fgysin is correct that those battledroids were networked. And that ship was destroyed which shut down all those droids. To the best of my knowledge, no one ever made that mistake again.

Getting back to the original point, I'm not aware of anyone doing any wireless hacking on droids in the EU. That's not to say that it couldn't be done, and the GM might or might not allow it. But I'm not aware of anyone that has actually done it.

If you did want to consider it, I think it would come down to the droid type and what kinds of options they might have installed. For example, in ANH, you will note that C-3PO used a hand-held communicator to talk to Luke, and although we later find out that C-3PO was custom-built, he seems to be pretty typical for this model of droid, and so they probably don't come with communicators built-in.

But there are other models of droids that may come with communicators built-in. According to Wookieepedia, the LE-series Repair Droids (like Dash Rendar's "Leebo") come with broadband antennas built-in, and therefore presumably equivalent of a long-range communicator. And if there's a way for them to inherently communicate out, then there might be a way to hack in. Again, that would be up to the GM, and what they determine the communications system is connected to with respect to the other systems in the droid.

fgysin is correct that those battledroids were networked. And that ship was destroyed which shut down all those droids. To the best of my knowledge, no one ever made that mistake again.

Getting back to the original point, I'm not aware of anyone doing any wireless hacking on droids in the EU. That's not to say that it couldn't be done, and the GM might or might not allow it. But I'm not aware of anyone that has actually done it.

If you did want to consider it, I think it would come down to the droid type and what kinds of options they might have installed. For example, in ANH, you will note that C-3PO used a hand-held communicator to talk to Luke, and although we later find out that C-3PO was custom-built, he seems to be pretty typical for this model of droid, and so they probably don't come with communicators built-in.

But there are other models of droids that may come with communicators built-in. According to Wookieepedia, the LE-series Repair Droids (like Dash Rendar's "Leebo") come with broadband antennas built-in, and therefore presumably equivalent of a long-range communicator. And if there's a way for them to inherently communicate out, then there might be a way to hack in. Again, that would be up to the GM, and what they determine the communications system is connected to with respect to the other systems in the droid.

fgysin is correct that those battledroids were networked. And that ship was destroyed which shut down all those droids. To the best of my knowledge, no one ever made that mistake again.

Getting back to the original point, I'm not aware of anyone doing any wireless hacking on droids in the EU. That's not to say that it couldn't be done, and the GM might or might not allow it. But I'm not aware of anyone that has actually done it.

fgysin is correct that those battledroids were networked. And that ship was destroyed which shut down all those droids. To the best of my knowledge, no one ever made that mistake again.

Getting back to the original point, I'm not aware of anyone doing any wireless hacking on droids in the EU. That's not to say that it couldn't be done, and the GM might or might not allow it. But I'm not aware of anyone that has actually done it.

If you did want to consider it, I think it would come down to the droid type and what kinds of options they might have installed. For example, in ANH, you will note that C-3PO used a hand-held communicator to talk to Luke, and although we later find out that C-3PO was custom-built, he seems to be pretty typical for this model of droid, and so they probably don't come with communicators built-in.

But there are other models of droids that may come with communicators built-in. According to Wookieepedia, the LE-series Repair Droids (like Dash Rendar's "Leebo") come with broadband antennas built-in, and therefore presumably equivalent of a long-range communicator. And if there's a way for them to inherently communicate out, then there might be a way to hack in. Again, that would be up to the GM, and what they determine the communications system is connected to with respect to the other systems in the droid.