
Sooo,
DroidWorks seems pretty easy to fit into the canon - sometime between
A New Hope and
The Empire Strikes Back (I enjoy putting sources in the space after those messy first six months), R2-D2, C-3PO and a young (and really, really small) Rebel agent head off to Tatooine in order to find the location of the Empire's assassin droid factory and neutralise the threat. Pretty solid.
However, it's never that easy, is it?
In the penultimate level, you travel to the Jawa information repositary, where you access data stored in information crystals in order to find information such as the droid deactivation code signal and the location of the hidden factory (which looks surprisingly like Jabba's palace). However you can also access other, similar crystals, which show clips from...wait for it...
The Empire Strikes Back.
Spanner. Works. Thrown in.
So just how did the Jawas get hold of recordings of Luke fighting Vader and the
Millenium Falcon trapped inside the belly of a space slug? Can we safely ignore these and stick it in the ANH-TESB timeframe, where it has much more space to breath (doing a Nelvaan, shall we call it)? Or does it have to be crammed into the already convoluted TESB-ROTJ timeframe (C-3PO's line at the end, "I wonder what adventure Master Luke will send us on next?" is especially grating, if this is to be the case).
And why do I get the sad feeling that we're really unlikely to get any official word on this, ever?
One things for sure at least - there's no way it goes post-ROTJ. Repeated references to the Rebel Alliance, Darth Vader and the Emperor mean this can't be so. Besides, we all know R2 and 3PO would have been busy with the Star Tours operation round about then.