User:Menkooro/C-3PO

Early history
"I didn't have many friends when I was a kid, so I built one."

- Anakin Skywalker to Padmé Amidala

C-3PO was originally activated on the Cybot Galactica foundry world of Affa in the year 112 BBY. Nearly eighty years later, his head and gutted chassis had been discarded in a street of the city of Mos Espa on Tatooine, and were discoverd by two Human youths, Anakin Skywalker and Kitster Banai. A poor slave, Skywalker decided to rebuild the 3PO-series protocol droid, and began smuggling C-3PO to his home piece by piece. Skywalker's intention was that the reactivated protocol droid would function as a servant to his mother, helping her with chores around the house while he worked at a nearby junk shop. C-3PO's gyro-balance circuitry was several decades old, but Skywalker was able to use scrounged and improvies replacement parts to make the droid functional again. C-3PO boasted sound wiring, as well as a standard protocol droid verbobrain and communicator module, but Skywalker could not afford even the simplest of droid coverings, and as such, left the droid's wiring exposed.

Skywalker sometimes brought C-3PO with him when bartering with nearby Jawa traders, and employed the droid's fluency in over six million forms of communication after discovering a wounded Tusken Raider. With the assistance of C-3PO's translation, Skywalker was able to nurse the Tusken Raider back to health, although the Raider grew annoyed with the protocol droid and roared at him to "shut up".

Race for freedom
"He's perfect."

- Padmé Amidala after meeting C-3PO

When Skywalker met several off-worlders in the junk dealer Watto's shop, he invited them to the safety of his home as refuge from a coming sandstorm. The Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, the Queen of Naboo Padmé Amidala, the Gungan Jar-Jar Binks, and the astromech droid R2-D2 were brought to the slave quarters that Skywalker shared with his mother, Shmi, and Amidala and R2-D2 were introduced to C-3PO. Upon meeting R2-D2, C-3PO was shocked when the candid astromech droid commented that he was "naked". Despite the exchange, the two droids fast developed a friendship of sorts, working together to help Skywalker make final adjustments to his podracer in time to race it in the Boonta Eve Classic race. While working on the racer, the two droids discussed space travel and noted the clumsy actions of Binks.

On the day of the race, C-3PO represented his Maker in the the flag parade, carrying Skywalker's flag onto the course prior to the start of the race. He then stood on the sidelines with R2-D2 and two of Skywalker's playmates, Banai and W. Wald, who cheered their friend on. Skywalker won the race, which, thanks to a deal that Jinn had struck with Watto, earned the boy his freedom from slavery and secure Jinn the hyperdrive generator he needed to leave the planet. As Skywalker prepared to leave Tatooine, he said his goodbyes to Threepio, apologizing for not having completed the droid's construction, and expressing his wishes that Shmi wouldn't sell him.

A new home, an old friend
Two years later, Shmi covered C-3PO with dull gray platings so that he might last longer in Tatooine's sandy environment. In another three years, Shmi, who was still in the possession of Watto, was sold to Cliegg Lars, a moisture farmer who lived with his son Owen on a farm in the Great Chott Salt Flat near the city of Anchorhead. Lars married Shmi and freed her from her bonds; Shmi brought C-3PO with her, and the droid served the Lars family at their home for another five years.