Synopsis:
While transporting 0-MR1 (Omri), a First Order droid
who may know the location of captured Admiral Gial
Ackbar, a group of droids, C-3PO, CO-34, PZ-99, VL-44,
and Toomedtoo, crash land on the desolate planet Taul.
With their transport ship's communications damaged, the
droids seek a way off the planet and decide to try to
make their way to a crashed First Order TIE fighter in
the hope that the starfighter's comm unit is still
functional. While they discuss amongst themselves
existential questions of their own existence, they soon
find themselves facing a series of natural hazards that
they must overcome. During several encounters their
numbers begin to dwindle and in one encounter with a
fierce creature C-3PO loses an arm. By the time they get
close to the crashed TIE fighter only Threepio and Omri
remain. But in order to reach the starfighter the droids
will have to expose themselves to deadly acid rain and
choosing friendship over programmed alliengence, Omri
gives Threepio Admiral Ackbar's location before setting
out into the rain by himself. Though he successfully
reaches the TIE fighter and transmits a distress signal
to the Resistance, it was while trying to return to
Threepio that Omri falls apart as he succumbs to the
effects of the acid rain. When Poe Dameron and BB-8
arrive they find C-3PO holding one of 0-MR1's arms, now
scoured red by the effects of acidic damage, and
mourning 0-MR1's self-sacrifice. The golden droid
pledges that he will use the red arm as a memorial to
the sacrifices of Omri and the other droids. |