I took "droid means butler" as a reference to the Butlerian Jihad from Frank Herbert's Dune.3: Whine and Cheese
Obi-Wan: “Droid”?
Qui-Gon: It means “butler”.
— The first instance of Jim making up meanings for words, as he will go on to do many times. Of course, “Droid” is a shortening of “android”, meaning a human-shaped robot, but in Star Wars is used to mean any intelligent robot, regardless of shape. The GM’s notes shown in strip #206 show how he evolved the term.
Statistics: Posted by evileeyore — 10 Dec 2024 16:44