There are probably rules for this, but I just got the full rule book. I've only been playing with the beginner box till now. Where if at all do I find rules for having an astromech as a pet?

You can buy NPC droids. I don't know which ones are included in the CRB though.

If I remember correctly they have some skills that can be used but do not participate in combat at all.

If you are looking for a "pet-like" droid, the K-9 Hunting Droid in the Enter the Unknown sourcebook sounds like it fits the bill.

This game doesn't really do the "pet" thing (excluding a specific force tree) and astromechs are Rivals, so no need to worry about any special rules. Essentially if you want an astromech, you make the negotiation check, pay the money, and the GM hands you the stats and it's run as a party NPC. That's about it...

If you are looking for a "pet-like" droid, the K-9 Hunting Droid in the Enter the Unknown sourcebook sounds like it fits the bill.

"Why does it look so. . . disco?"

"Oi! Listen, in the year 5000 this was cutting edge!"

Well, according to the description, the K-9 in EtU looks a bit more like Blade Wolf than the tin dog above, or even this thing. I actually have a pretty interesting character concept about playing one if ever get the chance to not GM. Having a droid companion is treated like having an NPC companion, which the GM will mostly maintain. The Seeker/Pathfinder has talents for making mental bonds with animals (but droids can't do that), and mountable animals are treated like vehicles more than companions.

I wonder if in a later sourcebook we'll see rules for running Droid NPCs as "pets." Saga Edition had a sub-set of rules that treated droid companions as something akin to a "pet," turning most of what it could do into things the controlling player usually had to spend their actions on triggering.

What you'd normally do would be, as others have said, to just pay the money and buy the droid. But worth mentioning that the AoR GM screen has squad rules which are really meant for handling a PC in charge of sub-characters. The rules system is designed to really focus on the PCs with any followers as those poor schmucks who take a laser bolt so that the hero can blow up the Death Star. If you're just having one droid and it's a character in its own right, then just use the rival rules and prices for droids are near the back of the book near their stats, iirc. But if you're planning to use nameless droids as your squad of fire support, the GM should probably make them Minions and use squad rules from AoR GM screen for the sake of good game flow and balance.

If you are looking for a "pet-like" droid, the K-9 Hunting Droid in the Enter the Unknown sourcebook sounds like it fits the bill.

"Why does it look so. . . disco?"

"Oi! Listen, in the year 5000 this was cutting edge!"

Your droid smoked? No wonder it didn't last past the year 5065 recall.

Ok, to be more specific I am wanting to create a BB-8 style service/repair droid and or a medical droid as a pet. On a side note K-9 is the second coolest dog in the universe next to my Siberian Husky 'KiRiTo'

Also Im still reading the book so if you don't mind pointing out specific pages it would be greatly helpful to me.

Ok, to be more specific I am wanting to create a BB-8 style service/repair droid and or a medical droid as a pet. On a side note K-9 is the second coolest dog in the universe next to my Siberian Husky 'KiRiTo'

Also Im still reading the book so if you don't mind pointing out specific pages it would be greatly helpful to me.

I've always preferred the leader of the Kriollotane's "the shooty dog thing" for K-9. It's just such a great phrase.

Anyway, if you're using FaD rulebook, then purchasing droids is in a sidebar on pg. 408. In the other core books it's obviously a different number but it's still under Droids in the Adversaries section. For some reason the FaD book doesn't list Astromechs, but they're 8,250 and Rarity 3 in EotE.

Hope this helps.

In my game NPC Droids that the party are told by their owner(s) what to do but I as the GM control them. So if a PC asked a Droid to Slice a door I manoeuvre the Droid and make the check. Same would go for combat or other skill checks.