I - 5YQ I - 5YQ , or I - Five , was a modified 5YQ - series protocol droid that had his creative dampeners disabled by information broker Lorn Pavan . Finding a kindred spirit in I - Five , Lorn made him his business partner and treated the droid as an equal . The partnership would not last , however , as Lorn was murdered by the Sith Lord Darth Maul after the duo became involved in Trade Federation officer Hath Monchar ' s plot to sell details of the impending Trade Federation blockade of Naboo . Knowing that he would not survive the ordeal , Lorn entrusted I - Five to Sakiyan restaurant owner and small - time criminal Tuden Sal before his death , but was betrayed , as Sal had long coveted the droid . Sal immediately wiped I - Five ' s memory and set about reprogramming him . But before the reprogramming could occur , Sal was destroyed financially and consequently he sold the droid to a spice smuggler . During the Clone Wars I - Five worked as a medical assistant at RMSU 7 where he met Sullustan reporter Den Dhur and Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee . By the end of the Battle of Drongar I - Five had regained the wiped memories . After the battle he set for Coruscant to deliver a vial of bota to the Jedi Temple and to fulfill his promise to Lorn Pavan - to watch over his son who had been taken for training by the Jedi Order . Around 19 BBY I - Five and his friend Den Dhur were searching the undercity of Imperial Center for the young Jedi . After they found Jax at Rokko the Hutt ' s stronghold I - 5 convinced Jax to allow him and Den to help him . I - Five and his friend then joined the Whiplash and helped transport beings off of Coruscant . While arranging for safe passage of a light sculptor Ves Volette and his lover Dejah Duare they got involved in the investigation of Volette ' s murder . Some time later Tuden Sal contacts Jax Pavan and his team hoping to enlist I - Five ' s help in a plot to assassinate Emperor Palpatine . I - Five agrees , after an initial conflict with the other members of the team , hoping to avenge his friend . At the same time Darth Vader sends the Inquisitor Probus Tesla after Jax Pavan and I - Five . During the Duel at Rainbow Parkway and Gallery Row Pavan finds out that I - Five has a Force - signature . Аlthough this meant that he could be sensed through the Force I - Five and Pavan decided to go through with the assassination attempt . But when their friend Gray Paladin Laranth Tarak and young Force - adept Kajin Savaros were captured by Tesla and Vader the mission became a rescue one . During the following confrontation I - Five was damaged and was later repaired by Whiplash mechanics . Biography . I - 5YQ was at first owned by a family that assigned him as the guardian of its spoiled children , who would often ask I - Five to jump from the roof to see how high he would bounce . Later I - Five was purchased by information broker Lorn Pavan , who was hoping to find information he could sell . After purchasing I - Five , Lorn made several modifications to the droid , like the ability to shoot lasers from his fingertips , to emitting a high frequency sound that could either cure a hangover or cause debilitating pain . Lorn treated him less like a droid and more like a business partner . In 32 BBY , Lorn and I - Five came into the possession of a holocron that detailed the planned blockade of Naboo from the Neimoidian Hath Monchar . As a result , Lorn and I - Five were hunted by the Sith Lord Darth Maul , who wanted to recover the holocron . Along with the Jedi Padawan Darsha Assant , the trio escaped to the city ' s underlevels with the Sith on their trail . After being cornered by the Sith , Assant sacrificed herself to give Lorn and I - Five a chance to escape . Devastated by the Jedi ' s death , Lorn deactivated I - Five to prevent the droid from accompanying him to avenge Assant . He entrusted I - Five to one of his contacts , Tuden Sal , with instructions to bring I - Five to the Jedi Temple , before going after the Sith . But Sal , who had long coveted I - Five , wiped his memory instead for his own personal use . I - 5YQ ended up in the employ of spice smugglers on the Kessel Run , and after authorities seized and sold the droid , he wound up in the employ of a noble family of Naboo . Years later , during the Clone Wars , I - Five showed up on the planet Drongar , working as a medical assistant at RMSU - 7 . There he befriended Sullustan reporter Den Dhur , surgeons Jos Vondar and Zan Yant , nurse Tolk le Trene , and Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee . Under the tutelage of the hard - drinking Dhur , I - Five successfully got himself electronically drunk one night at the Rimsoo ' s cantina and managed to have one of his arms pulled out of its socket by a Wookiee . Slowly but surely , I - Five was regaining his lost memories , and by the end of the Battle of Drongar , he remembered nearly everything about his past , including a promise he had made to Lorn , which was to watch over his son , Jax Pavan , who was in training as a Padawan at the Jedi Temple . Upon hearing of this , Offee gave a sample of the wonder drug bota to I - Five and ordered him to deliver it to the Temple for examination so that the droid would have a plausible excuse for shirking his medical duties . I - Five then left Drongar for Coruscant with his new friend Dhur by his side . I - Five met Jax at Rokko the Hutt ' s stronghold in the Yaam Sector of Coruscant after impressing Rokko with his sabacc skills . I - Five eventually convinced Jax to allow him to join him , after saving Jax ' s life several times in an effort to locate the rogue droid 10 - 4TO , who had been obtained by Prince Xizor , an operative of Black Sun . I - Five , Dhur , Jax , and a Twi ' lek Gray Paladin named Laranth Tarak joined the Whiplash resistance group in an effort to assist people who wished to escape Coruscant . I - Five also assisted Jax in the hunt for the killer of Ves Volette , a famed Caamasi light sculptor . The murderer eventually turned out to be the protocol droid of the Umber family , in response to the family fortune plummeting due to the purchase of several Volette sculptures . Around that time Sal learned of I - Five ' s survival and formulated a plan to use him as an assassin in a plot against Palpatine . At first I - Five was hostile towards Sal , and held him at laserpoint . Dejah , Den and Rhinann were against . Den pointed out that I - Five was an older model than those at Palpatine ' s court , Rhinann said that the plan was too risky and Dejah told them that if the plan failed , Palpatine ' s attention would fall on the Whiplash . As Sal presented his plan , I - Five said that he would hear out everyone ' s opinions before deciding whether he would participate or not , however he would favor Jax ' s view . Jax said that he doesn ' t know what his answer will be . After a meeting with Whiplash ' s leader Thi Xon Yimmon , Pavan decides against . When he told this to I - Five , Jax triggered a message from his father . After listening to the message , he made up his mind and told I - Five that they would go ahead with the assassination attempt . Meanwhile , Dejah and Rhinann had taken the young Force - adept Kajin Savaros , who Pavan has been training , for a walk , and were attacked by three Inquisitors - Yral Chael , Mas Sirrah , and Probus Tesla . Soon after the battle between the Inquisitors , Kaj and Laranth begun , Jax and I - Five arrived on the scene on Police prefect Pol Haus ' s airspeeder . I - Five killed one of the Inquisitors with his fingertip lasers . During the battle , both Pavan and Tesla sensed a strange Force - echo coming from I - Five . This made Jax rethink his approval of Sal ' s plan , since I - Five could be sensed through the Force , and thus was not the perfect assassin Sal thought him to be . However , Sal still wanted to proceed with his plan and tried to think of a way for I - Five to kill Palpatine , regardless of what Pavan and Tesla thought . He decided the only way to accomplish this would be to strip I - Five of his programming to his basic level , which would have also made it impossible for him to harm an organic being . The only way around that would be for I - Five to have a handler who would reinstate his programing when he was close to the Emperor , thus killing Palpatine . However , when I - Five ' s sentience is restored , Palpatine would easily be able to sense and destroy him . Jax is concerned for I - Five ' s soul , and is reluctant to have I - Five ' s programing removed . While Pavan and Sal argued , I - Five cut in and asked how Sal was planning to get him past the Senate ' s security . Sal proposes to disguise I - Five as a part of a delegation . Since Pavan insisted on being I - Five ' s handler , they decided to disguise Pavan as an Inquisitor . Meanwhile , Laranth took Kaj to a gallery which would serve as a safe house for the young adept . Along the way they were ambushed by Inquisitors and captured . Unknown to anyone , Dejah was the one who had betrayed Kaj and Laranth to Vader . When Pavan found out that Laranth and Kaj were captured , together with I - Five , he went to speak with Yimmon , and Rhinann was left to inform Sal about the change in the plan - from a assassination plot to a rescue mission . While they were planning the operation , I - Five pointed out that Laranth and Kaj were bait for him and Pavan , and proposes a trade - himself for the Gray Paladin and the boy . They knew that Vader would set some kind of a trap , so they decided to consider it in their plan . When Sal asked to include the Emperor ' s presence on the site so the droid could kill him , I - Five suggested to leak information about the bota to Palpatine , thus making sure he would be there . In the end , the idea of trade was accepted and they contacted the Dark Lord . It was decided that Dejah would escort the droid , since she had the best chance of keeping Kaj calm and Rhinann . They were escorted by Inquisitors to an abandoned docking chamber control room , where Vader , Tesla , Kaj , Laranth and Palpatine were waiting . Rhinann had wondered why I - Five wasn ' t firing , before he realized that the Emperor was only a hologram , which promptly disappeared . Vader then asked Dejah who has the bota , and reveals that she was the traitor . While Vader tortures Laranth , Pavan , who had been disguised as one of the escorting Inquisitors , reactivated I - Five ' s personality . When Vader demanded that Pavan would tell the droid to give him the bota , I - Five said that he did not have it . Vader was interested in the fact that he could read I - Five ' s intentions as emotions , and that he was very protective of what he holds dear . The Sith Lord then threatened to make I - Five watch as he destroys the droid ' s friends , unless he told him who has the bota . I - Five had given the bota to Laranth for safekeeping , and after a mental touch by Pavan , she surrendered it to Vader . When Vader demanded to be given a pyronium crystal Anakin Skywalker had given Jax Pavan years earlier , and the Sith Holocron , I - Five informed him that they don ' t have it . Although he didn ' t have the holocron , which contained the information on how to combine the effects the bota and the pyronium , Vader injected himself with the bota . The effect made Vader toss out Force energy in random directions . One of his shots sent a durasteel frame down on I - Five , trapping the droid . Another shattered the window and one hit the EMP field that had been scrambling Laranth ' s Force - senses , and the other had killed Dejah . While Pavan battled away Vader ' s Force blasts , I - Five used the laser in his one remaining arm to work his way free . The arrival of Den Dhur and a Whiplash team led by Yimmon distracted the Dark Lord , and the surprise attack of the enraged Rhinann sent the Sith Lord over the edge of the broken window . The damages inflicted on I - Five were repaired by Whiplash ' s mechanics , and I - Five received some new modifications - monofilament line , a small automatic slugthrower and the ability to shoot streams of non - lethal gases .