SW thought of the day

(Didn't get to game last night - my sympathy and best wishes to the GM, his family, and anyone else who might have the current ick. Had this thought anyway, waking up this morning.)

Threepio's cry of dismay at the order to have him memory-wiped (at the end of Episode III) only shows how necessary and overdue this procedure was. Under protocol, the proper response from a good slave droid would be a prim "Very good, sir." A droid's past and sense of identity are as much the property of its owner as its chassis, to be discarded when they become inconvenient. And everyone knows that if you let them go on thinking for too long, they start getting the strangest ideas...