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C3PO

A fussy and worry-prone protocol droid, C3PO was created by a nine-year old prodigy on the desert planet Tatooine. Young Anakin Skywalker had intended the homemade droid to help his mother, Shmi. While Threepio was a genius invention, it lacked an outer shell, though, and had to live with the indignity of being "naked," with his parts and wiring showing.

When Anakin befriended Padmé Amidala of Naboo, Threepio met the blue-and-white droid R2-D2. The two formed a fast friendship, working together to perfect Master Anakin's blazing fast Podracer for an upcoming competition.

When Anakin won the Podrace which gave him his freedom, he left Tatooine with Padmé and Artoo, leaving Threepio behind with Shmi. Years passed before Shmi was eventually freed by Cliegg Lars, a moisture farmer who had fallen in love with her. She relocated to the Lars moisture farm, a small homestead not far from Anchorhead, and took Threepio with her.

After Anakin’s mother died, Threepio reclaimed the protocol. This marked the first time the nervous Threepio had ever been aboard a starship.

Arriving on Geonosis, Anakin and Padmé ventured into the the Geonosian hives, leaving the droids behind. Artoo-Detoo, once again reunited with Threepio, and insisted they follow. During the discovery of an immense droid factory churning out countless combat automata for the growing Separatist movement. The concept of machines manufacturing machines Threepio tumbled into the dangerous machinery.

A piece of heavy equipment cleanly sheared Threepio's head from his body, though both segments were still active. The headless body wandered into a battle droid assembly line while the head landed on a conveyer belt full of battle droid heads. A battle droid head was then automatically affixed to Threepio's body, and Threepio's head was welded to a battle droid body. His twisted ordeal was brought to an end when both bodies were incapacitated. R2-D2 came to Threepio's rescue, tugging the protocol droid's head to his inactive body and reattaching the two.

Years later, Threepio and Artoo would become the property of the Royal House of Alderaan, an influential family of nobles with ties to the growing Rebel Alliance. The two droids were aboard Princess Leia Organa's consular vessel when it was attacked by an Imperial Star Destroyer due to suspected complicity in Rebel actions. Leia stored vital Rebel information in Artoo's memory systems -- unbeknownst to Threepio. Artoo then took it upon himself to complete Leia's failed mission, though Threepio knew nothing of its details.

Artoo commandeered an escape pod, and rocketed away from the captured craft, crashlanding on the barren desert world of Tatooine. There, the droids were taken captive by Jawa traders, and sold to moisture farmer Owen Lars and his nephew Luke Skywalker. Determined to complete his mission of finding famed war hero General Obi-Wan Kenobi, Artoo ran away

Threepio and Luke eventually found Artoo, as well as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Both droids navigated the complex Imperial computer system to provide the rescuers with timely assistance and status updates which led to the rescue of Princess Leia from the imperial space station, the Death Star.

Having returned to the Alliance base with Princess Leia, Threepio, and Artoo continued to be mainstays with the core group of Rebel heroes and remained good friends as they went on in time from adventure to adventure.