IG - 88B IG - 88B was an IG - 88 assassin droid from about 15 BBY to 3 ABY . He was the first replica to be activated by IG - 88A in Holowan Laboratories . Biography . Early life . After IG - 88A gained " sentience programming " and killed much of the Project Phlutdroid personnel , IG - 88B was activated , named by order of activation , and given the same sentience programming from the first unit . With the other IG - 88s , as well as IG - 72 , the five droids managed to escape the factory and leave a swath of destruction in their wake . IG - 88B , often referred to simply as " IG - 88 " by others , became a legend among bounty hunters . He became known as the second - best bounty hunter in the galaxy — second only to Boba Fett . IG - 88B piloted a modified Aggressor assault fighter named " IG - 2000 " . Bounty hunter . In 5 . 5 BBY , IG - 88B was tasked with a mission to humiliate Olag Greck by one of Greck ' s competitors . The droid stowed aboard a droid barge carrying one of Greck ' s spice shipments , but its batteries drained , leaving it in a state of cyberostasis . Discovering the assassin , Greck had IG - 88B restrained in carbonite shackles , and put Bardo on guard for the duration of the flight to Hosk Station . Greck planned to give the droid a memory wipe and turn it into his employee , hoping to have it fight to the death as part of a spectacle in the Hosk Arena . However , IG - 88B awoke during the flight , and broke out of his restraints while Bardo was distracted by the bickering of fellow passengers C - 3PO and R2 - D2 . Having utilized a program trap to boost his servomotors , IG - 88B began tearing the ship apart , causing Bardo and the droids to flee into Hangar Three aboard the station . The Gamorrean Xob shot the droid as it emerged from the barge , causing the area to be locked down . IG - 88B blasted Xob in return , and corralled R2 - D2 into giving him access to the rest of the station . Pausing in an alleyway , IG - 88B forced the astromech to repair his blaster damage while Greck searched the station for the assassin . Disguising himself with a hooded cloak , IG - 88B made for a shuttle to Kalarba City , but he and Artoo were discovered by C - 3PO and Greck ' s team . A firefight ensued , and IG - 88B was briefly trapped when Xob fired a carbonite constrictor net , pinning him against a wall . Greck taunted the droid , who dropped a smoke grenade and fled with Artoo into the shuttle access tube . IG - 88B boarded the shuttle , bringing C - 3PO along as well , and blasted out of Hosk Station , pursued by Greck ' s cruiser . The droid made for the moon of Indobok , and gave Greck the slip in the canyons . He blasted a rocky archway down onto the cruiser , although stray rubble clipped the shuttle , causing Artoo and Threepio to tumble into the onboard escape pod . Artoo launched out of the shuttle just as IG - 88B jumped into hyperspace . The droid ' s mission was complete , and Greck deduced that IG - 88B had simply been tasked with humiliating him , rather than killing him . Revolution and deactivation . IG - 88B played a crucial role in the planned Droid Revolution on Mechis III by being the main bounty hunter " face " of the group . He took jobs that often required massive amounts of destruction , in order to further lead pursuing Imperial forces away from Mechis III . He took part in the skirmish on Ord Mantell in 0 . 5 ABY . He was the unit who was contacted to capture Han Solo by Darth Vader , who , despite being quite aware of the " dismantle on sight " order concerning the assassin droids , valued the capture of Han Solo too much to be concerned with the risks involved . While on board Vader ' s ship , the " Executor " , IG - 88B downloaded some of the ship ' s computer files , including information on the second Death Star , which he transmitted to IG - 88A , before departing . He then planted a tracer on " Slave I " and followed Boba Fett to Bespin , intent on killing him . There , he followed Fett to the bowels of Cloud City , where he walked straight into a trap set by Fett . Four remotely activated ion cannons fired on IG - 88B when he walked through a doorway . Boba Fett then shot him with a shoulder - mounted ion cannon , knocking him to the floor . He extracted IG - 88B ' s own concussion grenades and placed them inside the droid ' s metal casing . IG - 88B was blown apart from the inside . The last thing he heard was Fett ' s nonchalant remark to the watching Ugnaughts , " You ' re welcome to what ' s left . " Behind the scenes . IG - 88B was played by Paul Klein in " " . In the " Jedi Force File " booklet accompanying IG - 88 ' s Hasbro " " action figure released in the year 2000 , IG - 72 is listed among the droid ' s allies . The accompanying image is from the scene in the Cloud City incinerator room on Bespin in " The Empire Strikes Back " , where a damaged IG body can be seen . However , 1996 ' s " Therefore I Am : The Tale of IG - 88 " had previously established that this IG - 88 model was in fact IG - 88B . Likewise , the " Rebellion Era Campaign Guide " states that IG - 88B was " blown to pieces " by Boba Fett but not to what extent . An assassin droid in reference to IG - 88B is featured in an easter egg in . He is featured along with the other bounty hunters and Darth Vader from the Bounty Hunter scene of .