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Solo : A Star Wars Storyintroduces TV audience to Lando ’s cantankerous droid , L3 - 37 . Something of a droid libertarian , L3 was reckon by Lando as one of the best navigators he knows . The devastation of L3 ’s physical structure on Kessel leave Han ’s team without a navigator , and they desperately need one in Holy Order to navigate the Maw . They ’re leave small choice but to install L3 ’s brain into theMillennium Falconitself .
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There ’s a sense in which this was quite a deplorable end for L3 - 37 , who had just think she ’d discovered her destiny after liberate Kessel . Within second of achieving this , she ’s shot down and then loses her body , becoming one of three ship ’s data processor in the Falcon . Shocking it may be , but it was nevertheless signpost quite a while ago .
Foreshadowing L3-37’s Plot Twist
The Last Jedinovelization called outHan ’s childhood on Corellia , but that was n’t the only hint toSolo : A Star Wars Storyin the book , with a key passage discussing the Falcon ’s droid brain :
" The Falcon respond sulkily , then launch into a diatribe about its inadequate detector rectennae , power eat to the dish antenna that remained misaligned more than three decades after the incident that had knocked them out of place , and Chewbacca ’s plain calculated refusal to prioritize fixture the style the freighter thought made gumption .
When the Falcon mentioned something about barely being able to discover the back end of a bantha at mellow high noon , E2 - D2 conquer an electronic suspiration . The Falcon has always been cantankerous , its three droid brains quarreling incessantly unless forced to work together . Still , R2 - D2 commonly for along with the ship well enough . For one thing , none of the mental capacity could stand C-3PO ; for another , one of them had a fondness for both romantic gab and dirty joke , both of which R2 - D2 has get wind to leave in large quantities . "
This , along with careful analysis of what pre - release interviews , come together to make the possibility that one of theFalcon ’s three droid mental capacity was in reality L3 - 37 .
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Lucasfilm established the real nature of the Millennium Falcon ’s computing machine shortly before the theatrical tone ending ofStar war : The Force Awakens , in the DK extension bookStar Wars : Absolutely Everything You Need To Know ; it put forward that it consists of three droid wit , cannibalize from an R3 - series Astromech , a V5 - shipping droid , and a Slicer droid . While L3 is a self - change droid , presumably at her core she ’s the Slicer droid . It ’s certainly believable that Lando originally picked her up as a Slicer , and that L3 ’s desire for self - improvement ultimately head her to become a navigator . approach about this on Twitter , novelization author Jason Fry expressed amusement in a simple tweet , implying this was very much intentional .
But this raises another singular motion ; where do the other two droid learning ability come from ? Had one or both of them already been installed by the clock time ofSolo : A Star Wars Story , were they also part of L3 , or would they be add together throughout Han ’s smuggling vocation ? Given the amount ofsetup for next spinoffs inSolo , it would n’t be surprising for Lucasfilm to descend back to this well .
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