IIRC Ben Burtt performs many of his droid sounds by making babytalk noises and then running them through his magic filters, e.g. much of R2's babble.

Our probe droid sounds (here I'm speaking on behalf of the sound engineer, who should chime and slap me down if I'm overstepping) are going to be heavily processed such that anyone's voice would be unrecognizable.

The "beep beep boop" sounds Phi threw in at the end of the ship's computer lines would be perfect if we, say, sped them up and looped them 20 or 50 times with some random pauses and changes in sequence, or just used the beep and the boop as Morse code tones. Add the eerie radio transmission phasing sounds and we'd have it.

I remember that Teague wants to do the sound mix, but it would be cool if one of you ambient music guys could come up with some good ominous probe droid language samples for him to use. Kyle? AuralStim?

Yeah, we need a WAYDM woman to represent.
Good call.

I helped!

Cool. My video workstation is back online after a hiatus for room painting. I'm looking at some slight speed ramps during the saber combat. Once we see if we like those it'll be roto time. Probably about a week away.

Faldor, I anticipated your need but procrastinated on the execution. I think I can get you some grabs in the next 24-48 hours.

Fireproof, you are most welcome to the part! A high bitrate mp3 should be right in the sweet spot, but I'm sure we can work with any format you can encode and upload somewhere.

First time I ever cried watching a movie. Popped my cherry; now all it takes is, like, a kid hugging a puppy with a few notes of a string cue and I'm a leaky bucket of sponges.

Finished reading the trilogy. Can't really see a way to critique it without spoiling, but I enjoyed it. I had several sessions of, "can't put it down, sleep can wait."

Here's just a few on topic things that pop to mind as I type them:

If you can make plate armor, you can make steam engines. That might explode at any moment.

Drawing metals into wire can help with mastering electricity. Generators, wet cell batteries, capacitors, etc.

Heavier than air flying machines seem obvious, presuming a high-specific energy fuel source and engine. Airships are low tech. Submarines as well, it's keeping the crew alive that's the problem.

Cool, Sir.
I'll be sure to bring her back in one piece.