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WetNightmare

by sebmojo
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/18406/why-are-droids-tortured

I remember this scene from one of the original trilogy movies. I also remember the droid was "screaming" as it was tortured.

Why would someone torture a droid? How could it be effective? It's a Robot!

Where a droid that very likely was only designed to feel pain, is tortured by the assistant droid 8D8.

The true reason for this whole mess is a certain droid, EV-9D9, that started its existence in Cloud City. It later worked for Jabba as some sort of administrator for his droids. I cannot describe it better than wookiepedia, so here's the important excerpt:

She [EV-9D9] kept a laboratory deep in the bowels of Jabba's Palace, where she built grotesque droids from extra parts that existed only to feel pain. During her years spent there she added several upgrades to herself so that she could feel more of the droid equivalent of pleasure while watching the coolant from dismembered droids pour out of them while using her droid assistant 8D8 to burn the helpless victims.

So to summarise, the reason EV-9D9 tortures droids is because she genuinely enjoys it. And the reason for Jabba to allow and encourage this is because it works a "great" way to motivate his droid-servants.


^ AND THATS STAR WARS

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Built For Pain
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WetNightmare

by sebmojo
it is important to figure out exactly what is going on during the android torture scene in star wars

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somebody was like 'ugh, these robots are great, I love that they have personalities, they're really useful slaves, but the only thing bugging me about them is that they can't feel pain. can we make some kind of chip to make them feel pain? that'd be great.'

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if they dont feel pain then how can you torture them

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if they dont feel pain then how can you torture them

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