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Droid rights

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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

The droid rights was an attempt to liberate droids from their forced servitude and give them legal protection under the Rights of Sentience clause of the Galactic Constitution. It opposed ownership of droids and anybody advocating anti-droid propaganda, instead advocating that their sentience programming and personality matrices gave them said protection and decried restraining bolts as contributing to the oppression.

Problems arose as, at times, droids started their own uprisings against their organic masters, such as the infamous Great Droid Revolution started by HK-01 and his droid army. Such incidents only hindered the movement and sentients who believed in it continued the struggle.

Text and facts from the “Droid rights/Legends” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Appearances

4 works, in story order
  1. Star Wars: The Old Republic (in a codex entry)
  2. Star Wars: A New Hope novelization (first mentioned)
  3. Rust Never Sleeps (first mentioned)
  4. The Courtship of Princess Leia

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