Dark Nest Crises

In 35 ABY, when Luke was fixing R2, the Jedi encountered a recording of his father and mother discussing a dream of Anakin's, in which his mother had died in childbirth, and another recording of Padm? talking to Obi-Wan Kenobi about Anakin. The recordings, however, were apparently encoded (probably by Alderaanian technicians). R2 himself refused to show Luke or Leia the recordings and insisted he was trying to protect them. The only way to remove the recordings safely was to either find the original designers of the unit, a prototype, or erase R2's memory (an idea only C-3PO seemed to take seriously). Because the recordings hadn't been removed, R2 began to malfunction. By 36 ABY, a year after the first recording was shown, R2 seemed to be functioning again, though he remained unwilling to show the recordings. It wasn't until the Swarm War, when Luke needed to see it to help him in his fight against Lomi Plo, that R2 finally revealed Padm?'s death to Luke, as well as his and Leia's birth.

This is very strange of Artoo, keeping all his memory from the descendants of his former owners. I wish I knew what happened after that, after Luke and Leia saw the tragic death of their mother, Padme Amidala, and their Jedi father, Anakin Skywalker.



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