Sorry if this has been resolved already but the search thingy is taking for ever to find something on this. I watched the Clone Wars animated series again and in one episode Durge rides with a squad of droids on speeders against the Republic forces attacking Muunilinst. These droids bared an uncanny resemblance to IG-88. But according to Tales of the Bounty Hunters, the IG-88 model was an Imperial development. Has a connection been made between these droids and IG-88?
That model of battle droids was originally produced by the InterGalactic Banking Clan, hence the 'IG' designation and the reason their basic shape is similar to that of the species of the Banking Clan leader. However, the IG droids were pretty much completely wiped out during the Clone Wars, presumably along with the Banking Clan itself. A few years later, during the beginning of the Empire's reign, Imperial scientists began a project to improve upon the design of the IG droids, creating the prototypes IG-72, the four regular IG-88s, and a final completed version of IG-88 which was given to the Empire and became a Grand Moff. The other four IG-88s later awoke and killed the Imperial scientists who created them, freeing IG-72 in the process. IG-72 became an assasin droid and was destroyed on Tatooine, while the four rouge IG-88s pretended to be one bounty hunter while secretly launching a scheme to take over the galaxy. One of them was destroyed by Boba Fett on Bespin (you can see his corpse in the background in ESB), one of them was destroyed in a space battle with Boba Fett, another was seemingly destroyed in the same space battle but later was destroyed by Dash Rendar on Ord Mantell, and the final one uploaded its consciousness into the second Death Star and 'died' when that blew up. However, the body of the one that had uploaded its consciouness into the Death Star was found and reprogrammed for bounty hunting and bodyguard duties.
Yeah, I don't really like that idea either. Or the upload idea. I've read about it before on the boards, still not hot on it. Is this all in Tale Of The Bounty Hunters?
the IG-88 A,B,C,D story, which ends with IG-88 uploading his memory into the DS2 is from the IG-88 story in Tales from the Bounty Hunters. the idea that IG-88's body was then later found and reprogrammed was made because IG-88 reappeared in the young jedi knight series and they had to explain he came back. the concept of the IG-droid as moff came from a choose-your-own-adventure type book series set in the SW universe... was that Star Wars Adventures? IG-88 also faced off against Dash Rendar in Shadows of the Empire.
Yes, the story is "Therefore I am: The Tale of IG-88" in Tales of the Bounty Hunters. As for the question, the droid isn't IG-88. Follow the link nicely posted above for the droid in question. I_F
Can't we shift the "Therefore I Am" tale into the "stories told in universe category"? (I.E. Hoth stuff) The story is completly and utterly lame. IG-88 uploaded himself into the DS2? Stupid. KJA? Stupid. I much prefer the "Rogue battledroid left over from the Clone Wars" theory.
IG-88A loading himself onto the DS2 mainframe isn't a stupid idea. I kinda liked it. It doens't change anything in the way of continuity. Not really anyway.
I think that tale is popular enough that it is unlikely to be classified into "Hoth Stuff" territory, especially since it doesn't radically contradict character fates (like Janson's death). >> IG-88 also faced off against Dash Rendar in Shadows of the Empire.<< That would be D.
i been meaning to inquire: when does the battle of muunilist take place according to the clone wars timeline. also, why arn't the cartoons listed in the timelines of the delray books?
4 months ABG The reason it;s not listed, obviously, is because they know they can't compete with another Timeline