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IG-RM bodyguard and enforcer droid

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"These are IG-RM droids. Mostly used as thugs and enforcers by crime lords. They're supposed to be creepy."
―Princess Leia Organa[10]

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

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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.[11] Kasmir then used one to break Dume out of his cell.[7]

Lothal smuggler and Broken Horn Syndicate arms dealer, Cikatro Vizago, had several of these droids under his command to enforce his rule.[12] Vizago could usually be seen with two IG-RMs in close proximity with a half-dozen others located nearby in case of trouble.[6] The thug droid were capable of loading crates and piloting landspeeders, like the V-35 Courier and the RGC-18 landspeeder.[13]

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.[8]

The Mining Guild employed these droids to serve as guards aboard their ore crawlers.[9] Although thanks to their weak audio receptors the Mandalorian rebel Sabine Wren manage to sneak up on them.[14]

Former rebel agent Eneb Ray leads a group of mercenaries and many IG-RM units to attack Sunspot Prison.[15]

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Behind the scenes

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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.

Star Wars Legends featured the IG-RM as a Eliminator 434-series assassin droid that first appeared in The Courtship of Princess Leia.[16]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide
  2. ↑ Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Star Wars Rebels: Head to Head
  4. ↑ Sabine My Rebel Sketchbook
  5. ↑ Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dawn of Rebellion
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kanan 4
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Star Wars Rebels — "Brothers of the Broken Horn"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Star Wars Rebels — "Crawler Commandeers"
  10. ↑ Star Wars (2015) 17
  11. ↑ Kanan 3
  12. ↑ Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
  13. ↑ Star Wars Rebels — "Droids in Distress"
  14. ↑ Mining Guild Security Droid in the Databank (backup link)
  15. ↑ Star Wars (2015) 16
  16. ↑ The Courtship of Princess Leia

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