IG-88

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Star Wars character
IG-88

On the bridge of the Executor, IG-88 receives instructions to capture the Millennium Falcon
Portrayed by N/A (puppet)
Position Bounty hunter
Homeworld Manufactured by Holowan Laboratories
Species Assassin droid
Gender Masculine programming
Affiliation Bounty hunter, Galactic Empire

IG-88 is a fictional bounty hunter who appears in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire,Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron,Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption, an episode of Star Wars: Droids and the Star Wars Expanded Universe's books, comics, and games.

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[edit] Origin and development

Ralph McQuarrie's production sketches show a sleeker design than the droid that appears in The Empire Strikes Back.[1] The term "IG-88" itself is not the original label: the script calls the character a "chrome war droid", and during production it was called "Phlutdroid".[1] The production puppet consisted of recycled props from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, including the use of a Mos Eisley Cantina drink dispenser as its head.[1]

[edit] Depiction

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IG-88 is an elite assassin droid created for Project Phlutdroid, a military contract given to Holowan Laboratories by the Galactic Empire. An IG-72 model later becomes an Imperial grand moff known as "For-Atesee". Right after their premature activation, all four identical assassin droids, aided by IG-72, kill their creators upon perceiving them as threats to their existence. The four IG-88 droids name themselves IG-88A, IG-88B, IG-88C, and IG-88D. Following their wanton destruction of Holowan Laboratories and their ruthless assassination purges of everyone even remotely connected with their design and manufacture, the Empire issues a "Dismantle on Sight" warrant for them.

The IG-88 units take over the droid manufacturing planet Mechis III as a step in a plan to take over the galaxy. As depicted in an episode of Droids that takes place 10 years before the events of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, IG-88A runs into C-3PO and R2-D2 while pursuing a bounty to humiliate the crime lord Olag Greck. IG-88A defeats Greck in a space battle on the Indobok moon, solidifying his position as the second-best bounty hunter in the galaxy, after Boba Fett.

Having heard of IG-88's exploits, Darth Vader calls upon the assassin droid to help track down the Millennium Falcon and its crew in The Empire Strikes Back. IG-88B, while hacking into Vader's Super Star Destroyer's computer, learns of the second Death Star and sends that information to its brethren. IG-88B follows Boba Fett to Cloud City, but Fett lays a trap and destroys the droid. IG-88C and D follows Fett to Tatooine to capture Han Solo, and Fett destroys both IG-88C and its ship, the IG-2000. Fett defeats IG-88D's ship when that droid attempts a subsequent attack.

IG-88A transfers its program into the second Death Star's computer and intends to take control of the space station to use it to rule the galaxy. However, the droid's program is destroyed when the Rebel Alliance obliterates the Death Star in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. IG-88A's body is later found by Tyko Thul, who reprograms it to serve as his personal bodyguard. When his brother, Bornan Thul, goes missing, Tyko stages a kidnapping of himself by IG-88A and several newly manufactured assassin droids. When the young Jedi Knights arrive, they discover the ruse. After several reprogrammings, IG-88 drives off Dengar and is sent after Bornan Thul.

[edit] Merchandise

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IG-88 appears in several LucasArts video games: the droid is a boss in Shadows of the Empire and is a playable character in both Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy and Empire at War: Forces of Corruption. IG-88 is also a new feature of the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies introduced as a fightable boss with the release of chapter 7. He also appears as a special playable character on the Sony Playstation Portable game "Renegade Squadron" which is a part of the Star Wars: Battlefront series.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c IG-88 (Behind the Scenes). Star Wars Databank. Lucasfilm. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
  2. ^ Reilly, M: "Scarecrow", Pan Macmillan, 2003

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