The question of droid personhood has long been an awkward one in Star Wars lore. If 元 is the good guy, refusing to accept a status quo that sees her and her kind as second-class, then what or who is she up against? Star Wars droids are slaves In the end, 元 goes out in a blaze of glory: She dies in action after sparking a full-fledged revolt on Kessel by removing the restraining bolts from the droids in the mines.īut wait. She's fierce and funny, a rebel hero in the classic Star Wars mold – an underdog who'll stick up for the oppressed and overlooked. This is how they flirt, apparently she later claims that Lando has unrequited romantic feelings for her, and hints that they've hooked up in the past. She gives as good as she gets with Lando, her human partner, mocking the idea that he could be her "master" and jokingly daring him to wipe her memory. 元 asserts her unusual independence in other ways. We first see her pleading with two droids in a cage match to stop letting themselves be exploited for others' entertainment -– at a bar which, she notes, won't even serve their kind.
Credit: Lucasfilmįrom her first scene, 元 makes clear that she's outraged by the shoddy treatment of droids, and committed to the cause of righting that wrong.
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