Russo-ISC

Russo-ISC was a SP-4 ISC crime scene analysis droid who served the Jedi Order, working at the Jedi Temple during the Clone Wars, a conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. In 21 BBY, Russo served as a crime scene analyzer, working alongside Police Inspector Tanivos Divo, as they investigated the murder of the Trandoshan assassin Nack Movers, who had been murdered his girlfriend Ione Marcy and his bodyguard Cassilyda Cryar.
Russo's service with the Jedi continued towards the end the Clone War and in 19 BBY, he was assigned by Jedi Master Mace Windu to assist the Jedi in investigating the bombing of the Jedi Temple hangar. In the Temple's hangar, he met Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano, who were also assigned the mission. Despite rumors that a Jedi was involved in the plot, Skywalker convinced Russo to bring Tano with him to interview the witnesses. They interviewed the witnesses in the Jedi Temple medical bay, where they learned it was Jackar Bowmani who had bombed the Temple. Russo then checked security footage and their investigation led to Russo discovering that Bowmani was fed nano-droids which went into his bloodstream, transforming Bowmani into a bomb, which left only his hand intact. After Skywalker and Tano arrested Bowmani's wife Letta Turmond for feeding him the nano-droids, Russo went through the security footage again and confirmed that Bowmani had acted alone, meaning no Jedi aided him.
==Biography==
===Coruscant work===
Russo-ISC was a SP-4 ISC crime scene analysis droid with masculine programming, who was constructed on the galactic capital of Coruscant and served the Jedi Order and the Coruscant Security Force during the Clone Wars. As the modern Jedi Order's role as guardians and peacekeepers extended to crime-prevention and detective work, Russo worked in tandem with Jedi investigators and local law enforcement, keeping both updated on the evidence he gathered.
As the pall of dark side of the Force clouded the investigators' ability to use their intuition and connection to the Force, Russo and other analysis droids became more prevalent. This continued into the Clone Wars as the Jedi's services became overshadowed by their new duty as military commanders; a role in which the Jedi never felt comfortable.
Russo and the other analysis droids worked alongside the investigators to solve mysteries and assist in crime scene analysis as the Jedi increasingly relied on the technological resources available in the Jedi Temple. This included using the Temple's cutting edge analysis equipment and facilities to help his team and Jedi Knights in their investigation.
In 21 BBY, the second year of the Clone War, the notorious Trandoshan assassin Nack Movers was slain by his girlfriend Salenga Ione Marcy and Terrelian Jango Jumper Cassilyda Cryar: his bodyguard and assistant. The three of them lived together in a skyrise apartment on the upper east side of the Jrade District. Unbeknownst to Movers, Marcy and Cryar had become very close with each other, and he failed to detect they were plotting against him. Police Inspector Tanivos Divo had been monitoring all three of them for some time. In the file Divo reported on Movers's murder after he and Russo finished their investigation, Divo said Movers had ignored his girlfriend's entreaties when he made a lecherous proposition to Cryar. This caused Marcy and Cryar to team up and plot Movers's demise.Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious 
Jedi Master Tera Sinube and Padawan Ahsoka Tano were the first to discover Movers' body as they searched Nack Movers's residence for the thief who stole Tano's lightsaber. Cryar soon fled the residence with Tano's stolen lightsaber, while Sinube determined Marcy was playing innocent and was involved in Movers's murder. The Cosian Jedi Master ordered police droids to arrest Marcy and she fled from Mover's home. Sinube, Tano and police droids later caught up with Marcy and Cryar, arresting both women. 
Russo soon joined the investigation, creating a crime scene examination report as he worked alongside Divo. Divo reported Movers had previously evaded the law due to his connections, which kept the string of dead informants, accountants and even a crooked cop from catching up to him. It was Movers's protection that kept him safe in his skyrise apartment until his own murder.
Movers was trained as a Malkite poisoner and Russo detected the Trandoshan assassin had been contaminated with the same Sennari drink that he used to poison his victims, with 11.3 of the Sennari extract appearing in his bloodstream. Russo and Divo's examinations of knocked-over furniture and claw marks on a painting of Movers, Marcy, and Cryar showed that Movers's death had been near-instant after a series of convulsions from the poison. In Divo's file on the case, he commented that although the CSF hadn't brought Movers to justice, justice had caught up to him from someone he took for granted, that person being Marcy. He also mentioned it was ironic that Movers lived his life poisoning his victims and ultimately suffered the same fate himself.
Russo's crime scene analysis revealed that the Movers's ID number was COR143817TRND195441.37, he was 1.75 meters and he weighted 104 kilograms. The rest of Russo's blood sample analysis revealed the other substances in the Trandoshan's bloodstream were non-contaminant substances. These were a potassium level of 5.2 K, a sodium level of 155 Na, a urea level of 6.4, creatinine and glucose levels of 130, while he had also had a copper level of 33 Cu.
All of Russo's analysis results were subsequently noted in the file Divo compiled on the case. Divo's grandson, New Republic police commissioner Exantor Divo of Hosnian Prime later catalogued the case in his set of security files he wrote in 34 ABY entitled Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious.
===Meeting Skywalker and Tano===
As the war continued to progress, the public's opinion about the Jedi Order and their generals became less popular. In 19 BBY, during the final year of the Clone War, the public's fear, anger and doubt led to the unthinkable: an attack on the Temple, resulting in one of the Temple's hangars being bombed. The bombing cost twenty-six people's lives, while dozens more were wounded. This shocking terrorist strike at the heart of the Jedi Temple crystallized how unpopular the war had become on Coruscant and proved how fragile the image of the Jedi as benevolent protectors had become.
As rumors spread that a Jedi might have betrayed the Jedi and planned the attack, Jedi Master Mace Windu assigned Russo to uncover the perpetrator. The Jedi Council also assigned Anakin Skywalker and his apprentice Ahsoka Tano to the mission. As Skywalker and Tano entered the smoldering wreckage of the extensively damaged hangar, they discussed the possibility of a Jedi being responsible for the bombing. Tano doubted that a Jedi could bomb a place so sacred to the Jedi Order, killing their own colleagues and dedicated servants in the process. However, Skywalker remained more open minded, as he reminded her that there were Jedi that did not agree with their approach, such as Dooku and Pong Krell, and went rogue. Therefore everyone, even Jedi were potential suspects for the perpetrator. All Skywalker and Tano knew was the same as Russo, the seeds of doubt made the truth of the matter murky and unclear.
In the hangar, they met Russo and a few other analysis droids who had already begun investigating the debris. Russo told them that only analysis and investigation would prove what was true and what was not. Skywalker requested that Russo and Tano began the interviews of the witnesses together. Russo countered, requesting to interview the witnesses and survivors by himself as many of the wounded heard rumors a rogue Jedi was responsible for the bombing, which unsettled everyone, and the witnesses would therefore be ill will towards Tano. However, Skywalker disagreed, requesting Russo bring Tano with him as the bombing killed many Jedi, as well as clone troopers and Temple maintenance workers. 
===Interviewing witnesses===
While they were in the medical bay, Tano told Russo the witnesses' distrust was troubling, as many of them had worked in the Temple for years. Russo told her fear made even the most trusting individual irrational. One injured witness said he believed Jackar Bowmani was responsible for the hangar bombing. Tano asked the Pantoran to inform her and Russo on Bowmani's identity while Russo looked up Bowmani on his datapad. The Pantoran witness told them Bowmani was one of the maintenance crew in the hangar. The witness passed Bowmani as he was starting his shift. Bowmani had been working all morning in the section the blast came from and that was the last place the Pantoran saw him. Russo then showed the Pantoran an image of an Abyssin male on his datapad and the Pantoran confirmed the image was of Bowmani. Russo then asked the Pantoran witness if he had seen Bowmani since the explosion. The Pantoran replied no, as he hadn't seen much of anything after the explosion. Tano thanked him, before she and Russo headed back towards the doors to the medical bay doors.
On their way out of the medical bay, Tano told Russo their next mission was to find Bowmani. At the doors, they were greeted by Skywalker who informed them the rumor about the perpetrator being a Jedi was growing. Skywalker told them he sensed increased anger and confusion throughout the Temple. In response, Tano told Skywalker she and Russo had a lead, and they were looking for Bowmani, as she showed Skywalker the holographic information of Bowmani on an imagecaster. Russo informed Skywalker one of the witnesses saw Bowmani in the vicinity before the bomb exploded and Bowmani had been unaccounted for since the explosion. Skywalker responded that no one just disappears. Russo stated that the bombing must have therefore been well planned out. Skywalker told Russo and Tano it had to be well planned out to get past Jedi. Skywalker left the medical bay to talk with Chief of Security Cin Drallig, while Tano and Russo continued their investigation.
As Skywalker approached Drallig on the Temple's steps, he witnessed a crowd of angry protestors, rallying against the Jedi for their violence during the war. The protestors were also demanding an end to the war as Russo and Divo later reported. Skywalker showed Drallig the hologram of Bowmani on the imagecaster, telling the Chief of Security to be on alert. Letta Turmond was one of the people in the rally protesting the Jedi in front of the Temple. She identified Bowmani in the hologram and informed the Jedi she was Bowmani's wife, claiming she had been trying to reach him since she heard of the explosion. Skywalker took Turmond in for questioning, where Turmond insisted that Bowmani would never bomb the Temple and demanded Skywalker find him.
===An unexpected discovery===
Russo created a composite of the crime scene by assembling data from security sensors, as well as efficiency and safety monitors that covered the hangar facility. He holographically projected these streams of data over the bombing site, enabling an in-context analysis of the explosion to be conducted. Russo and his team were then able to walk through varying points of the bomb site, and throttle backward and forward in the timeline, to piece together the chain of events.
After the holographic projection was assembled, Russo and Tano scanned the reconstruction of the explosion, studying the remains of the gunships and other debris. Tano used the trajectory of the debris to conclude the precise origin-point of the blast. Russo questioned why there was no bomb residue. When Skywalker arrived, Tano informed him that she and Russo were under the assumption that whoever else blew up the hangar triggered a ship to explode. Russo used the shrapnel to see if that could help identify the perpetrator. Tano speculated that based off what the Pantoran witness told them, Bowmani may have planned to bomb the hangar and kept quiet.
Russo informed Tano and Skywalker he discovered an anomaly that should not have been there. He moved the holographic display around to reveal pieces of debris from the blast origin. They contained nano-droids, which where 1.5 nanometer-long microscopic droids of a highly volatile nature. These droids were usually undetectable, except by dedicated sensors. They were illegally reprogrammed, allowing them to reconstitute carbon-based matter into dangerously unstable configurations, which in turn enabled them to create violent explosions, such as the Temple bombing. After Russo's revelation, Skywalker instructed him to go through security footage and check if Bowmani went to any other part of the Temple.
===The truth behind Bowmani===
In the Jedi Temple central security station, an analysis droid gave Skywalker a datapad with the file on Bowmani. Skywalker read it, revealing to Tano that Bowmani was the foreman of all the gunships, bombs and weapons and specialized in nano-weaponry. Skywalker and Tano then walked over to the security monitors Russo was scanning at a high speed. Skywalker questioned Russo if the monitors were going too fast for him to comprehend. Russo responded it was simple data and at that pace, he could view hundreds of hours of footage. The pace Russo could view the holographic security footage was far faster than any Jedi could view them.
Skywalker asked Russo if he found Bowmani, to which the droid lifted up his optics and scanning visor, and replied he had not. In response, Skywalker informed Russo he was going to gather some Jedi to search the Temple, telling Russo and Tano if Bowmani was still there, he could be planning another attack. Russo gestured to the other analysis droids and replied that instead of Jedi he had droids who could complete the task much faster. As Tano and Skywalker left the room, Russo turned to the other droids, giving them their next assignment.
After Russo did further investigation, he reported to Skywalker that he and his fellow analysis droids had found Bowmani. Skywalker and Tano had just finished their latest report to the Jedi High Council and Skywalker ordered Russo to lock down all exits so Bowmani could not escape. When Skywalker and Tano arrived in the hangar, they scanned the room, confused on why they could not find Bowmani. Skywalker asked Russo where Bowmani was and Russo replied part of him was in the hangar. Skywalker told him it was a bad time for jokes, before Russo revealed to them that only Bowmani's hand remained. The rest of Bowmani exploded as he was the bomb. The nano-droids triggered the carbon bomb to explode, resulting in Bowmani's death, along with eleven other maintenance workers, as well as eight clones and six Jedi, while dozens of others were wounded. Russo gave Tano a handheld sensor which revealed Bowmani's hand was covered in nano-droids. Tano asked how the droids got in Bowmani's bloodstream. Skywalker told Russo and Tano they needed to search Bowmani's home for evidence.
As Skywalker and Tano searched Bowmani's home, Tano used handheld sensors to discover nano-droid traces in the disposal, confirming that Bowmani consumed them in his food. A confused Turmond soon arrived and Tano scanned her body, confirming she did not have any nano-droids on her. Skywalker told Turmond they were taking her in for further questioning, however, Turmond attempted to flee from them immediately after leaving the building. The Jedi quickly tracked Turmond down, blocking her escape. Turmond's mouth slipped, with her declaring Bowmani was dead, despite Skywalker and Tano only telling her that he made the bomb. Skywalker asked Turmond if she fed the nano-droids to Bowmani. Turmond confessed that she fed Bowmani the nano-droids, before being taken into custody.
===Aftermath===
Back in the Temple, Skywalker and Tano reported to Windu and Yoda that Turmond was being held in cell in the Temple to await further questioning. Russo contacted Tano on an imagecaster. He was pleased to report to the Jedi that no other nano-droids were found in his search of Temple. He also was relieved that based off the security footage, Bowmani acted alone, meaning no Jedi was involved. Tano thanked Russo for his assistance in the investigation. After the transmission ended, Windu told Skywalker and Tano he believed they could guess Turmond's motives. Public opinion was swaying against the Jedi the longer the war progressed, with Turmond being one of the many people who had lost faith in the Jedi. Turmond was later transferred to military custody and was detained at the Imperial Inspectorate HQ where she revealed to Tano that a Jedi had convinced her to feed the nano-droids to Bowmani. However, Turmond was strangled to death before she could reveal to Tano the name of the culprit. Ultimately, Skywalker proved that Tano's close friend Barriss Offee was the Jedi who had masterminded the bombing of the Temple hangar and murdered Turmond. Offee had directed Turmond to feed the nano-droids to Bowmani, and she subsequently framed Tano for the bombing and Turmond's death.
==Personality and traits==
Russo-ISC was a SP-4 ISC crime scene analysis droid with masculine programming. He stood at 1.8 meters (5 feet, 11 inches) and had black sensors. His full body blue and silver metal plating was seen on ISC droids and was normally absent from other analysis droids, as Russo and his ISC counterparts did not need the same level of irradiation cleaning.
Russo was a no-nonsense analysis droid. He also was team leader, taking command over the other analysis droids who were plugged into the sensor and security networks of the Jedi Temple. Russo's detectable sense of pride, keen perception and a strong independent streak enabled him to take on some of the hardest cases the Jedi faced. Like many ISC droids, Russo had the beginnings of a quirky personality. His speech pattern was particularly unique, which was punctuated by him habitually flipping his optics and scanning visor up and down while stating over-dramatic revelatory statements.
==Skills and abilities==
Russo was effective at crime scene analysis. He was also a good interrogator, and he wanted to interview the Temple bombing witnesses by himself. Russo worked with Ahsoka Tano as they interrogated witnesses in the Temple's medical bay. Russo's tracking and pattern recognition enabled him to scan time lapsed security footage at a quick pace, leading him to conclude Jackar Bowmani acted solo in the Jedi Temple hangar bombing. Russo led other analysis droids including regular SP-4 droids while they worked with the Jedi to solve crimes. Russo frequently made brusque statements, which took Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano some time to get accustomed to hearing. He also analyzed data from the crime scenes to construct a full timeline of events. During this process, he interviewed witnesses and suspects, comparing the data from his conversations with the crime scenes' reconstruction, as well as checking local surveillance, confirming or discarding alibis.
==Equipment==
Like all SP-4 ISC units, Russo had an optics and scanning visor, which gave him the same magnification and scanning abilities as a JN-66 analysis droid. He also carried a datapad to help him filter and prioritize the wealth of information coming back to him for analysis, which was also standard amongst ISC units.
==Behind the scenes==
Russo-ISC was first introduced in "Sabotage (episode)," the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which premiered on February 9, 2013. He was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, who also voiced the clone troopers in the episode. Russo's speech pattern, name and habit of flipping his visor to punctuate his speech are all nods to David Caruso's character Horatio Caine from the crime drama series CSI Miami.
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*Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
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*Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Character Encyclopedia - Join the Battle!
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==Notes and references==
Category:Droids of the Galactic Republic
Category:Droids of the Jedi Order
Category:Droids with he/him pronouns
Category:Droids with masculine programming
Category:SP-4 ISC units