The Star Wars legacy, so far, covers nine mainline films and a couple of spin-offs, encompassing a lengthy story of good versus evil.

Series creator George Lucas has gone on record to say that the whole story, everything in the core Star Wars films, is being narrated by R2-D2.

In a book called How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor, Lucas discusses how the tale of the Jedi, the force, the Sith, and everything regarding the Skywalker lineage, is all told by the little astromech droid.

The book states, “The entire story of Star Wars is actually being recounted to the keeper of the Journal of the Whills – remember that? – a hundred years after the events of Return of the Jedi by none other than R2-D2.”

This kind of makes sense. After all, R2-D2 is around for all nine films, much like C-3PO.

The droids are involved in pretty much every twist and turn through the films and bear witness to some of the biggest moments in the franchise.

Of course, we’re actually being narrated to. There are no beeps and whistles to tell us the story, but one could even assume that the opening crawl of each film is R2 displaying the tale via a holo-projection.

So, all the Star Wars canon is stored on the droid’s hard drive, probably featuring clips in 4K.

This begs the question, does R2-D2 know all the ins and outs of the Solo film, or Rogue One? Has he been informed of the goings-on in the TV shows?

Or does he browse whatever version of Wikipedia exists in the far-flung future?

This is one of those lovely bits of information we rarely get since Lucas handed the reins over to Disney.