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RE: The Dumbest Part of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story [Spoiler]
I have an explanation! It's all about automation-system permissions:
The droid (K-2SO) only has the equivalent of Read permissions in the data vault. He can look up where the tapes are, but he doesn't have the permissions to access the automation system to activate the retrieval mechanism. The rebel operatives, of course, don't have the permissions either.
Fortunately, K-2SO is able to enable manual control of the retrieval mechanism so that the rebel operatives can do it themselves.
It's a hack, but I have a long and successful history of hacking my way through the plot holes in Star Wars movies. :)
I see. That would help. Thank you for that explanation. But the design of the chamber still leaves much to be desired in terms of feasible manual retrieval of any of the tapes/disks.
True. Wild to think that if the disk they needed wasn't in plain view that the whole Episodes 4-7 would have completely collapsed! haha
OMG a retroactive collapse of history, back to the future style.