This page is a placeholder for information I'm collecting for use in various articles. It's also for me to keep track of everything I've already covered for Threepio and Artoo. On that note:

Already done:

Prequel Era:

• The Phantom Menace
• Attack of the Clones
• Every episode of both Star Wars: Clone Wars and The Clone Wars that has one or both of the droids in it.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)
• The Clone Wars: Procedure
• The Clone Wars: Agenda
• The Clone Wars: Discount
• The Clone Wars: Bait
• The Clone Wars: Departure

• Star Wars: Obsession
• Labyrinth of Evil
• Revenge of the Sith

Dark Times

• Star Wars: Droids—"The White Witch"
• Star Wars: Droids—"Escape Into Terror"
• Star Wars: Droids—"The Trigon Unleashed"
• Star Wars: Droids—"A Race to the Finish"
• Star Wars: Droids—"The Lost Prince"
• Star Wars: Droids—"The New King"
• Star Wars: Droids—"The Pirates of Tarnoonga"
• Star Wars: Droids—"The Revenge of Kybo Ren"
• Star Wars: Droids—"Coby and the Starhunters"

New Republic Era:

• X-wing: Wedge's Gamble

Legacy Era

• Backlash

Contents 1 Personality and traits 1.1 Programming 1.2 Personality 1.3 Relationship with R2-D2 1.3.1 Images I want to use (relatively) soon 1.4 Dark Tide 2 Timeline 3 Reception

Personality and traitsEdit

ProgrammingEdit

C-3PO was programmed for etiquette and protocol.^[1] He was programmed to understand human behavior.^[2] It was against his programming to impersonate a deity.^[3]

Sand was no good for his joints.^[3] Cold weather could cause his joints to freeze up.^[4]

His salvaged nature imbued in him special qualities that set him a brand apart from his droid cousins.^[5]

Accumulated over 30 secondary functions after Episode I, including landspeeder piloting and programming binary loadlifters.^[5]

By Episode I, C-3PO's gyro-balance circuitry was several decades old,^[6] but Skywalker was able to use scrounged and improvised replacement parts to make the droid functional again. C-3PO boasted sound wiring, as well as a standard protocol droid verbobrain and communicator module.^[5]

Fluent in over six million forms of communication.^[3][4]

Although he was assigned to cook on occasion,^[7] the SkySolos trusted him with little more than appetizers by 43 ABY.^[8]

Knew the histories and customs of many cultures, but not recipes.^[8]

PersonalityEdit

Fussy and worry-prone.^[5]

His electronic brain could become confused,^[5] causing him to liken events to dreams.^[2]

Was capable of developing friendships with other droids.^[9][5]

Fearful of danger, he was easily startled,^[4] and would follow his friends and allies into most situations if it meant not being left alone to fend for himself.^[2][4]

Was a masterful storyteller.^[3][10]

In 17 ABY, he didn't think that he had ever had a memory wipe,^[11] but deduced that he probably had by 43 ABY.^[12]

Felt that household chores were the lowest form of duty.^[13]

Was very dedicated to his friends and masters.^[14]

If masterless, he craved a master, feeling that he and Artoo couldn't function without one.^[15]

Decetpion was not his forte, but he was willing to overlook that limitation and practice deception.^[16]

By 43 ABY, Ben saw him as part of the family. He definitely had a personality. "He definitely has a personality." Grew tired of cooking, cleaning, and answering comms, yearning to do what he was designed for. Saw deciphering the Keshiri language as a challenge to look forward to. Was capable of looking pleased.^[8]

Let's face it, the dude thought himself lowly. "I am positively decrepit and tragically outdated."^[8]

Relationship with R2-D2Edit

Images I want to use (relatively) soonEdit

Dark TideEdit

Main article: Dark Tide Duology

Having written six Star Wars novels under Bantam Spectra's license, Michael A. Stackpole was contacted and asked if he was interested in writing some trilogies within the NJO.^[17] He was also invited to help plan the series, and was present at the initial planning meetings where the general story arc was devised.^[18] Stackpole thought that taking the classic Star Wars characters in new directions was a wonderful idea that would avoid stagnation, and in turn avoid killing the universe; he saw Star Wars as having enough depth and strength to allow for very dynamic stories.^[19] As one of the planners of the series, Stackpole signed off on Chewbacca's death.^[18]

Stackpole's contract eventually called for just one trilogy, which, due to changes made in the series' story arc, was shortened to a duology.^[20] The duology was titled Dark Tide, and its two chapters were respectively titled Onslaught^[21] and Ruin.^[22] The cancelled middle entry was to be titled Dark Tide: Siege.^[18] The "Dark Tide" referred to the Yuuzhan Vong, who Stackpole saw as "probably the nastiest thing to ever hit the galaxy."^[23]

Within the duology, Stackpole hoped to prominently feature the character of Corran Horn, an ace pilot turned Jedi Knight who had starred in all of his previous novels. He was initially told by Lucasfilm to deemphasize Horn's role, but, during a second round of negotiations, was given the go-ahead to use him as a main character.^[18] Stackpole characterized Luke Skywalker as a mature character who had settled into his role as leader of the Jedi,^[23] and regretted not being able to do more with Han Solo, but he knew that James Luceno would come "roaring back" with a pair of Han Solo novels immediately after Stackpole was finished. He was also very conscious of Jacen Solo's role as a troubled young philosopher,^[23] and considered using more characters from the Young Jedi Knights series, but, with a large enough cast already, felt that using a character was pointless if he couldn't do them justice.^[24]

Many different sources were drawn from when Stackpole was writing the Dark Tide novels. The lightsaber duel in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace influenced several scenes in Onslaught,^[20] as did old samurai and swashbuckling films. Skywalker's exhausting use of the Force came directly from both The Empire Strikes Back and Vision of the Future.^[23] Although he didn't get to tie off as many storylines as he would have liked, Stackpole knew that leaving them for future authors was the very nature of the project,^[24] and that he was laying the groundwork for a future that would become part of the evolving NJO storyline. While writing, he communicated with future NJO authors Luceno and Kathy Tyers regarding the links between their books.^[23][24]

When writing about Skywalker's New Jedi Order, Stackpole tried to reflect the dynamics of how the Order would grow and evolve.^[23] Knowing about Anakin Solo's upcoming death, he characterized him strongly, hoping that he would get a reprieve, as he saw the death as a "waste of a character".^[17] He was, however, happy that the task of burning the planet of Ithor fell to him; the idea came up during initial planning sessions and was originally going to occur at the end of Vector Prime. As Ithor was a peaceful planet, the planning team felt that it being turned into a burning cinder was as much a horror as Alderaan's destruction.^[18] The burning of Ithor thus ended up occurring at the end of Ruin.^[22]

Although the initial plan was that the yearly hardcovers of the NJO would contain every major event, Shapiro and Rostoni realized that every book would be vital to the main storyline after they read the manuscript of Onslaught.^[25] Onslaught was released in paperback and abridged audio cassette on February 1, 2000,^[26] and Ruin was released in the same formats on June 6, 2000.^[27]

TimelineEdit

^[28][29]

ReceptionEdit

*death threats (http://www.theforce.net/jedicouncil/interview/stackpole2.shtml)

• NYTimes bestsellers
• Vector Prime enters list at #11.! spends four weeks on list..

Some additional NJO sources

• The New Jedi Order
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• Dark Empire

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NJO & DE sources:

Handy links: http://www.ign.com/star-wars-characters/ http://io9.com/5538348/the-future-of-star-wars-is-coming-to-an-end http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/05/dark-horse-to-end-star-wars-legacy/ http://techland.com/2010/08/30/10-star-wars-comics-you-should-read/

Hey everyone,

After the closeure of the last CT about an OOU layout guide, I gave it a lot of thought and realized that I quite like the idea of placing the Plot Summary before Conception/Production/Development sections. I discussed the idea at length with jSarek and SavageBob, and they both pointed out to me that this way provides a lot of much-needed context early on which would make the subsequent Development sections easier to follow. Go for plot summary first, and you explain characters, situations, events, etc, so that when you write the "Production" section later, you don't have to keep adding context to every other sentence. As an example: If I rejigged Into the Great Unknown and put Plot Summary and Characters first, then the Conception and Production sections would read more fluidly, as they could just mention Chewbacca without dragging out the details and introducing him as "Han Solo's sidekick Chewbacca the Wookiee." Additionally, if the reader had some knowledge of what the story was actually about prior to reading about how it came to be would be very beneficial.