P2 (prototype astromech droid)

For other uses, see P2.

In 0 BBY,^[2] the prototype astromech droid P2 stood within the equipment-filled garage of Tosche Station on the planet Tatooine, dwarfing a nearby R5 droid who was repairing a generator. Soon after the Tantive IV, a ship of the Rebellion, battled the Galactic Empire in the planet's orbit, the droids bore witness to an attempted theft of parts from Fixer's five-engined landspeeder by a couple of Jawas, a diminutive scavenger species native to Tatooine.^[1]

P2 shared its name with the P2 astromech unit, a tall droid model manufactured by the Industrial Automaton company decades before the Clone Wars.^[3]

Behind the scenes

P2 was depicted in the new Star Wars canon in the 2016 reference book, Star Wars: Complete Locations, in a section focusing on locations from.^[1] the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.^[4] Originally published in the 2004 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy, that section was written by James Luceno and illustrated by Richard Chasemore and Hans Jenssen.^[5]

P2 first appeared moving to and fro behind the windows of Tosche Station in a deleted scene of A New Hope, with the film's script mentioning "a robot" that "repairs some equipment in the background."^[6] Although cut from the final film, the scene was included in^[4] its 2011 Blu-ray re-release.^[7]