Tig Fromm Tig Fromm was a male Annoo - dat Blue gangster and , as the son of Sise Fromm , heir to the most powerful crime family in the galaxy . Fromm ran the Fromm Gang ' s operation on Ingo where he developed a belief that the Fromm Gang could achieve dominance over their rivals through the acquisition of advanced technology and , to this end , designed and manufactured his own droids to keep his secret base functioning and to provide security . However , a series of misadventures with his creations earned him the nicknames Tiggy , Baby - Face Fromm and Junior Fromm . When Fromm learned that the scientist Lonn Idd had developed a powerful new laser , Fromm attempted to steal it for use by his gang , but was thwarted by the intervention of the droids C - 3PO and R2 - D2 . Fromm later began his most ambitious project : constructing the weapons satellite " Trigon One " as part of a plot to overthrow the Fromm Gang ' s rivals . Fearing that the secret project had been discovered by the local speeder racers Thall Joben and Jord Dusat , Fromm kidnapped Dusat to find out what he knew . Dusat was rescued by Joben , Kea Moll of the Annoo resistance , C - 3PO and R2 - D2 , who later returned to Fromm ' s base and stole the " Trigon One " . Hoping to recover the vessel , Fromm captured the young rebels and took them to his father ' s stronghold on Annoo , where Joben revealed the " Trigon One " location . Fromm retrieved the weapons satellite only to discover that Joben had sabotaged it to collide with his father ' s base . Although both Fromms escaped before the crash , the loss of both the stronghold and the " Trigon One " effectively brought about the downfall of the Fromm Gang . Intent on gaining revenge and redeeming himself in his father ' s eyes , Fromm pursued Joben and Dusat to Boonta , where he planted a thermal detonator aboard Joben ' s landspeeder , the " White Witch " , ahead of the Boonta Speeder Race . Sise Fromm , however , had hired the bounty hunter Boba Fett to capture Joben ; as Fett chased Joben during the race , the thermal detonator was dislodged and destroyed Fett ' s own " Silver Speeder " . Deciding to cut his losses , Fett captured both Fromms and turned them over to rival crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure . They were later released after paying off the Hutt . Biography . Early life . Born on the planet Annoo , Tig Fromm was a male Annoo - dat Blue and the son of the renowned gangster Sise Fromm , leader of the Fromm Gang . His brother , Sise ' s eldest son Sonko Fromm , served as their father ' s right hand in the organization until he was captured during a failed transport raid and imprisoned in the dungeon of Sise ' s stronghold on Annoo as punishment . Tig too followed in his father ' s footsteps , becoming a gangster of some repute . He became increasingly convinced that his father ' s methods and reliance on muscle power were outdated and that technology represented the future of the Fromm Gang . Establishing a secret base in the Vaj Desert on Ingo , Fromm began designing and manufacturing his own droids at the base , including the Fromm Tower Droid , and made use of his creations to keep the base functioning and to provide security . Though he was given the freedom to run his operation largely independently from his father ' s , the two would often work in cooperation . However , Fromm ' s reliance on technology was known to backfire . On one occasion , droids assigned to protect his father malfunctioned , turning on Sise and handing him over to the authorities . Fromm ' s reputation was further degraded when the attempted rescue of his father resulted in him breaking somebody else out and leaving Sise there . On another occasion , Fromm accidentally destroyed his father ' s vacation palace on Bolad . Fromm ' s failures earned him the nicknames Baby - Face Fromm and Fromm Junior . Sise , embarrassed with his son , assigned Vlix Oncard to act as Tig ' s personal bodyguard and keep watch over him . Oncard never let Fromm forget his failures , frequently referring to him by the derogatory nickname Tiggy . The ultimate weapon . Fromm ' s interest in technology led him to search for increasingly powerful weapons . Upon learning that the scientist Lonn Idd had developed a powerful new laser to aid in his droid research , Fromm set off for Idd ' s repair station to capture the scientist and demand that he install the device on Tig ' s ship . Accompanied by Oncard , a pair of Annoo - dat Blue guards and several hover guard and interrogation droid s , Fromm hoped to use the threat of force to persuade Idd to do as he asked . Aboard the space station , Fromm was about to begin physical persuasion when Lonn ' s children , Vik and Nikki , returned to the station on their shuttle along with the droids C - 3PO and R2 - D2 . Nikki walked in on her father ' s interrogation , providing Fromm with a new means of persuasion : threatening to hurt Nikki if Idd didn ' t cooperate . Before Nikki was captured , however , she was able to activate the station ' s communications system , alerting her brother to what was happening . R2 - D2 suggested a plan to rescue Nikki where C - 3PO would cause his counterpart to blow a fuse , distracting the guards , while Vik rescued his sister . The plan failed , however , due to the intervention of a hover guard , and both Idd children were now in Fromm ' s custody . Lonn Idd reluctantly completed the installation of the laser , but Fromm planned to test its power by destroying the station as he left , killing the inhabitants . Just before he could leave , C - 3PO arrived wearing the empty shell of a guardian droid . Fromm , mistaking it for a real guardian droid , planned to take the valuable droid with him and demanded its control disk . Instead , Nikki Idd threw perfume in Fromm ' s face , momentarily blinding him . C - 3PO took the opportunity to attack and , protected by his armor , proved virtually invulnerable to the weapons of Fromm ' s hover guards . As C - 3PO backed the Annoo - dat Blue into a corner , Vik activated a control , dropping a packing net on them and trapping the gangsters . Lonn Idd subsequently turned Fromm and his companions over to the authorities . Mindful of his brother ' s fate , Fromm avoided contacting his father for some time following his release from prison . Power play . By 15 BBY , Fromm and Oncard were free to pursue a new scheme for power . Despite Sise ' s distaste for technology , Fromm persuaded his father to invest heavily in a covert project to build a powerful weapons satellite dubbed the " Trigon One " and designed by Fromm himself . Despite its relatively small size , Fromm assured his father that it would have the firepower of something a thousand times its size . Using its orbital laser , the Fromms planned to move against other gangs and secure their place as the dominant criminal organization in the galaxy . Placed in charge of the project , Fromm oversaw the construction at his secret base . As the " Trigon One " neared completion , word of its development reached Demma Moll , leader of the Annoo resistance , who dispatched her daughter , Kea , to investigate . Upon arriving , the young freedom fighter saw Fromm ' s old enemies , the droids R2 - D2 and C - 3PO , together with their new owners , the speeder racers Thall Joben and Jord Dusat , accidentally enter the restricted zone around Fromm ' s base . With Moll ' s help the group was able to escape from the sentry droids which had moved to intercept the intruders . Fromm and Oncard feared that the location of the base might reach the other gang leaders and compromise the " Trigon One " project . Deciding that the speeder racers needed to be silenced before they could talk , Fromm led a group of muscle droid s to their speeder shop to capture them . Arriving while Joben and the droids were away , the droids ensnared Dusat and waited for Joben ' s return . However , Moll intervened once more to help Joben escape the trap . Fromm had Dusat taken back to his base , where he and Oncard interrogated the prisoner to discover how much he and Joben knew . Before Fromm could have Dusat transferred to his father ' s stronghold on Annoo , however , Joben , Moll and the droids were able to break into the base in a rescue attempt . When Fromm became aware of the situation , he dispatched Strong Arm Droids to ambush Joben , Dusat and R2 - D2 in their speeder , the " White Witch " , as they made their way out of the base . However , C - 3PO and Kea Moll had gained access to the security system and redirected them to a different area to allow their allies to pass . Frustrated , Fromm tried again to stop their egress , ordering his droid cruiser s outside to await them and disabling his sentry droids to prevent them attacking the cruisers . However , C - 3PO was again able to use the security system , this time to reactivate the sentry droids . As the two groups of droids opened fire on each other , the " White Witch " escaped . Loss of the " Trigon One " . In the aftermath of Joben ' s rescue , Fromm stepped up production of his Fromm Tower Droids to replace those destroyed in battle against the cruisers . The young gangster feared that the racers ' escape would lead to the other gangs finding out about the " Trigon One " but , as luck would have it , as the group traveled to Boonta for the Boonta Speeder Race , a hyperdrive malfunction caused them to head to Annoo for repairs . Fromm contacted his father to apologize for his failure , only to learn that the Fromm Gang ' s spies had already reported the group ' s presence on Annoo to Sise , who vowed to deal with them himself . At some point , Fromm moved the " Trigon One " into hiding in the desert mountains while he prepared for its launch . When Joben and Dusat intercepted a message from Fromm to his father , they located the weapons satellite and set out to prevent its launch . While Joben created a distraction , Dusat and R2 - D2 boarded the ship and disabled it before the group made their escape , leaving Sise once more furious with his son . With the " Trigon One " nearing completion , Fromm traveled to Annoo to pick up his father for an inspection of the base on Ingo . By the time he arrived , the young racers had yet again escaped an attack by the Fromm Gang and had learned the whole truth about what the Fromms were planning from Demma Moll . Upon hearing that Fromm had come to Annoo , Joben , Moll and the droids found a way to infiltrate his father ' s starship for the journey to Ingo , in the hopes of gaining access to Fromm ' s base and destroying the " Trigon One " . With the Humans hidden in a pair of cargo containers supposedly carrying parts for the " Trigon One " , the infiltrators were able to gain access to the hangar where the final work was being completed on the weapons satellite . Observing from a control room , Fromm quickly recognized the intruders and ordered his forces to stop them , but they were able to steal the " Trigon One " and escape . Believing that the " Trigon One " weapons systems were still inactive , Fromm dispatched droid starfighters to intercept . However , R2 - D2 was able to activate the weapons systems and the fighters were destroyed as the " Trigon One " fled Annoo . With the loss of the " Trigon One " , the future of the Fromm Gang seemed bleak . Knowing that the other gangs would unite against them , Fromm suggested starting again somewhere else and building a replacement for the " Trigon One " . However , his father — blaming Fromm for what had happened — insisted that he would operate without his son in future . In retaliation for the loss of the " Trigon One " , Sise ' s agents captured Kea Moll and imprisoned her in Sise ' s heaquarters , demanding that Joben and Dusat return the weapons satellite in exchange for her release . However , R2 - D2 and C - 3PO infiltrated the facility and freed Moll from her cell . As the trio fled , Tig ordered his guards to intercept , but they were unable to prevent their escape . The fall of the Fromm Gang . Desperate to prove himself to his father , Fromm planned to capture Joben , Moll and the droids and learn where they had hidden the " Trigon One " . To this end , he sent Oncard with a group of his Annoo - dat guards to attack them at the speeder shop on Ingo . Though they escaped in a landspeeder , they were pursued and channeled into a trap . Oncard returned the prisoners to the speeder shop , where Fromm personally interrogated them . Joben initially refused to tell Fromm where he had taken the " Trigon One " but , upon learning that Dusat and Demma have been captured by Sise ' s gang on Annoo , he agreed to reveal the location , but only to Sise himself . Angry at yet another humiliation , Fromm departed for Annoo with his captives aboard a " Lambda " - class shuttle . After arriving at Sise ' s stronghold , the prisoners were taken before both Fromms while Sise questioned Joben , during which the young racer revealed that the " Trigon One " was hidden in the Jarl forest on Ingo . Fromm asked his father to let him personally retrieve the ship , to which his father agreed , but only if Oncard accompany him . Returning to Ingo , Fromm recovered the " Trigon One " and flew the vessel back to Annoo , leaving Oncard to return in the shuttle . On the way back , he contacted his father to demonstrate the capabilities of the primary weapon to Sise , impressing the elder Fromm by destroying an asteroid . However , Sise ' s newfound respect for his son was not to last . Joben and R2 - D2 had sabotaged the " Trigon One " and , as Fromm attempted to engage the docking sequence , it entered a collision course for Sise ' s stronghold . After trying in vain to alter the ship ' s course , Fromm was forced to flee aboard Oncard ' s shuttle , from which he contacted his father once more to warn him to evacuate the base . Sise escaped , as did the young freedom fighters , moments before the " Trigon One " collided with the stronghold , turning it into a crater . The loss of the base on Annoo , together with the weapons satellite , effectively spelled the end of the Fromm Gang . Sise was furious with his son . News of the Fromms ' plan soon reached rival crime lord , Jabba Desilijic Tiure . The quick - witted Hutt struck while the iron was hot and placed a bounty on the heads of the entire Fromm organization , aiming to crush them while they were still reeling from their losses . Revenge . Intent on getting revenge , the Fromms pursued the young rebels in Tig ' s modified " Lambda " - class shuttle , the " Voor Viper " , as they resumed their course for Boonta . As Moll ' s " Starrunner " - class starship , the " Sand Sloth " , prepared to make the jump to hyperspace , Fromm opened fire and succeeded in damaging the other ship ' s engines and injuring Dusat . However , a weapons malfunction on the rundown shuttle allowed the speeder racers to escape before he could destroy the " Sand Sloth " . Despite having their own engine problems , the Fromms entered hyperspace to pursue their adversaries to Boonta . After arriving on Boonta , Sise contacted the bounty hunter Boba Fett and asked him to capture the speeder racers and their companions . Since Fett owed Sise a favor , he agreed to overlook Jabba ' s bounty and do as the elder Fromm asked . Tig , however , was determined to prove himself to his father and resolved to beat the bounty hunter to the punch and get revenge . After enlisting Oncard ' s help — in exchange for the promise of a new wardrobe — the pair located the garage where the racers were storing the " White Witch " ahead of the upcoming Boonta Speeder Race . Fromm planned to plant a thermal detonator on the " White Witch " , but arrived just as a gas leak in the garage caused R2 - D2 to break down the door in order to get Moll outside to safety . Taking cover nearby , Fromm and Oncard followed C - 3PO as the droid moved the " White Witch " to another facility . There , Boba Fett attacked Joben and Moll , providing Fromm with the cover he needed to plant the thermal detonator on the " White Witch " , setting it to detonate at the end of the Boonta Speeder Race ' s tenth and final lap . Thall Joben escaped in the " White Witch " and headed straight for the Boonta Speeder Race with Fett in pursuit . However , Proto One , a droid the racers had met on Boonta , saw Fromm plant the device and warned Moll . Fromm headed straight to the Boonta Speeder Race , where his family had requisitioned a private viewing box from its unwitting owners . By the time Moll reached the race track , the " White Witch " was already participating in the race . With no way for Joben ' s friends to warn him , it appeared that Fromm ' s plan was set to work . However , Fett was pursuing Joben in his " Silver Speeder " . Fett attacked Joben throughout the race , unaware of the thermal detonator . An attack involving magnets accidentally loosened the detonator , which attached itself to the " Silver Speeder " . Although Fett ejected in time , the " Silver Speeder " was destroyed . Joben went on to win the race . After the race , the Fromms confronted the victorious racer and his companions one last time . Interrupted by a blaster - wielding Proto One , they attempted to flee but ran straight into Boba Fett . Fett blamed Fromm ' s meddling for the loss of his speeder and almost his life . Capturing Fromm , as well as his father and Oncard , Fett took them to Jabba to claim the reward . The trio ' s imprisonment proved short - lived , however ; the Fromm ' s bribed Jabba into canceling the bounty on them by agreeing to pay him a percentage of their profits and committing their Annoo - dat gangsters to eliminating the Mandalorian Death Watch . At some point , Fromm dispatched Oncard to intercept Moll , C - 3PO and R2 - D2 on Annoo in an attempt to retrieve a datacard in Moll ' s possession which contained instructions on how to build a nuclear missile . Oncard brought the trio before Fromm and he agreed to let them go after Moll turned the datacard over to him , unaware that C - 3PO had wiped the data it contained . Fromm later invented a method of producing an artificial smoke cloud in space which would allow him to prey on passing vessels . While testing the device , Fromm ensnared C - 3PO and R2 - D2 ' s transport , but the two droids boarded Fromm ' s ship and deactivated the device , allowing them to escape . Personality and traits . As the son of Sise Fromm , Tig spent much of his life in his father ' s shadow and , despite running the Fromm Gang ' s operations on Ingo , his reputation failed to reach the level of his father ' s . Seeking a way to differentiate himself from what he saw as Sise ' s antiquated methods , the young Fromm developed a fascination with technology , and over time , an aptitude for designing droids and other advanced technology which he believed were superior to sentients due to greater loyalty and power . Such was the level of Fromm ' s knowledge of droids that , in addition to Galactic Basic Standard and Dat - an , he was also able to understand their Binary language . However , Fromm ultimately became over - dependent on technology and his plans often failed due to malfunctions in his droids . Although Fromm always had an excuse ready when something went wrong , his frequent failures left Sise with little faith in his abilities and the elder Fromm assigned Vlix Oncard to watch over him , for which Fromm long resented his father . In addition to his father ' s own contempt of Fromm ' s abilities and threats of what would happen if he failed again , Oncard ' s frequent mocking of Fromm and use of the nickname Tiggy proved a source of great frustration , and Fromm relished the opportunity to take his revenge on Oncard whenever possible . Fromm was determined to finally prove his worth to his father but , despite frequent suggestions from Oncard that he use gang members for jobs , he stubbornly refused , becoming increasingly reliant on droids and distrustful of everybody else . At the same time , Fromm was aware of his father ' s advanced age and looked forward to the day when he could take charge of the whole Fromm gang and put Oncard in his place . Fromm was ambitious and had plans to increase the From Gang ' s power and secure their place among the galaxy ' s most powerful gangs . He was ruthless in pursuing his goals and willing to torture or kill anybody who stood in his way , including Lonn Idd ' s children . When confronted by Boba Fett over the loss of the " Silver Speeder " , Fromm quickly turned on Oncard , attempting to blame his bodyguard for what went wrong . Behind the scenes . Tig Fromm was created for the 1985 animated series " " , in which he first appeared in the episode " The White Witch " by Peter Sauder . Fromm served as the main antagonist throughout the first story arc , consisting of the episodes " The White Witch , " " Escape Into Terror , " " The Trigon Unleashed " and " A Race to the Finish . " From also appeared in a series of adaptations of the " Droids " episodes published by Dragon Picture Books in 1987 and " " , a 1986 adaptation of the series ' opening episode , written by Emily James and published by Random House . The character later appeared in " " , the second issue of Marvel ' s " " comic series , written by David Manak and illustrated by John Romita . The comic ' s position in the timeline is unclear , but the fact that the Fromm Gang is still around places it before the events depicted in the animated series . Both of Fromm ' s appearances hinted at his many earlier failures and these were later elaborated on in the 2004 Rich Handley and Abel G . Peña article " " , which appeared in " Polyhedron 170 " and was illustrated by Jeff Carlisle . Among Carlisle ' s inspirations for the article ' s illustrations was an early promotional image for " Star Wars : Droids " which appeared in " " magazine and which what Carlisle has speculated may have been a female version of Fromm . Fromm has also been mentioned in several reference works , including entries in " A Guide to the Star Wars Universe " , Second Edition ( 1994 ) , the " Star Wars Encyclopedia " ( 1998 ) , " A Guide to the Star Wars Universe " , Third Edition ( 2000 ) and " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " ( 2008 ) . A Tig Fromm action figure was produced by Kenner as part of its " " collection to accompany the television series . In 1986 , publisher Editorial Gepsa released a comic series called MyComyc featuring characters from popular cartoon series , including " Star Wars : Droids " and " " , in a number of two - page short adventures . The comics were unknown in the until 2013 , when Dark Horse Comics Vice President of Publishing Randy Stradley explored the possibility of republishing them . However , Lucasfilm staff were unable to find proof that the comics were officially licensed and they are considered ambiguously canon . Fromm was featured in the MyComyc stories " Neutralizing Trigon I " , " Kea Kidnapped " , " The Secret Disk " and " The Cloud " . " The Stolen Ship " also depicts Oncard talking via subspace transceiver to " the boss , " but it is unclear whether this is intended to be Tig or Sise Fromm . The " MyComyc " stories depict events which are not shown in the television series and their chronological placement is unclear . Abel G . Peña , who translated the comics to English , has commented that " Neutralizing Trigon I " and " Kea Kidnapped " may be an alternate retelling of events in the " Droids " cartoon . " Droids " , a Spanish picture book adaptation of " The White Witch " , contains some differences to the episode . In this version , Joben arrives in the " White Witch " while Fromm and Oncard are interrogating Dusat , knocking down a wall and rescuing his friend while the Annoo - dat gangsters run for cover in another room and sound the alarm . After Dusat is rescued from Fromm ' s base , his father takes personal control of the " Trigon One " project , ordering Fromm to transfer all material to another base and destroy the Ingo facility to keep it from falling into enemy hands . Abel G . Peña , who translated " Droids " into English in 2014 , speculated that such differences may be due to the novelization being based on an early script rather than the final episode . In " Droids " , the Fromm Gang is said to have " innumerable droids and androids ( and , above all , clones ) " in its service while both Fromm and Oncard are described as " android s half - human and half - reptiloid in appearance . " Peña has suggested that this may suggest that Fromm and Oncard are cyborgs .