Collect ‘spherical, of us. Sit by my campfire. Flip off the lights. (I don’t know why my campfire exists in a room with lights…) Now, put together to study the scary lore behind a creepy little droid that briefly seems within the newly launched Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. You would possibly suppose you already know the story already since you learn the headline, however I guarantee you, expensive reader, there’s extra to this terrifying story of demise and cursed steel.
When enjoying Skywalker Saga, you possibly can encounter a random, silent droid hanging out in Mos Espa on Tattooine. While you spot the droid a small cutscene performs by which you see it holding a beneficial Kyber Brick earlier than it poofs away close to the doorway of a small constructing.
In the event you dare enter and comply with that droid, you’ll expertise the one and solely creepy second on this sport. Inside, you discover an deserted dwelling crammed with cobwebs. The droid bolts away while you enter, seeming to fade into skinny air as creepy music performs. In the event you’re courageous sufficient to push additional into the house in pursuit of the droid, you’ll be handled to a brief cutscene of it watching you with a tilted head as ominous music builds and the digital camera zooms into its clean, impassive face. Then it runs off into a close-by room and vanishes, seemingly for good this time.
So uh…what the hell was that each one about? Effectively, this isn’t a random droid. As a substitute, it is a unusual and haunting Easter egg referencing a disturbing droid named Nobot. Nobot is a determine of Mos Espa folklore, and because the eerie droid doesn’t inform its personal story, for that, we should depend on a Mos Espa resident steeped within the city’s historical past and legends.
In response to Jira, an area fruit vendor in Mos Espa, Nobot arrived within the metropolis years in the past. When Nobot first confirmed up, it was lined in blaster marks and dried blood. Nobot now wanders the city aimlessly and endlessly. Once in a while its communication module, which is damaged, will play what feels like a younger lady pleading for her life earlier than being murdered. In response to Jira, this lady was pregnant and Nobot witnessed her demise. Or, relying on who you ask, Nobot really killed the girl and left her physique to rot beneath the 2 suns.
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Due to its lacking serial quantity and on account of it being so previous, no person actually appears to know if it killed anybody, the place it got here from, or why it nonetheless operates. Even weirder, there are tales of this droid being taken out into the desert and left to die, just for it to search out its means again to Mos Espa each single time. Some even tried to destroy the ghostly droid, however usually their weapons would fail or different mishaps would happen, sparing the bot and injuring the aggressor within the course of.
Nobot briefly seems in Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Nevertheless, as with most background characters in Star Wars movies, Nobot is rarely given a reputation through the film. As a substitute, all of this lore got here afterward. As defined on Wookieepedia, the story for Nobot was written by Shaun Flaherty as a part of an ongoing collection of fan-created tales that had been handled as actual components of the then canon pre-Legends Prolonged Universe. A variety of characters and ideas first created in these tales by followers would find yourself in different Star Wars media, so this was extra than simply fan fiction being shared by Lucasfilm.
Right this moment, Nobot and many of the remainder of these tales are a part of Star Wars Legends, although its look on this sport does appear to no less than point out that Disney and Lucasfilm could be open to bridging a model of this creepy droid again into the Star Wars canon of right now.
Or somebody at TT Video games snuck a really disturbing little bit of Star Wars lore right into a sport geared toward youngsters. In any case, it’s fairly cool to see this obscure and unsettling Star Wars story get a nod within the family-friendly collection. It takes all types of tales to make a galaxy, in spite of everything.