I-5YQ

"Random evolution should never have been entrusted with intelligence."

- I-5YQ

I-5YQ, or I-Five, was a wise-cracking 5YQ-series protocol droid that had his creative dampeners disabled. He possessed several unique talents, including the ability to project a variety of pitched sounds that could do everything from curing sentients' hangovers to sonically cleaning dirt off his coverings. Also, he had the presence of mind to alter the brightness of his photoreceptors in an attempt to visually display emotions.

Biography
"Organics are endlessly amusing. If only to themselves."

- I-5YQ

I-5YQ was owned by information broker Lorn Pavan, who treated him less like a droid and more like a business partner, and who installed several modifications for I-Five, including small lasers located in the droid's index fingers.

The partnership would not last, however, as Pavan was murdered by the Sith Lord Darth Maul after the duo became involved in Trade Federation officer Hath Monchar's plot to sell details of the impending Trade Federation blockade of Naboo. Knowing that he would not survive the ordeal, Pavan entrusted I-Five to Sakiyan restaurant owner and small-time criminal Tuden Sal before his death, but was betrayed, as Sal had long coveted the droid. Sal immediately wiped I-Five's memory and set about reprogramming him. But before the reprogramming could occur, Sal was destroyed financially and consequently he sold the droid to a spice smuggler.



Years later, during the Clone Wars, I-Five showed up on Drongar, working as a medical assistant at RMSU-7. There he befriended Sullustan reporter Den Dhur, surgeons Jos Vondar and Zan Yant, nurse Tolk le Trene, and Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee. Under the tutelage of the hard-drinking Dhur, I-Five successfully got himself electronically drunk one night at the Rimsoo's cantina and managed to have one of his arms pulled out of its socket by a Wookiee.

Slowly but surely, I-Five was regaining his lost memories, and by the end of the Battle of Drongar, he remembered nearly everything about his past, including a promise he had made to Lorn Pavan, which was to watch over his son who was in training as a Padawan at the Jedi Temple. Upon hearing of this, Barriss Offee gave a sample of the wonder drug bota to I-Five and ordered him to deliver it to the Temple for examination so that the droid would have a plausible excuse for shirking his medical duties. I-Five then left Drongar for Coruscant with his new friend Den Dhur by his side. I-Five and Den Dhur would eventually go to Coruscant to search for Jax Pavan, as Lorn wanted I-Five to do so. I-Five met Jax at Rokko the Hutt's stronghold in the Yaam Sector of Coruscant after impressing Rokko with his sabacc skills.

I-Five eventually convinced Jax to allow him to join him, after saving his life several times in an effort to locate the rogue droid 10-4TO, who had been obtained by Prince Xizor, an operative of Black Sun. I-Five, Den, Jax, and a Twi'lek Paladin named Laranth Tarak joined the Whiplash resistance group in an effort to assist people who wished to escape Coruscant. I-Five also assisted Jax in the hunt for the killer of Ves Volette, a famed Caamasi light sculptor. The murderer eventually turned out to be the protocol droid of the Umber family, in response to the family fortune plummeting due to the purchase of several Volette scupltures.

Appearances

 * Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
 * MedStar I: Battle Surgeons
 * MedStar II: Jedi Healer
 * Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight
 * Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows
 * Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force 
 * Death Star
 * Death Star