E-3PO (Bespin)/Legends
- "E chu ta!"
"How rude!" - ―E-3PO and C-3PO
E-3PO was an E-3PO protocol droid in the service of the Galactic Empire.
Biography
Attached to Death Squadron, E-3PO was transported to Cloud City in 3 ABY to serve as translator liaison with the colony's Ugnaught engineers during the hunt for Luke Skywalker.[2] When IG-88B arrived on Bespin to capture Han Solo and stop Boba Fett from getting the bounty on the smuggler, E-3PO acted as his informant.[3]
Unhappy with his situation on Bespin, E-3PO believed the Empire was bent on destroying him by forcing him to work with a culture specialized in the disassembly and reprocessing of salvageable droids and droid parts. The Imperial team helping the Ugnaughts convert the carbon freezing chamber's chemical intermix ratio for Human hibernation took to calling E-3PO "E-Gregious" because of his outlandish attitude. Insulted, he left the chamber,[3] taking time only to mumble "E chu ta!" to C-3PO standing outside the door, who commented on his rudeness.[2]
When the Empire left a permanent garrison on Bespin, E-3PO stayed on in Cloud City to serve as Ugnaught liaison for Captain Hugo Treece. His gruff personality continued to degrade, forcing Treece and others to reassign him from job to job.[source?]
After the Imperial occupation of Bespin ended, E-3PO came into the hands of the New Republic. New Republic Intelligence agents went over E-3PO's systems in detail expecting to uncover data valuable to the New Republic. However, the only information recovered had to do with Imperial dining and clothing etiquette, his TechSpan I module having been extracted years earlier by a frustrated technical specialist, bent on correcting the droid's personality defects permanently.[source?]
Behind the scenes
E-3PO was portrayed by Chris Parsons in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, who also portrayed 4-LOM and K-3PO in the same film.
Appearances
- "Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88"—Tales of the Bounty Hunters
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization (First appearance)
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
- Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
Non-canon appearances
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Appears in cutscene(s))
- LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (Appears in cutscene(s))
Sources
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Cloud City Limited (Card: E-3PO) (backup link) (First identified as E-3PO)- Star Wars: Behind the Magic
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 24 (ESP1, Espionage Droids) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The Action Figure Archive
- Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
"Best of Hyperspace" – Star Wars Insider 89
E-3PO in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)- Star Wars in 100 Scenes
