Unidentified IG-86 sentinel droid (Cad Bane)/Legends

This unidentified IG-86 sentinel droid was a member of Cad Bane's posse. He and Shahan Alama searched for Anakin Skywalker, who eventually dispatched the droid without his lighsaber.

Biography
Like all IG-86 sentinel droids, this droid was created by Holowan Mechanicals, to serve as an assassin droid.

During the Clone Wars around 22 BBY, a bounty hunter Cad Bane was hired by Hutts to release Ziro Desilijic Tiure from Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center. Bane gathered the team of mercenaries and battle droids to help him to free Ziro. The team included a Jedi hunter Aurra Sing, a technician Robonino, a bounty hunter Shahan Alama, two BX-series droid commandos, and three IG-86 sentinel droids; HELIOS-3D, an another sentinel droid, and this droid. Once the team was organized, they headed to the Coruscant, to start the operation to free the Hutt.

On Coruscant, Bane planned to force the Republic to free Ziro by taking a group senators of the Galactic Senate as hostages. Once arrived at the Republic Executive Building with two airspeeders, the team split up. Bane, alongside the sentinel droid, Alama and the droid commandos, headed to the entrance of the building while the rest of the team waited on adjacent tower. Flying to the entrance, Bane ordered the droids to hide themselves on the speeder. Once landed, the team were encountered by Senate Commandos. Backed up by Sing's sniper fire, the droids revealed themselves, attacking the suprised commandos with Alama and Bane. After the guards were eliminated, the team regrouped at the entrance. Leaving HELIOS-3D to the speeder and the droid commandos to remove the guards' corpses, the sentinel droid followed the rest of the posse to inside the building.

Moving forward inside the structure, the two sentinel droids led the team to the Power control room, which was in the key position in Bane's plan to take control over the building. Outside the room they spotted a Senate commando in guard, whom they quickly targeted with their laser scopes and eliminated with their blaster rifles. Entering the control room, the sentinel droids opened fire at the room's occupied personnel droids. When the sentinel droid shot a WED-15 Treadwell droid, a LEP servant droid tried to escape in fear, but was gunned down. The team then left Robonino to control the room, and moved on toward the East Wing of the Republic Executive Building.

After eliminating the most of the guards with a thermal detonator, the team finally arrived at the East Wing, where a crowd of senators were conferring. The sentinel droid emerged at Shahan Alama's side when the posse surrounded the senators and took them as a hostages. After informing Supreme Chancellor Palpatine about the situation and ordering Palpatine to free Ziro the Hutt from the prison, Bane commanded the senators to hand over any communication devices. This was interrupted, however, as Bane spotted a Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker in the building and unsuccessfully attempted to shoot him. As Skywalker fled from the East wing, Bane ordered Alama and the sentinel droid to pursue him. The pair rushed to obey, and soon leaped in front of Skywalker, opening fire against him. As the Jedi had earlier give his lightsaber to his wife Padmé Amidala as a gift, he was unable to face Alama and the droid in fight, and tried fled once more as the droid and the Weequay chased after him. In the hall of the building, however, Skywalker was able to hide himself on one of the rooms. Alama and the droid then started to search him, checking the rooms one by one. When Skywalker made a contact with Chancellor Palpatine via comlink, the pair heard him speaking and moved at the door of the room where Skywalker was hiding. In his hideout, the Jedi Knight used a mind trick to Alama, convincing the bounty hunter that they had two more floors to check. Alama left with the droid, and the pair split to search both remaining floors. The droid took the downstairs while Alama went up. As the droid moved downwards, Skywalker sneaked behind him, and attacked the droid with his bare hands. The droid fouhgt back, and when Skywalker managed to grab his blaster rifle, the droid bent it unusable. Skywalker, however, used a Force push to hit the droid against the wall. Before the droid could recover, the Jedi beat him apart with the rifle.

Seconds after, Skywalker left the room when Shahan Alama entered it. The bounty hunter found the remains of the droid, and after noticing that there were no lightsaber cuts in droid, deduced that the Jedi was unarmed. Alama then reported back to Bane, who asked about the droid, and after learning the situation, sent Aurra Sing to help Alama to capture Skywalker, in which they were succesful.

After the mission, the team dispersed, going to hide across the galaxy. HELIOS-3D went on to planet Iego, where he was found by Republic forces. After seeing 3D, Skywalker recalled his fight with the sentinel droid of the hostage crisis, comparing the likeness of the two sentinel droids.

Characteristics
As this droid was a Holowan Mechanicals-manufactured IG-86 sentinel droid, part of the IG-series of combat droids, he 	bore a strong resemblance with another sentinel droid, HELIOS-3D. He was equipped with a blaster rifle, and possessed several built-in utilities on his head, like a searchlight, which helped the droid to see in dark areas, and a reflex sight, which he used to target certain enemies. When he was destroyed by Skywalker, Shahan Alama immediately noted that his body was lacking for lightsaber cuts. The droid's chest was emblazoned with a red sunburst sigil, which was marked for all the droids of the team.

While in Cad Bane's posse, the droid followed orders of Bane and Shahan Alama, and wasn't afraid of confronting a famous Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker when ordered to do so. He even obeyed mind tricked Alama's command to leave a room unverified, even though they both had heard voices from it. During the search of Skywalker, the droid acted carefully, and moved vigilantly door to door. However, he wasn't watchful enough, and by the time he spotted Skywalker, the Jedi had already sneaked behind the droid and was able to engage it in a hand-to-hand combat.

The droid was very strong, being able to hold his own against Skywalker in a fistfight and bend his own blaster rifle beyond repair. However, he wasn't able to respond to the Jedi's Force powers nor recover in time from the the Force push, which led to his destruction.

Behind the scenes
This droid first appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars television episode "Hostage Crisis". He was also mentioned in The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part 3), a webcomic of the same series.

Appearances

 * The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part 3)
 * The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters (Part 3)