The existence of IG-88, a droid bounty hunter, surely also means that droids in the SW universe are sentient beings who are capable of acting independently without human ”owners”.
You don’t have to get that deep into lore, R2-D2 spends most of his time on screen doing whatever he damn well pleases, starting by tricking some dumbass human yokel into disabling the mind control device slavers placed on him, while under the effects of said mind control device
Literally everyone of every faction uses slave labor in the form of sentient robots. Republic, CIS, Empire, Rebellion, New Republic, everybody.
I’ve sometimes thought a good Star Wars fanfic could be Anakin rejecting the Jedi and becoming John Brown for droids.
A droid underground railroad and/or revolution star wars movie or series would be sick
There was that one droid in Solo who fought for droid rights.
Unfortunately, she was called L3-37 and by the end of the movie, she became the computer of the Millennium Falcon.
She was absolutely 100% right about everything she ever said and both her human “companions” and the movie itself treated her as a joke.
L3-37 did nothing wrong.
The existence of IG-88, a droid bounty hunter, surely also means that droids in the SW universe are sentient beings who are capable of acting independently without human ”owners”.
You don’t have to get that deep into lore, R2-D2 spends most of his time on screen doing whatever he damn well pleases, starting by tricking some dumbass human yokel into disabling the mind control device slavers placed on him, while under the effects of said mind control device