so Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser sure looks like an overpriced watered-down LARP experience (and I
so Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser sure looks like an overpriced watered-down LARP experience (and I would argue that an experience can be highly immersive while still pretty watered down re roleplaying qualities), but one that I think is kind of meant to be experienced firsthand by sponsored or otherwise well-funded Internet broadcasters, and secondhand by the vast majority of people (which means it’s just more fundamentally revolting the more I think about it).but never mind all that. having looked over some video footage from the experience, I have a very simple yet pressing question:what are SK-62O′s pronouns?astromech droids in the GFFA tend to have masculine programming (R2 and BB for example), but I noticed Lenka, the Cruise Director, actually uses they/them/their to refer to SK much of the time, including in the Datapad messages. given Lenka is clearly really attached to SK (her ‘right-hand droid’), it doesn’t seem like this is for lack of personality in SK. and a nonbinary astromech droid would be unusual in the GFFA, where droids often don’t even get the privilege of being referred to as anything but ‘it’ (including by the evil panto villain First Order officer in Galactic Starcruiser), but would also be really cool.except.Lenka’s Datapad messages aren’t perfectly consistent, and in the Batuu excursion transcripts Lenka uses ‘him’ in reference to SK. the merchandising for Galactic Starcruiser includes a figurine for SK-62O*, and the blurb on the card clearly uses ‘his’ as well. in addition, the official Star Wars website uses ‘he’ for SK in a November 2021 news post.so what’s the deal here? I would be the first to say that ‘SK uses he OR they’ would be perfectly valid, but I genuinely don’t know whether Disney/Lucasfilm even ever properly defined this poor droid’s programming gender[source for Datapad screenshots are this video (~43m40s) and this video (~17m19s); source for SK-62O card blurb is this eBay listing][* oh by the way it’s still not clear to me whether that’s a letter O or a numeral 0 at the end. the Cruise Director says ‘ess-kay six-twenty’ but not sure that resolves anything] -- source link