P2 (prototype astromech droid)

In 0 BBY,The depiction of P2 in Star Wars: Complete Locations is set during Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, the events of which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 0 BBY. the prototype astromech droid P2 stood within the equipment-filled garage of Tosche Station on the planet Tatooine, dwarfing a nearby R5 droid who was repairing a generator. Soon after the Tantive IV, a ship of the Rebellion, battled the Galactic Empire in the planet's orbit, the droids bore witness to an attempted theft of parts from Fixer's five-engined landspeeder by a couple of Jawas, a diminutive scavenger species native to Tatooine.
P2 shared its name with the P2 astromech unit, a tall droid model manufactured by the Industrial Automaton company decades before the Clone Wars.
==Behind the scenes==
P2 was depicted in the new Star Wars canon in the 2016 reference book, Star Wars: Complete Locations, in a section focusing on locations from. the 1977 original trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. Originally published in the 2004 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy, that section was written by James Luceno and illustrated by Richard Chasemore and Hans Jenssen.Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy
P2 first appeared moving to and fro behind the windows of Tosche Station in a deleted scene of A New Hope, with the film's script mentioning "a robot" that "repairs some equipment in the background." Although cut from the final film, the scene was included in its 2011 Blu-ray re-release.
==Appearances==
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==Sources==
*Star Wars: Complete Locations 
==Notes and references==
Category:Astromech droids
Category:Prototype and experimental droids