IT-O Interrogator

Designed by Imperial Security Bureau, the IT-0 was an interrogation droid employed by Darth Vader in his interrogation of Princess Leia in 0 BBY. It was a hovering droid similar in appearance to a remote, perhaps a third of a meter in diameter, with various attachments, deliberately quite visually frightening, used in torture. A reference to this droid was made in the video game "Star Wars: KOTOR II" in which the evil droid "G0-T0" is actually this same droid, but flipped upside down.

The droid was generally sucsessful in getting information from prisoners using elaborate and scientific torture methods. First, it would inject the prisoner with a mentally disabling chemical that would decrease the pain threshold, while also forcing the subject to remain conscience. The prisoner would then be tied nude to an upright board, and IT-O would do a read on the body, detecting the most sensitive areas like the genitals, joints, neck and many other less obvious body parts. The droid would then mercilessly torture these body parts with a wide array of devices, including needles, pincers, electrodes, acid jets, shears, scalpels and searing laser beams. A single torture session would usually last well over an hour. The droid had a recorder to record the entire thing, in case any information was lost in the screams of the prisoner.

Surprisingly, Princess Leia did not give in to the droids torture, despite having an escpecially brutal session.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Empire 37: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 2
 * Dark Forces
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast