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[Star Wars] Does R2-D2 recognize the significance of Anakin's fall to the Dark Side? Does he have moral agency and so fights with the rebellion, or is he merely "swept" into the fray?
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I've always loved (and agreed with) the fan theory that R2D2 is one of the main spy agents of the Rebellion, working as the real operative while C-3PO is loud and obnoxious, and thus draws all of the attention. If you think about it, R2 has been at the heart of the Rebellion since the very beginning, and hasn't had a memory wipe since. Droids in Star Wars become more individualized the longer they go without a memory wipe, and he's way, way overdue. He can basically serve as the main hacker (slicer, in Star Wars parlance) that the Rebellion has access to without anybody thinking of him as anything more than an astromech droid.