My head-canon is that the reason no one ever translates for R2 is that he’s extremely insulting in virtually every sentence, not just to 3PO, but to everyone.
If Chopper is anything to go off of in Rebels, chances are most astromech droids are assholes. Hell, most A.I. on Earth seem to turn into flaming racists within like a day if left to their own devices. I’m sure there’s whole sections of code written in all these LLM AIs specifically to keep them from devolving into racist bastards. Chances are in the SW galaxy they just don’t even care about that (or it’s actively encouraged by the Empire).
How much better would Rogue One have been if they took a quick 20 minutes to explain how sand effects time dilation? But no, we gotta have some stupid hallway scene and emotional stakes. Unwatchable.
Exceptions are made if banging is important for the survival of the species*, and they were like the only two in the galaxy. See also: Ki-Adi-Mundi and his 5 wives.
*this exception may or may not have been written by Ki-Adi-Mundi
Han is the captain. The captain of a ship makes the calls as to what it does, and the Millennium Falcon came back.
I think a better question is why Luke gets special recognition versus the other pilots. I mean, he happened to be the one to make the final shot that blew up the Death Star, but everyone else in the squadrons went in too.
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