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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Operator" data-source="post: 2287231" data-attributes="member: 32696">Battle Droid Behavious in Attack of the ClonesIn the original script for AtoC, a squad of Jedi were sent to find the control ship and shut it down, thus duplicating the tactics of TPM. The squad successfully shut down the control signal, and all the droids in the arena stopped. A cheer went up from the about-tobe-TPK'ed Jedi, but the droids cut the celebration short when they suddenly reactivated and resumed their assault. In the final version of the movie, this scene was thankfully cut. Because this would have been very dumb... It's been a decade since the Battle of Naboo, you don't think the TradeFed would have developed a counter measure? That there is a countermeasure is not at issue, the question is what is the counter? I think the answer can becan be found in the "C3PO Incident". C3PO's head was attached to a battle droid body, and a battle droid body was attached to C3PO's head. This scene seemed to be meant as (questionable) slapstick humour, which it was, but it also shows us somethign interestign abot Battle Droids. It indicates that droids have twin processing centres!Consider: the battle droid body was able to seize control of C3PO's head. It was able to coordinate its movements with other battle droids and take shots at Jedi knights, which means that it had control of his eyes and it could see what he saw. It was also able to shout war cries such as "Die, Jedi Dogs!", which means that it had control of his voice box. Conversely, the battle droid head was able to use C3PO's body. It engaged in combat as well as it could (considering the inferior performance characteristics of C3PO's body), and it forced C3PO's body to grab a blaster and shoot at Jedi knights.But why would a battle droid have two independent processing centres, each of which is obviously capable of doing the job on its own? The answer may lie in the control-ship countermeasure. Let us postulate the following:The head processor is the same design used 10 years earlier at Naboo, and it shuts down when the control signal is lost. This may be a technical limitation or it may have been a deliberate design decision (giving the Neimoidians a "kill switch" in order to shut down the entire droid army if it ever turns on them).The body processor is a new design which does not require the control signal. If a special shutdown signal is received from the control ship, it shuts down along with the head processor. But if the control signal merely stops, it assumes that the control ship was destroyed, and it seizes control.The resulting theory neatly explains everything described or seen in the arena battle with respect to control signals and C3PO:The battle droid body gets C3PO's head. Its in-body processor does not detect the presence of a battle droid brain, so it assumes that the control ship has been destroyed. It goes independent, using the inputs from C3PO's audio/video sensors to guide its decision-making and movements. At one point it even sends words to C3PO's vox, the (in)famous shout of "Die Jedi Dogs!".C3PO's body gets a battle droid head, which takes control of C3PO's body because C3PO's body was never really meant to control its own actions without higher-brain functions present. It is able to fight despite the poor performance of C3PO's body, but it is disabled before the control signal is cut off, so we never get to see if it would have shut down as I expect it would have when the control signal stops.The remaining battle droids shut down briefly when the control signal stops, and then they start themselves up again. This momentary delay would be explained by the switch-over from one processor to the other.Unless somebody can come up with a better theory, this one seems good for now. If the droids had been designed so that they did not require a control signal at all, there would have been no shutdown (even a temporary one) when the control signal was lost. If the droids had only one processing centre, there would have been no way for the battle droid to control itself while its head could separately control C3PO's body. None of the actions taken by either of the two hybrid droids were consistent with C3PO's intent, so both hybrids were obviously under the control of whichever battle droid component happened to be present.</blockquote>

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