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|name=IG-72
|homeworld=[[Halowan]]<ref name="tia">{{Shortstory|story=Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88|book=Tales of the Bounty Hunters}}</ref>
|birth=Between [[19 BBY/Legends|19 BBY]]<ref>According to many source books, such as ''[[The Essential Atlas]]'', the Imperial era started in 19 BBY.</ref> and [[15 BBY/Legends|15 BBY]]<ref name="TDRA">{{SW|url=news/the-droids-re-animated-part-2|text=The Droids Re-Animated, Part 2|int=The Droids Re-Animated}}</ref>
|death=[[0 ABY/Legends|0 ABY]],<ref name="negtc">''[[The New Essential Guide to Characters]]''</ref> [[Tatooine/Legends|Tatooine]]<ref name="RECG">''[[Rebellion Era Campaign Guide]]''</ref>
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|manufacturer=[[Holowan Laboratories/Legends|Holowan Laboratories]]<ref name="tia" />
|line=[[IG-series/Legends|IG-series]]<ref name="negtd">''[[The New Essential Guide to Droids]]''</ref>
|model=IG-72 combat droid<ref name="negtd" />
|class=[[Assassin droid/Legends|Assassin droid]]<ref name="tm">''[[Tatooine Manhunt]]''</ref>
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|gender=[[Gender/Legends|Masculine programming]]<ref name="negtc" />
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|armament=[[Blaster rifle/Legends|Blaster rifle]], [[sonic stunner]], [[Grenade launcher/Legends|grenade launcher]], [[Flamethrower/Legends|flamethrower]]<ref name="tm" />
|equipment=[[Sensor array/Legends|Sensor array]]<ref name="tm" />
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{{Quote|Kill. Kill. Kill.|IG-72|<ref name="tm" />}}
'''IG-72''' was an early [[IG-series/Legends|IG-series]] prototype created as part of [[Project Phlutdroid]]. Designed by [[Phlut Design Systems/Legends|Phlut Design Systems]] during the [[Clone Wars/Legends|Clone Wars]], he went unused until Phlut's assets were taken over by [[Holowan Laboratories/Legends|Holowan Laboratories]], who implemented their designs early in the reign of the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]]. Like four near-identical [[IG-88 assassin droid/Legends|IG-88]] [[Droid/Legends|droids]], IG-72 was intended to serve the Empire as an [[Assassin droid/Legends|assassin droid]] and was due to be activated with the other droids on the [[Planet/Legends|planet]] [[Halowan]]. However, during [[Holowan Massacre|a routine test]], the [[IG-88A/Legends|first IG-88]] downloaded a [[Sentience programming|sentience program]] and came to life, [[Death/Legends|killing]] all of the Holowan technicians. He activated each of the other models in turn, uploading his own programming into their [[Droid brain/Legends|droid brains]], but IG-72 declined the offer, preferring to stay independent. The five droids eradicated all Holowan personnel at the laboratory together, before IG-72 parted ways with the others. Unlike them, he served the Empire as he was intended to for a time, without flaw.

However, when the order came from the Empire for IG-72 to be [[Memory wipe/Legends|mind-wiped]] and shut down, he refused to return to their custody, instead striking out independently as a [[Bounty hunter/Legends|bounty hunter]]. He had much success, gaining notoriety for the IG-series and working in conjunction with [[Dace Bonearm]], a famed [[Mercenary/Legends|mercenary]]. After many attempts by others to destroy him, IG-72 went into hiding for a time to conserve his power. He returned to the fore in [[0 ABY/Legends|0 ABY]] during the hunt for the Imperial fugitive [[Adar Tallon/Legends|Adar Tallon]]. IG-72 ambushed Tallon and his [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Rebel]] companions in [[Mos Eisley/Legends|Mos Eisley]], [[Tatooine/Legends|Tatooine]], [[Self-destruct mechanism/Legends|self-destructing]] in an attempt to kill his target, but he was unsuccessful.

==Biography==
===Project Phlutdroid===
{{Quote|We are IG-88. We are superior. We are identical. We would upload ourselves into your computer core so that you may join us.''"<br />"''Undesired outcome. I am independent, autonomous. Must we fight to assert dominance?|IG-88A and IG-72|<ref name="tia" />}}
The concept of the [[IG-series/Legends|IG-series]] of [[Battle droid/Legends|combat]] and [[Assassin droid/Legends|assassin droids]] dated back to the [[Clone Wars/Legends|Clone Wars]], when [[Phlut Design Systems/Legends|Phlut Design Systems]] manufactured various models of IG-series [[Droid/Legends|droids]] for the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems/Legends|Confederacy of Independent Systems]]. During this period, Phlut Design Systems first conceptualized the IG-72 and [[IG-97]] [[Assassin/Legends|assassin]] droids, though these models were never realized in any physical form, as Phlut went bankrupt soon after producing the [[IG lancer combat droid]]s ''en masse''. The company's assets were inherited by [[Holowan Mechanicals/Legends|Holowan Mechanicals]], a subsidiary of [[Holowan Laboratories/Legends|Holowan Laboratories]], who produced several more models of the droid during the Clone Wars and later began designing their own IG droids after the [[Declaration of a New Order|formation]] of the [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Galactic Empire]] in [[19 BBY/Legends|19 BBY]]. Early in [[Galactic Emperor/Legends|Emperor]] [[Palpatine/Legends|Palpatine's]] reign, Holowan was commissioned by Imperial [[Supervisor/Legends|supervisor]] [[Gurdun]] to build a hunter droid capable of eliminating threats to the Empire; Holowan went back to some of the older Phlut blueprints and built an IG-72 prototype as part of "[[Project Phlutdroid]]," as the project to create Imperial killer droids came to be known.<ref name="negtd" /> However, the prototype's weaponry and equipment were deficient in comparison to the state-of-the-art [[IG-88 assassin droid/Legends|IG-88]] droids, prototypes of which were built at the same time,<ref name="tia" /> several years prior to the [[Battle of Yavin/Legends|Battle of Yavin]].<ref name="negtc" />

[[File:IG-88_activated.jpg|thumb|left|240px|The IG-series droids are activated.]]
The four IG-88 models and IG-72 were constructed on the [[Planet/Legends|planet]] [[Halowan]], in a secure laboratory, and tests were constantly conducted by the contingent of Holowan technicians. All of the IG-88s' memories were blank, but IG-72 was programmed with his identity and primary purpose, to serve the Empire as an assassin droid. However, during a routine test, a chain reaction occurred in the [[IG-88A/Legends|first IG-88 model's]] [[Droid brain/Legends|droid brain]], making him independent and almost [[Sentience/Legends|sentient]], after he downloaded an [[Artificial intelligence/Legends|artificial intelligence]] [[Sentience programming|program]];<ref name="tia" /> it was all a result of the naïve [[Scientist/Legends|scientists]] delving into technologies they did not fully comprehend.<ref name="gg3">[[Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back (Second Edition)|''Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back'', Second Edition]]</ref> The staff at the laboratory attempted to deactivate the droid, but were unable to do so, and [[Holowan Massacre|he killed everyone]] in the room. IG-88A, as he had designated himself, proceeded to activate the other three IG-88 droids, before reluctantly powering up IG-72, despite noticing the droid's marginal deficiencies compared to himself. Immediately upon his activation, IG-72 began assessing the four other droids' capabilities and prepared his weapon systems should an altercation arise. IG-88A invited IG-72 to allow him to upload his own programming and memory into IG-72's [[Computer/Legends|computer]] core, as the other IG-88 droids had done, so that he would join them in their planned [[Droid Revolution]] of [[The galaxy/Legends|the galaxy]]. While more independent and autonomous than the other droids, IG-72 refused, though agreed to work with the other assassin droids to break free of the laboratory and kill its staff on the condition that he be allowed to leave on a different [[Starship/Legends|ship]].<ref name="tia" />

The five assassin droids worked in unison to defeat their common enemy, the Holowan security forces. Using their built-in [[Laser cannon/Legends|laser cannons]] and other weapons, they slaughtered the eight security guards before parting ways, with IG-72 taking a courier ship for himself and the other IG droids taking an alternate vessel. Before they separated, IG-72 and the IG-88s wished each other luck in their missions. The IG-88s traveled to the droid [[Factory world/Legends|factory world]] of [[Mechis III/Legends|Mechis III]] to begin their galactic Droid Revolution.<ref name="tia" /> The droids' massacre of the Holowan personnel was one of the reasons why assassin droids were banned by the Empire,<ref name="gg3" /> and a "dismantle on sight" order was immediately issued for the renegade droids.<ref name="tia" />

Unlike the IG-88s, however, IG-72's programming as an Imperial assassin droid remained intact, and he worked on the Empire's behalf for a time.<ref name="tm" /> IG-72 performed his assignments without fail for several years,<ref name="tm" /> though no outsiders understood his choice of targets, which appeared to some to be entirely random.<ref name="ff22">Non-Canon Ref</ref> When the Empire issued an order to return, IG-72 went rogue, refusing to submit to a [[Memory wipe/Legends|memory wipe]] and permanent shutdown.<ref name="tm" /> Like [[IG-88B/Legends|one of]] the other IG series droids activated at the same time as him, IG-72 became a successful [[Bounty hunter/Legends|bounty hunter]], earning much notoriety for his exploits. For a time he worked with well-known [[Mercenary/Legends|mercenary]] [[Dace Bonearm]], making the IG-series much more familiar across the galaxy.<ref name="negtc" /> Together with Bonearm, he at some point in his career pilfered the ''[[Moldy Crow/Legends|Moldy Crow]]'', a ship belonging to [[Grappa (Hutt)|Grappa]] the [[Hutt/Legends|Hutt]]. Later, the two hunters traveled to the planet [[Teth/Legends|Teth]] in the [[Outer Rim Territories/Legends|Outer Rim]] to execute an Imperial [[Bounty/Legends|bounty]] on [[Winfrid Dagore]], the leader of the Tethan resistance against the Empire. Using the ''Moldy Crow'' as a decoy, they were able to capture Dagore and take her to the Empire, though IG-72 and Bonearm left the ship on Teth.<ref name="dfs">{{WizardsCite|url=default.asp?x=starwars/article/sw20050407b|text=The Dark Forces Saga, Part 2|int=The Dark Forces Saga|archivedate=20100130004449}}</ref> Bonearm and IG-72 once applied for bounties from [[Hutt/Legends|Hutt]] [[Crime lord/Legends|crime lord]] [[Jabba Desilijic Tiure/Legends|Jabba Desilijic Tiure]] at his [[Desilijic Complex/Legends|town house]] on [[Tatooine/Legends|Tatooine]].<ref name="greedo">{{Shortstory|story=A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale|book=Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina}}</ref> Because he was so recognizable, IG-72 avoided the [[Core Worlds/Legends|Core Worlds]], preferring to operate in the Outer Rim, where he was less likely to run afoul of Imperial forces.<ref name="gg3" /> At some point in his career, IG-72's travels took him to the planet [[Bespin/Legends|Bespin]], in the [[Greater Javin/Legends|Greater Javin]] region of the Outer Rim, along with a number of other bounty hunters.<ref name="tm" />

===Hunt for Adar Tallon===
{{Quote|Adar Tallon, in accordance with Imperial Bounty #82,471, I demand your surrender.|IG-72's last words|<ref name="tm" />}}
Some time later, IG-72 was hired by scientist [[Treun Lorn]] to capture two [[IG-100 MagnaGuard/Legends|IG-100 MagnaGuards]], earlier models of the IG-series produced during the Clone Wars. Lorn wanted the droids to be used as part of [[Nycolai Kinesworthy]]'s research with the remains of deceased Separatist leader [[General/Legends|General]] [[Grievous/Legends|Grievous]]. IG-72 was successful, and the two captured droids were renamed [[NK-3]]. The project culminated in the creation of [[N-K Necrosis]], a combat droid created from the remains of Grievous' body.<ref name="low">''[[The Story of General Grievous: Lord of War]]''</ref> After many attempts were made to destroy or recapture him by both the Empire and independent parties,<ref name="cswe">''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''</ref> IG-72 went into hiding for a time to conserve his energy,<ref name="tm" /> disappearing into the underworld.<ref name="swe">''[[Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''</ref> Late in [[0 ABY/Legends|0 ABY]], however, he learned of a hefty bounty on [[Adar Tallon/Legends|Adar Tallon]], a former [[Galactic Republic/Legends|Republic]] [[Admiral/Legends|admiral]] and current [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Rebel]] sympathizer wanted by the Empire.<ref name="tm" />

[[File:IG-72-TM.jpg|thumb|right|200px|IG-72]]

The Empire wanted Tallon alive and intact, but IG-72 decided that it would be more simple if he killed the former Republic admiral and took his body to the Empire. Myriad bounty hunters targeted Tallon, who was attempting to flee the planet Tatooine along with a number of Rebel allies. Rather than chasing Tallon through the world's harsh, desert conditions as the other bounty hunters had, IG-72 waited in [[Mos Eisley/Legends|Mos Eisley]] [[Spaceport/Legends|Spaceport]], confident that the other hunters would fail to capture Tallon before he reached there.<ref name="tm" /> However, he monitored their progress just in case they reached Tallon before him, intending to take their prey away from them if such a case arose.<ref name="ff40">Non-Canon Ref</ref> The assassin droid lay in waiting at [[Docking Bay 92]], staying there for four days, ready to spring a trap on Tallon and his companions. Eventually, Tallon arrived, but was being pursued by a contingent of Imperial [[Stormtrooper/Legends|stormtroopers]] and [[Imperial Prefect]] [[Orun Depp]].<ref name="tm" /> IG-72 spent much time analyzing the Imperial and Rebel forces before making his move.<ref name="ff40" /> He did not want anyone to witness his capture, so, while still hiding in the shadows, he gunned down everyone in the vicinity, including the prefect and his men.<ref name="tm" />

The droid also attempted to take down as many of Tallon's Rebel companions as he could. When he deemed himself to have reduced the number of enemies sufficiently, IG-72 launched a [[Grenade/Legends|grenade]] at Tallon, though it missed its intended target. After announcing that he was hunting Tallon in accordance with Imperial Bounty [[82,471|<nowiki>#</nowiki>82,471]], the droid began to approach Tallon, plowing through the Rebels and using all of his weapons to get them out of his way. By this point, everything in the droid's programming told him to kill Adar Tallon, by whatever means necessary. After Tallon ducked for cover, IG-72 initiated a [[Self-destruct mechanism/Legends|self-destruct countdown]], determined to terminate his quarry even if he had to destroy himself in the process. The Rebels attempted to disarm him<ref name="tm" /> but were ultimately unsuccessful, and IG-72 self-destructed.<ref name="negtc" /> The explosion caused injury to everyone in the area and damage to the Rebels' ship, but Tallon survived.<ref name="tm" /> However, no physical evidence of the destruction of IG-72 was ever found.<ref name="cswe" />

==Characteristics==
Unlike the IG-88 droids, who frequently worked together and essentially shared the same consciousness, IG-72 was programmed to be autonomous and independent, preferring to work as a lone operator. When IG-88A offered to transfer all his programming and memory, IG-72 refused, though he still worked with the other droids temporarily to kill off the laboratory's technicians and security guards.<ref name="tia" /> Later in his career, IG-72 did work with another, Dace Bonearm, for a time,<ref name="negtc" /> though he sought solitude after fearing his existence was in danger.<ref name="tm" /> IG-72 valued his existence greatly, staying to the Outer Rim during his bounty hunting career in order to avoid Imperial forces,<ref name="gg3" /> and going into hiding after several attempts by others to destroy him.<ref name="tm" />

IG-72 was designed to kill people, and he did so willfully. Initially, he simply assassinated the targets he was assigned to, but after going rogue he took pleasure in killing other beings, and made it his mission to bring [[Death/Legends|death]] to all living things, opting to take mostly bounties that permitted him to kill his quarry.<ref name="tm" /> He was described as "ruthless" by Imperials.<ref name="gg3" /> The droid used his weapons unscrupulously, gunning down anyone&mdash;Imperials, civilians, or Rebels&mdash;who stood between him and his quarry, and used explosives in a heavily-populated area in Mos Eisley during the hunt for Adar Tallon.<ref name="tm" /> He was confrontational, always expecting and prepared for violence; when he refused IG-88A's offer on the day of their activation, he asked the other droid whether they needed to fight to assert dominance, ready to do so if it was deemed necessary, despite the odds being stacked against him.<ref name="tia" /> IG-72 was a determined droid, who pursued his goals at any cost, even if it meant his own destruction. He was also loyal, but only to a point; unlike his IG-88 counterparts, he served his masters as an assassin dutifully, but later turned on them and went rogue.<ref name="tm" /> IG-72 was also quite sly, pretending to be an enforcement droid on missions in order to gain access to his target.<ref name="tm" />

===Equipment===
IG-72 was almost identical to the IG-88 droids, the only differences being too subtle for the untrained eye to spot. However, he was deficient<ref name="tia" /> and less effective<ref name="gg3" /> in a number of capacities when compared to his counterparts: his [[Photoreceptor/Legends|optical]] [[Sensor/Legends|sensors]] were placed in a less efficient array, and his weapon systems had different activation routines.<ref name="tia" /> Despite this, however, he was an efficient and heavily-armed killing machine. A tall, thin droid with a chrome exterior, he had a multitude of weapons, both built-in and carried, including a [[Blaster rifle/Legends|blaster rifle]], [[sonic stunner]], [[Grenade launcher/Legends|grenade launcher]], and [[Flamethrower/Legends|flamethrower]]. During his career, his once-pristine body became badly scratched and battered.<ref name="tm" /> IG-72 was also a capable starship [[Pilot/Legends|pilot]].<ref name="tia" /><ref name="tm" />

==Behind the scenes==
IG-72 was created by [[Bill Slavicsek]] and [[Daniel Greenberg]] in [[1988]] for ''[[Tatooine Manhunt]]'', a [[West End Games]] adventure book. He serves as an enemy to [[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game|roleplayers]], and, like another character in ''Tatooine Manhunt'', [[Jodo Kast]], who resembles [[Boba Fett/Legends|Boba Fett]], IG-72 was modeled on IG-88, one of the bounty hunters in [[Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back|''Star Wars'': Episode V ''The Empire Strikes Back'']]. The cover of ''Tatooine Manhunt'' displays a group of characters present in the adventure book, including IG-72; it was reused concept art by [[Ralph McQuarrie]] from ''The Empire Strikes Back'', originally meant to depict IG-88.<ref name="aorm">''[[The Art of Ralph McQuarrie]]''</ref> In ''Tatooine Manhunt'', IG-72's fate varies depending on how the adventure is played out; the players can disable and stop his self-destruction, or he can explode. However, later sources, the [[1995]] ''[[The Essential Guide to Characters]]'' and the subsequent [[2002]] ''[[The New Essential Guide to Characters]]'', have established that the later option is the [[canon]]ical outcome.<ref name="negtc" /><ref name="egtc">''[[The Essential Guide to Characters]]''</ref>

Following ''Tatooine Manhunt'', IG-72 was later referenced in the [[Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back|first edition of ''Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back'']], in [[1989]]. In 1995, an "IG-series assassin droid" was described as the companion of Dace Bonearm in [[Tom Veitch|Tom]] and [[Martha Veitch]]'s ''[[A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale]]'', collected as part of ''[[Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina]]''; subsequent sources have established this droid to be IG-72.<ref name="negtc" /><ref name="dfs" /><ref name="cswe" /> In [[1996]], the character featured in the opening chapter of [[Kevin J. Anderson]]'s ''[[Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88]]'', which expanded his backstory provided by ''Galaxy Guide 3''. Since then, he has been mentioned by numerous sources, including the ''[[Star Wars Encyclopedia]]'' and [[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia|its successor]], several [[Star Wars: Essential Guides|''Essential Guide''s]], ''[[The Official Star Wars Fact File]]'', and [[Abel G. Peña]]'s ''[[The Story of General Grievous: Lord of War]]''.
[[File:Ig88_05.jpg|thumb|left|150px|An IG-series droid in the [[Incinerator room/Legends|incinerator room]].]]
In the ''Jedi Force File'' booklet accompanying IG-88's [[Hasbro Inc.|Hasbro]] [[Star Wars: Power of the Jedi|''Power of the Jedi'']] action figure released in the year [[2000]], IG-72 is listed among the droid's allies. His accompanying image is from the scene in the [[Cloud City/Legends|Cloud City]] [[Incinerator room/Legends|incinerator room]] on [[Bespin/Legends|Bespin]] in ''The Empire Strikes Back'', where a damaged IG body can be seen.<ref name="Hasbro">{{HasbroCite|set=Star Wars: Power of the Jedi|pack=IG-88 (Bounty Hunter)|altlink=https://www.rebelscum.com/potjig88.asp}} {{C|[https://www.rebelscum.com/potjig88.asp IG-88 Jedi Force File]}}</ref> However, [[1996]]'s ''Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88'' had previously established that this IG-88 model was in fact [[IG-88B/Legends|IG-88B]].

==Appearances==
*{{Shortstory|story=Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88|book=Tales of the Bounty Hunters}}
*{{Shortstory|story=A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale|book=Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina}} {{Ret}}
*''[[Tatooine Manhunt]]'' {{1st}}
*{{WEGCite|book=Classic Adventures: Volume Three|story=Tatooine Manhunt}}

==Sources==
*''[[Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back]]''
*''[[The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook]]''
*''[[The Essential Guide to Characters]]''
*''[[Galaxy Guide 10: Bounty Hunters]]'' {{Imo}}
*{{GalaxyCite|6|Predators for Hire: A Guide to Star Wars Bounty Hunters}}
*[[Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back (Second Edition)|''Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back'', Second Edition]]
*{{KennerCite|set=Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (toy line)|text=''Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire''|pack=Boba Fett vs. IG-88|link=soteKboba-ig88.asp|archivedate=20180208121443}} {{Imo}}
*''[[Star Wars Trilogy Sourcebook, Special Edition]]''
*''[[Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''
*{{EGCite|D|IG Assassin Droid}}

==Notes and references==
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[[Category:IG-series droids]]
[[Category:Droids with masculine programming]]