Star Wars: Revenge of the Astromech

Star Wars: Revenge of the Astromech is a 2017 American computer-animated short film co-written and directed by, produced by and distributed by. In the short, sets off a mission to rescue his longtime friend  after the latter got kidnapped by the Imperials.

Released on September 24, 2017, the short was shown in theaters before the feature-length anime film Heybot!. It was nominated for and  at the.

Plot
A few months after the destruction of the first Death Star, the Rebel Alliance stages an operation that involves it stealing an Imperial Star Destroyer as a means to use it to bust open an Imperial siege and bring relief to a locked down planet.

Although the mission was a success, it results in the Empire capturing C-3PO. Since at the end of the day, the Rebel Alliance doesn't see it necessary to risk any lives to recover it from Imperial hands. But R2-D2 isn't going to let his best friend be allowed to be kept a prisoner, so he steals an X-Wing fighter and deserted the Alliance fleet and tracked down the Star Destroyer that C-3PO is being kept at. But before he left, he did have Chewbacca upgrade his weapons systems, as he knew what he would have to do to get his friend back.

When he comes within range of the destroyer, he shuts off his X-Wing’s systems. When the Imperials scan the fighter, they find no life signs so they decide to bring it onboard for possible intel extraction. Once in the hanger, they remove R2 from the X-wing. As that happened, he shoots out vamped up electricity from his zapper and takes down an entire squadron of Stormtroopers.

With the first inspection crew eliminated, R2 quickly makes his way toward a system outlet and began to slice into the Star Destroyer’s computers, sending out mixed reports to various stormtrooper squads. This results in at least two squads to fire upon each other, believing they were firing at Rebel soldiers who have infiltrated the hanger. At least a few more dozen troopers are eliminated out in the hanger.

With the command bridge panicking over what was happening within their ship, R2 heads toward a more central computer outlet. This one gives him power to mess with the Star Destroyer’s internal systems. He uses it to turn on the hallway defenses against the stormtroopers, resulting in some squads being burned alive. Others are unlucky enough to be standing near hanger doors, which opens up and sucks them out into the vacuum of space. A few other troopers somehow make their way into the ships’ trash compactor where they are likely crushed to death.

Believing one of the ship's droids had been hijacked and was causing all this chaos, the stormtroopers begin to attack all Imperial droids onboard the star destroyer. Amid this chaos, R2 finally finds 3PO's holding cell, where he was about to get dismantled by an Imperial engineer. R2 takes out the guards that are at the door and takes down the engineer before releasing his friend from his restraints. Together, R2 and 3PO run down the hallways and make their way back to the hanger; where they take back the X-Wing.

As they exited the hanger in the X-Wing, Darth Vader is notified of what had happened and gets into his own fighter to take care of the droids on his own. Understanding they are unlikely to escape on their own, R2 sends out a message to Luke Skywalker to come help. Shortly after sending the message, Luke and a few others come for the rescue and give enough covering fire to allow them all to escape the Empire’s clutches.

And thus C-3PO is rescued, and a few hundred stormtroopers and Imperials are killed by a single modified astromech droid. As Revenge of the Astromech comes to an end, the Scar Squadron undertakes a mission to Horox III to destroy a Rebel outpost.

Voice cast

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 * Crispin Valenzuela as the Imperial Captain
 * Brandon Chow as the Security Droid
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