IG-88 assassin droid/Legends



IG-88

Early life and creation

IG-88 was created at Holowan labs he was part of project phult droid whitch was a project that was gave to Holowan by the Empire. It was to create an assassin droid for use in battle. There were four made all identical and after being booted up the first IG-88 later to be known as IG-88A broke out of the chair he was shackled to and slayed all of his scientists. IG-88A then spotted the other three and up loaded his self into them and called them B, C and D all in order of activation he called him self A and designated him self the leader of the group. Then the escaped the testing room but one of them spotted IG-72 their predussesor. IG-88A booted him up then they alll escaped togheter. They all after killing most of the guards at the labs made it to the spaceport where IG-88A offerd IG-72 an upgrade he refused then they went their sperate ways.

Mechis III

Mechis III was a droid manufacturing plant the four 88's headed their ready to start a plan witch they called the droid revouloiting. When they made it there they landed and killed most of the people on the palnnet then started manufactuirng droids there. IG-88A then put a program into every droid the programm was the droid revoulotion. To cover their tracks IG-88B statred bounty hunting and killing the surviving workers on the plannets.

Hunting

IG-88B teammed up with Bossk and Dengar to capture the Yavin Valaska he then turned on them but failde to kill them. IG-88B was then called upon by Darth Vader he was on the Executer. He while on board leanrnt about the Death star 2 he told the others. Then he put trackers on the other ships. After being brifed IG-88B followed Boba Fett to Bespin where Fett laided a trap and with his an Ion Cannon stunned IG-88B and left him for dead in the cloud city. But later he arose and left the area then returned to Mechis III. Meanwhile IG-88C enfgaged Fett over Tatooine but was destroyed IG-88D counter attacked but was injured he made it to Ord Mantell and was killed there. IG-88A following B's information hacked into the Death star 2 but when it was destroyed so was he. IG-88B after hearing this left Mechis III and started bounty hunting full time. Rebooted

IG-88A was rebooted and after a while served as Tyko Thul's personel gurd aginst the diversity allinece.

refrences starwars fannon and wikipediea

Abilities and equipment
IG-88's BlasTech DLT-20A blaster rifle was made from a heavily modified resin cast BlasTech A280 blaster rifle used by Rebel troops on Hoth. Other weapons included the following:


 * Flamethrower
 * Pulse cannon
 * DAS-430 electromagnetic projectile launcher
 * Repeating blaster
 * Sonic stunner
 * Paralysis cord
 * Poison gas
 * Trilon gas
 * Concussion grenade
 * Throwing flechettes
 * Trifaraleen gas
 * Computer input port
 * Ability to alter body temperature at will
 * Blaster reflective palms
 * Highly advanced trackers
 * Armor nearly impenetrable from external attack
 * Cutting laser in finger on right arm
 * Extremely fast reflexes, even by droid standards; during his escape, the droid managed to kill a technician by calmly and methodically calculating the trajectory of an incoming laser bolt, deciding to deflect the bolt instead of dodging it, and furthermore making sure that his deflected beam reflected at just the right angle to kill the fleeing technician who had fired upon him -all in the microseconds that it took the laser bolt to travel from the gun to his position.

It should be noted that in Tales of the Bounty Hunters, IG-88 is said to have blaster cannons built into the structure of each arm, but these weapons are never elsewhere and the assassin droid always carries an external blaster rifle.

Behind the scenes
IG-88 seems to be primarily built from parts of aircraft scrap. His head was originally part of the distillery behind the bar in the Mos Eisley Cantina.

According to the Shadows of the Empire PC video game, IG-88 speaks in a deep, mechanical, almost Vader-esque tone as opposed to the more comical voices presented by the battle droids of the Prequel trilogy.

The BlasTech E-11's were built from British Sterling Mk4/L2A3 submachine guns.

IG-88's gun included modifications, including the addition of six grips around the barrel. The exact identity of the grip material has yet to be determined, but recent revelations suggest stamped metal T-track from old cupboards with sliding doors for the A New Hope grips. The grips on The Empire Strikes Back lightsabers are rubber or plastic and may be newer style T-track or reproductions of the original ANH grips. It is unknown at this time if The Empire Strikes Back E-11 blasters had the original ANH grip material or newer grips of plastic or rubber. Note: The row of holes on the underside of the gun had no grips as they would interfere with the folding stock. Also, the row of holes just above the folding stock on the left side of the gun received no grips, presumably this is because of the bayonet attachment stub that occupies the third hole from the front in this row.

Another modification includes the addition of a M19 or M32 azimuth scope (see below) to a mount by the use of the two hex head bolts that came with the scope. This scope mount is in the form of an approximately 1cm wide by 1/16" - 1/8" thick strip of metal sitting about a 1/4" above the gun. The front end of the strip was bent and inserted into the rear most vent hole on the top of the gun thus requiring no rivet or other attachment. On this blaster variation the rear of the mount strip goes straight back into the rear sight and is attached there presumably by riveting it to the sight.

An IG-88 body, presumably IG-88B's, is seen on Bespin in the scene where Chewbacca is recovering the parts of C-3PO from the Ugnaughts.

In LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy IG-88 is playable in Free Play mode. Also, IG-88 is available in freeplay in LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga. In a possible oversight by the designers, IG-88 is playable in the final battle of Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption,