Star Wars: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Naboo N-1 Starfighter Ships

Every Naboo N-1 Starfighter has a droid port that is modified to fit a standard R2 unit.

While the spacecraft is a single pilot capacity vehicle, the addition of an onboard astromech droid creates a sort of co-pilot dynamic. To fit into the small Naboo Starfighter droid socket, the onboard R2 unit must be loaded into the space craft from below. Once loaded in to the ship, the R2 droid’s legs telescope into themselves slightly, and then the R2 unit’s head telescopes upward from its body to appear at the back of the starfighter.

When docked into the Naboo N-1 Starfighter droid socket, the R2 unit performs in-flight systems management and flight performance optimization, and can also carry out limited repair works on the ship.

A pilot and droid configuration has long proven beneficial and ideal for those small space fighter types of craft and will do so for many future generations yet to come. For example, Anakin Skywalker’s flight with R2-D2 in the Naboo N-1 Starfighter foreshadows his son Luke Skywalker’s adventures with R2-D2 in an X-Wing craft.