IG-88 assassin droid/Legends

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, for almost unexplainable reasons, gained sentience almost immediately. He then proceeded to destroy his makers with his bare hands, and then copy his programming into three other IG-88s (and one IG-72), proceed to kill the majority of the guards in the Holowan Labs complex, and escape with a ship, the IG-2000. It ha sbeen estimated this took a matter of minutes.

The four IG-88s, designated 'A' through 'D', worked as a 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, they worked as bounty hunters, 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 unuiverse. THeir bounty hunter aliases wouold also keep them from being under suspicion.

In 3 ABY, the robots were commissioned to find the Millennium Falcon.

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. 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 about 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.

Emperor Palpatine was the only person on the Death Star to sense the presence of IG-88. Before the station's destruction, he noticed a series of doors in his throne room opening and closing wildly.

Abilities and Equipment

 * Flamethrower
 * Repeating blaster
 * Sonic stunner
 * Paralysis cord
 * Poison gas
 * Concussion grenades
 * Ability to alter body temperature at will
 * Blaster reflective palms
 * Highly advanced trackers
 * Armor nearly impenetrable from external attack

Appearances

 * Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88
 * The Bounty Hunter Wars
 * Young Jedi Knights series
 * Shadows of the Empire