- "These are IG-RM droids. Mostly used as thugs and enforcers by crime lords. They're supposed to be creepy."
- ―Princess Leia Organa
The IG-RM bodyguard and enforcer droid, more commonly known as the IG-RM thug droid and sometimes known as the IG-RM war droid, or IG-RM assassin droid, was a security droid model manufactured by Holowan Laboratories. They were commonly used as enforcers, and as such proved popular with gangsters. Cikatro Vizago, a crime lord on Lothal during the reign of the Galactic Empire, employed IG-RM thug droids to conduct his criminal operations. The Mining Guild also made use of these droids on ore crawlers.
History[]
Following Order 66, Kalleran smuggler Janus Kasmir and his friend, former Jedi Padawan, Caleb Dume, stole several of these from a warehouse in Plateau City on Kaller.[10] Kasmir then used one to break Dume out of his cell.[6]
Lothal smuggler and Broken Horn Syndicate crime lord, Cikatro Vizago, had several of these droids under his command to enforce his rule.[11] Vizago could usually be seen with two IG-RMs in close proximity with a half-dozen others located nearby in case of trouble.[5]
Cikatro Vizago used these droids to attack Ezra Bridger and the pirate Hondo Ohnaka, however, Ezra managed to steal the master control switch from Vizago to shut off the droids.[7]
The Mining Guild employed these droids to serve as guards aboard their ore crawlers.[8] Although thanks to their weak audio receptors the Mandalorian rebel Sabine Wren manage to sneak up on them.[12]
Behind the scenes[]
The design of the IG-RM thug droid was developed from an early piece of concept art developed for IG-88 by original trilogy concept artist Ralph McQuarrie.
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Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide
- ↑ Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars Rebels: Head to Head
- ↑ Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dawn of Rebellion
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kanan 4
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Star Wars Rebels — "Brothers of the Broken Horn"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Star Wars Rebels — "Crawler Commandeers"
- ↑ Star Wars (2015) 17
- ↑ Kanan 3
- ↑ Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
- ↑ Mining Guild Security Droid in the Databank (backup link)
External links[]
- Star Wars Rebels (@starwarsrebels) on Facebook: Vizago's Droid Bodyguards (September 17, 2014) (backup link)