Are there any known slicers in the Star Wars fiction? I guess R2-D2 and other astromechs may count? Are there any others, non-droids even?

I like the notion of slicers, I use the theme actively in my current game, and I even guess the devs got the term from the fiction as they have with most other things in the game.

But slicers never felt all that Star Wars to me, not like bountyhunters and smugglers who practically scream Star Wars so loud you can hear it in space.

So please tell me about slicers in the fiction, both canon and legends.

Bonus question: are there any careers, specs, species or other elements in the game that doesn`t feel very Star Wars to you, even if you like it or not?

Ghent was a slicer working for Talon Karrde in the Thrawn trilogy, and used a few times after that. I want to say there was some slicing in the Wraith Squadron books.

Ghent was a slicer working for Talon Karrde in the Thrawn trilogy, and used a few times after that. I want to say there was some slicing in the Wraith Squadron books.

Thank you. But nothing in the films or series, except astromechs if they would count?

I think the first "canon" slicer, besides R2-D2, would have been Cad Bane's Petrolian accomplice at the end of season 1.

The first visualization of what I would call a real RPG-style hacking is in Rebels season 1 where they install the spike into the radio broadcast tower. But there is also Sabine's hacking of Tseebo's headgear, and the occasional "hack around the jammers" stuff.

I'd say with TCW and Rebels it has actually become a thing. Before that, I'd agree with the OP.

In Ep IV opening crawl.."..Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon,.."

Never felt like they grabbed blueprints off a drafting table...

Astromechs decidedly do count (especially as R2's existence means there's not much room for slicers in most of canon). A legends example would be Mako from SWTOR. For a canon, non droid example, Sabine from Rebels displays slicer skills but isn't specialized in it.

In Ep IV opening crawl.."..Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon,.."

Never felt like they grabbed blueprints off a drafting table...

As the OT feels more like fantasy-space-western with a pinch of samurai in it, than hard sci-fi or even classic space opera pulp, I could see that happening

In Ep IV opening crawl.."..Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon,.."

Never felt like they grabbed blueprints off a drafting table...

As the OT feels more like fantasy-space-western with a pinch of samurai in it, than hard sci-fi or even classic space opera pulp, I could see that happening

Blueprints for a space station the size of a planet?......uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............no.

Blueprints for a space station the size of a planet?......uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............no.

You are mixing realism in with my star Wars again!....

Space Opera, Science Fantasy, Space Western!

C3PO did some slicing in the new book Bloodlines. R2 D2 because he has not had a memory wipe had the rest of the map to the first jedi temple from the imperial database from the deathstar (plugged in during episode iv and found info again after a massive defragmentation session in episode vii).

It was also mentioned that C3PO although good at it was no R2 D2 , for the record.

Blue max is one of the first slicer droids to show up in star wars fiction he was caried in the chest of another droid bollux. hes from the early han solo trilogy