IG-88 assassin droid/Legends

"We think, therefore we are."

- IG-88

IG-88 was an assassin droid designed by Holowan Laboratories. The IG-88 line was a development of the IG-100 MagnaGuard droids used as bodyguards by General Grievous.

Biography
When IG-88 was activated, he inexplicably gained sentience almost immediately. He then proceeded to destroy his makers with his bare hands, copy his programming into three other IG-88s (and one IG-72), kill the majority of the guards in the Holowan Labs complex, and escape. It has been estimated that this took a matter of minutes.

IG-88 designated himself as 'A' and the rest in activation order "B,C and D ". They worked in team, while IG-72 went his own way. They traveled to Mechis III and conquered the droid factory there, killing all its biological occupants. To throw Imperial investigators off their trail, IG-88B worked as a bounty hunter, killing various former employees of Holowan to prevent discovery.

From their base on the Mechis III, The four IG-88s began planning their "Droid Revolution", a movement in which an army of all types of droids would rise up and annihilate all the biological scum of the universe. Their bounty hunter aliases also kept them hidden.

In 3 ABY, IG-88 was commissioned to find the Millennium Falcon, while Imperial Supervisor Gurdun was seeking, therefore he had invested in your fugitives murderous droids to create a better army than the stormtroopers.

However, IG-88 was beaten to the Han Solo bounty by Boba Fett. IG-88B was destroyed on Bespin by Fett in retaliation for attempting to track him. IG-88s C and D engaged Fett on Tatooine to attempt to steal the carbonite contained Solo, but were defeated.Despite IG-88's feuds with Boba Fett, IG-88 helped Boba Fett on a mission involving the Shell Hutt. C was destroyed, and D limped away to be later finished off by Dash Rendar on Ord Mantell.

The remaining droid uploaded his consciousness into a computer core destined for Death Star II. He succeeded in being uploaded, and was preparing to activate his program to take over all droids in the galaxy when it was destroyed. With his consciousness in the Death Star II, he would literally become the Death Star. When Lando destroyed the core, he not only helped save the galaxy from the Empire, but from the dangerous A.I. of IG-88 as well. Years later, the IG-88A body, now inactive, was reprogrammed to serve the Thul family and protect them from the Diversity Alliance and serving as guard-coast of Tyko Thul.

Emperor Palpatine was the only person on the Death Star to suspect something was wrong after the uploading of the computer core with IG-88 inside. Before the station's destruction, he noticed a series of doors in his throne room opening and closing sporadically. IG-88 did this to show the Emperor that he was not all powerful. However, IG-88 was utterly baffled when it appeared that Emperor Palpatine used some unseen force to push the doors open.

IG-88A
IG-88A was the first successful assassin droid of the IG-88 series. Though he saw very little action himself, he absorbed all of the needed information from his counterparts IG-88B, IG-88C, and IG-88D. IG-88A was the last surviving assassin droid of the IG-88 series.

Eventually, IG-88A uploaded his consciousness into the Death Star II's core computer. He awoke from his deep sleep in the computer to find that a Rebellion invasion was incoming. He was destroyed, along with the Death Star II, at the Battle of Endor.

IG-88B
One of the four identical, sentient killing machines of the IG-88 line. It was agreed by all four of the units that this one be chosen as a bounty hunter, as to distract any attention from Mechis III where the droid revolution was being conducted. It flew the first sleek ship of it's class: the IG-2000. It was this one that was onboard the Super Star Destroyer Executor during the hunt for Han Solo. While onboard, it learned of the new Death Star project underway at the forest moon of Endor. It relayed the information to the other three IG-88's. Afterwards, it started placing trackers on all of the bounty hunter's ships that were present, he would use them to find Solo. Boba Fett wasn't tricked by this, he allowed IG-88B to follow him to Bespin, where he ultimately fries the assassin droid. IG-88B was left as scrap in the bowels of Cloud City. He can be seen in the scene where Chewbacca is picking up the scrap pieces of C-3PO off the conveyor belt. Near the furnace is the upper portion of IG-88 B, oddly a dull white color.

IG-88C
Another of the four similar assassin droids of the IG-88 line. It and IG-88D were assigned as guards of Mechis III, should any intruder come upon their operation there. When IG-88B was destroyed, C and D left to pursue Boba Fett and avenge their fallen brother. IG-88C would become heavily damaged in Fett's counter-attack.

IG-88D
The fourth IG-88 assassin droid. It and IG-88C were used as guards on Mechis III. When C and D were ordered to intercept Boba Fett, IG-88C fled. D, however, crippled Slave I badly. When it seemed as if Fett was going to crash into the deserts of Tatooine, IG-88D sent an ultimatum. When Boba didn't respond, and instead plunge deeper towards the surface, the droid had no idea what the bounty hunter was doing. Fett suddenly pulled a fast one and hit the air brakes, stopping in mid-air as IG-88D's IG-2000 craft blew past him. Boba Fett then used his ship's tractor beam to pull D's ship to him and unleashed a barrage of fire on the craft. IG-88D managed to survive this assault and made his way to Ord Mantell, but was eventually destroyed by Dash Rendar, looking for information concerning the location of the carbonite entombed Han Solo.

Abilities and Equipment

 * Flamethrower
 * Pulse cannon
 * Neural inhibitor launcher
 * Repeating blaster
 * Sonic stunner
 * Paralysis cord
 * Poison gas
 * Concussion grenades
 * Throwing flechettes
 * Computer input port
 * Ability to alter body temperature at will
 * Blaster reflective palms
 * Highly advanced trackers
 * Armor nearly impenetrable from external attack

Appearances

 * Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88
 * Star Wars: Droids
 * The Lost Prince
 * Underworld: The Yavin Vassilika
 * Star Wars Missions 11: Bounty Hunter vs. Battle Droids
 * The Mandalorian Armor
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Marvel Star Wars:
 * Marvel Star Wars 50: The Crimson Forever
 * Marvel Star Wars 71: Return to Stenos
 * Marvel Star Wars 72: Fool's Bounty
 * Marvel Star Wars 85: The Hero
 * Shadows of the Empire
 * Young Jedi Knights series
 * Diversity Alliance
 * Delusions of Grandeur