Despite the P2's success, and due to it being one of the two largest droid manufacturers in the galaxy, Industrial Automaton's droid development lab turned their attention to creating the R-series line of droids, beginning with the improved R1 and meeting great success with the R2. The P2 astromech unit shared its name with P2, a prototype astromech droid around the height of a typical human who was present on the planet Tatooine in 0 BBY.
The P2 astromech unit was introduced to the new Star Wars canon by the twenty-eighth issue of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine, which uses a sketch that was also featured in the Star Wars Legends reference book The Essential Guide to Droids.
In Legends, the P2-series astromech droid was 2.2 meters tall, and its design was inspired by an early Ralph McQuarrie concept illustration of R2-D2. One of the original concept sketches by McQuarrie that became the basis of the Legends P2 unit was also based upon for the design of CH-33P, a canon-exclusive C1-series astromech droid introduced in "Shattered," the penultimate episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series. The episode was released on May 1, 2020, with the design of CH-33P in "Shattered" attributed to Kilian Plunkett.
The P2 astromech unit was introduced to the new Star Wars canon by the twenty-eighth issue of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine, which uses a sketch that was also featured in the Star Wars Legends reference book The Essential Guide to Droids.
In Legends, the P2-series astromech droid was 2.2 meters tall, and its design was inspired by an early Ralph McQuarrie concept illustration of R2-D2. One of the original concept sketches by McQuarrie that became the basis of the Legends P2 unit was also based upon for the design of CH-33P, a canon-exclusive C1-series astromech droid introduced in "Shattered," the penultimate episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series. The episode was released on May 1, 2020, with the design of CH-33P in "Shattered" attributed to Kilian Plunkett.