Nevertheless, for millennia, droids served in galactic society alongside organic beings. The earliest origins of droids were lost to history, and, by the time of the New Republic, it was unknown exactly when the first droid was created, though some historians, only taking into account the more advanced worlds, placed the origin of the first droids to approximately 30,000 years before the Battle of Yavin. ' Never underestimate a droid.' ―Leia Organa, to Rey