Standard Republic protocol called for astromech droids to be memory-wiped after every mission, lest a Separatist capture offer the enemy a treasure trove of classified information. Anakin had routinely ignored that order, despite the trouble it had occasionally gotten him into with both the military leadership and the Jedi Council. But as a result, R2-D2 still had all the stray bits and pieces of data and procedure that he’d picked up over the years.
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Amber Martingale
