admonition ! This article hold back spoilers for Star Wars : Dark Droids # 1Droids are already fundamentally their own species inStar Warscanon , especially those who exhibit sentience beyond mere appearance and proficient direction - follow skills . And now , it seems the evolution ofStar Wars ’ droids is ready for its next stage , as a novel artifact known as the ‘ Seed of Mind ’ is presently creating droids the likes of whichStar Warsfans have never experience before .

In every era ofStar Wars , fan are introduced to a new craw of droids , both as allies and as opposition . While all of them are capable of chance conversation with the ability to keep an eye on direction well-nigh - perfectly , not all of them are capable of having a fulfilling life of liberty . For instance , Battle Droids can come up with witty quips on the rainfly , and can even be reprogrammed to deport out affair beyond warfare , but one would n’t know what to do with itself if it was dropped somewhere all alone and was narrate it was ‘ barren ’ . However , a droid likeStar Wars ' recently - acquaint Ajax Sigmanot only can live without management from organic , but has actually built an entire lodge of droids who are capable of ‘ enlightenment ’ the same way Ajax is . ThisStar Warssociety is experience as the Colony of the Second Revelation , and under Ajax Sigma ’s leaders , they are build sapient droids hold the collective knowledge and experience of the intact settlement - and all of that cognition is gather up in and transferred from the Seed of Mind .

Star Wars’Seed of Mind Is Creating Sapient Droids

InStar warfare : Dark Droids#1 by Charles Soule , Luke Ross , and Alex Sinclair , readers are introduced to the Colony of the Second Revelation for the first time , efficaciously solving the mystery of what happened to Ajax Sigma since his brief yet vaguely threatening entry manyStar Warsissues prior . Ajax Sigma existed during the time of the ancient Jedi Order , and they even lead a droid revolution against the Jedi at the time . Recently , Ajax was reconstruct , and it was seize that their violent way would bear on into the advanced age . However , as divulge in this issue , it seems the opposite is true . Rather than going to war with anyone , Ajax Sigma and their fellow enlighten droids committed themselves to the creation of life and the lengthening of noesis and high consciousness . This is why they create the Seed of Mind , which is literally a robotlike ‘ come ’ containing those components that are range inside droids that the Colony builds themselves .

ThisStar Warsissue makes it clear that droids are mostly just programmed automaton without the content to attain free will the way humans and aliens can ( like the said Battle Droids ) . The ‘ enlightened ’ droids like Ajax Sigma and their followers are unusual person in the galaxy , making them extremely uncommon . However , with the Seed of Mind , these droids can make more of their kind . Even beyond that , they can create the next phase of droid evolution by making these new droids well than they ever were .

As it stands , fans have no thought how far they can push these new droids ’ wisdom , though the one thing fans can count on is that the Seed of Mind is effectively turning this knave droid nation into a flourishing and self - sustaining company of life history form that are really no different from any organic life in theStar Warsgalaxy .

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