Droid Engineer Archive

I was thinking about the space expansion and some ideas about droids popped up. Wouldn't it be great if the R-series astromech droids were necessary in order to run a small fighter (X-wing, Headhunter, Y-wing, A-wing, etc.). These fighers are too small to hold a powerfull hyperspace computer so they require an astromech droid to do the computing for them. Droids with data modules could calculate/hold hyperspace vectors (think space waypoints/ sort of like EQ bind points. You leave space wherever you have a clear shot to your "waypoint" and come out at that point), the betterdata modules could hold more "waypoints" than lesser ones. Also, droids with a repair module and a manipulator arm could repair a spaceship while in flight, like R2 did on the Falcon and Luke's X-wing.

X and Y-wings in fact do require R-series astromechs for hyperspace capable flight. A and B wings as well as some Headhunters have a small navicomputer allowing limited jumps, usually 10.

Data module = Astrogation module, been thinking that myself for a while (however they would need to hold waypoints for this to work I'd expect)

Z95 Headhunter wasnt hyperspace capable'off the shelf'(lots were modified however). A-Wing and B-Wing had build in Astrogation computers