R3-M3/Legends

R3-M3 was an R3-series astromech droid which was manufactured by Industrial Automaton. A blue-plated droid, R3-M3 had a clear plastex dome that exposed its computer processors.Star Wars: Behind the Magic By 0 BBY,The New Essential Chronology R3-M3 served the Galactic Empire and was present aboard the Imperial Death Star battle station. In that year, R3-M3 was rolling through a corridor in the station when the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi snuck across the corridor behind the droid in order to deactivate the battlestation's tractor beam. Shortly after, during the Battle of Yavin, the Alliance to Restore the Republic destroyed the Death Star in the Yavin system.
==Behind the scenes==
R3-M3 first appeared in 1977's Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, the first film of the original trilogy. The droid's scene was filmed between June 2 and June 16, 1976 at Elstree Studios's Stage 2.The Making of Star Wars In January 2009, "Toy Wars," an article Jason Fry wrote for the Star Wars Insider magazine's 107th issue, first named the droid as R3-O1. For unknown reasons, however, the droid's name was changed to R3-M3 for a Build-A-Droid action figure made for Hasbro Inc.'s Star Wars: The Legacy Collection toy line in October of that year.
==Appearances==
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==Sources==
*Star Wars: Behind the Magic 
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*Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection
==Notes and references==
Category:Death Star residents
Category:Droids of the Galactic Empire
Category:Droids with unspecified gender programming
Category:Droids with unspecified pronouns
Category:R3-series astromech droids