to girls as much boys' by making The Force Awakens' breakout star one of them. Obviously, this is the kind of thing that happens when you have a giant shared universe populated by multiple creators, but for now, it seems obvious that the real logic behind droids' names is what sounds coolest, nothing more.Д«efore Episode VII arrived in theaters - but after the first trailer hit, which gave ample time for BB-8 to steal our hearts - the Telegraph reported that Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy referred to BB-8 on set as 'she,' and that some of the film's promotional materials hinted that BB-8 was a female. For example, in Star Wars Insider #58, Hidalgo says the prequel-era droid G8-R3 could've had a real name like 'R5-X41238-G8-R3-3124-D2,' but it's not clear if that explanation is canon.

#Star wars police droid serial#

Pablo Hidalgo, a member of Lucasfilm's canon-policing Story Group, posits that droid names are actually excerpts of longer serial numbers. Others have entirely different looks and functions but have names that are only one or two digits off from one another. Droids that look identical have entirely different designations. While droids do come in a variety of different and clearly defined categories - astromech droids help pilot starships, protocol droids translate languages and help explain local customs, and so on - their names don't always match.

Over at Jalopnik, writer Jason Torchinsky did an in-depth investigation into Star Wars droids and discovered there's no real rhyme or reason behind their names.