Maybe, but that is still a straw-man argument as you are the one who mentioned Star Wars and only so that you could say they were too advanced to operate in Traveller. Traveller robots are not constrained by the rules of Star Wars (unless you choose to set your game in that universe). Current AI is capable of simulating sentience to fool far to many people and we are supposed to be currently TL 8-9.I’m a big fan boy in general and one of the things also all StarWars Droids have is consciousness which according to Traveller is not available until TL 17. As for the battle droids it depends on the model and when durning the clone wars they were used, early battle droids were mass produced junk half drone later ones and other models where more intelligent (they were all conscious but the original ones were stupider than a lemming). Most Starwars droids don’t show much personality because it’s standard practice to wipe the experience memory at various intervals.
For Advanced Brains (TL 10-12) RH p65 has
"The robot has general intelligence and can communicate and interact with its environment in a manner that emulates a sentient being. Communication and actions are literal and formulaic with the potential for unexpected or unfamiliar circumstances to cause confusion, inaction or inappropriate action."
That sounds like C3P0 to me. I also meet people like this every day.
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