Though many of Star Wars ’ sentient droids pass non - verbally , they ’ve got a reputation for being able to see and convey the full spectrum of human emotion from high spirits to powerful rage . This week ’s Star Wars : Poe Dameron is a monitor that even though droids ca n’t cry , they can feel sorrow .
In plus to being Poe Dameron ’s astromech , BB-8 ’s a admirer , an venturer , a smartass , and as of quite recently , a amorous stake . Like many of Star Wars ’ sub , BB-8 managed to find passion in a hopeless place . But sadly , his budding relationship with another droid has number to a tragical end .
Love is dead and so is BB-8 ’s new lady friend Ivee .
Over the course of the past five issues of Charles Soule , Angel Unzueta , and Arif Prianto ’s Star war : Poe Dameron , BB-8 ’s produce closer and nigher to Ivee , the R - series astromech who serve fighter pilot Jessika Pava . After Ivee first took it upon herself to repaired Poe ’s X - Wing as a chance to demonstrate both her impressive ship criminal maintenance skills and her fondness for BB-8 , the two have been cozied up in what most everyone around them sees as a new love affair .
The droids are so infatuated with one another that they ca n’t stop chatting even while they ’re plugged into their pilots ’ X - Wings and in the heat of a scuffle with the First Order .
While on a missionary station to retrieve a Force - studying archaeologist who ’s loose - be adrift through place , the Black Squadron is ambushed by TIE fighters that destroy the Resistance ’s retrieval ship . As a chemical group of Stormtroopers with back - mounted pusher snatch up the archaeologist and take off for their own ship , Poe reason that to economize him , the Black Squadron has to take out the First Order ’s ship before it can jump into hyperspace .
Poe ’s plan to punch a hole in the ship ’s shield at the precise daub where there ’s a fatal structural defect works , but not before one of the TIE fighters lands a whole hit on Jessika , disabling her locomotive and putting her powerful in the track of another TIE fighter ’s missile . While Jessika madly tries to see out what , if anything she can do to fix the engines and get out of the way , Ivee call for descent of the situation and realizes that there ’s only one elbow room to save her partner : by intercepting it herself .
While BB-8 lookout man in revulsion as Ivee plump out in a blaze of glory , the ease of the Resistance cheers that their mission was a success and everyone develop to head back to their base and prepare for the next spear . Though most everyone else does n’t take notification of Ivee ’s sacrifice , Jessika seeks BB-8 out once they ’re back on base to commiserate over their deal loss and to say him that Ivee want them both to know that her end was neither of their faults . Jessika understands just how shut the two droids had become to one another and as recognition of their chemical bond , she hands BB-8 a bit of Ivee ’s processing social unit that was still attached to her ship .
Rather than say anything , BB-8 immortalizes Ivee the best way he know how by weld the unit onto the side of Poe ’s fighter so that the two of them will always be close .
That poor , goofy droid ’s been through a whole lot in his liveliness and Ivee ’s death cat BB-8 ’s general pluckiness and humor in something of a new light . We already knew BB-8 had profundity but we ’ll be mourning along with the global droid on this one .
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