Assassin Droid

Assassin droids were droids constructed for the purpose of killing sentient beings
== History ==
When a crime lord, corrupt politician, or bounty hunter required an individual to be eliminated, they deployed or hired an assassin droid to execute their will. These droids generally performed with unflinching loyalty to their masters, but rogue assassin droids were not unknown. Since their missions generally required a far higher degree of independent skill, savvy, and judgment than normally possessed by simple war droids, their programming subroutines, circuitry, and memory cores were of correspondingly higher sophistication and quality.
Equipped with an array of weapons, assassin droids were also used as elite infantry when the need arose for skillful and quickly adaptable soldiers with unquestionable loyalty, as with the Confederacy assassin droids deployed during the Second Battle of Jabiim.
The Jin'ha also produced cortosis assassin droids for the Trade Federation prior to the Battle of Naboo.
The planet Caprioril was the site of the infamous assassin droid tragedy shortly before the fall of the Old Republic, in which a droid slaughtered 20,000 humanoids and aliens at a swoop arena in a massive explosion in order to assassinate Governor Amel Bakli. It was during the rise of the Galactic Empire that Emperor Palpatine ordered all assassin droids banned throughout the galaxy because of how they were constantly used against him and his forces. 
An inordinate number of assassin droids achieved sentient independence, including IG-88 and C-3PX. This is presumably due to the higher level of autonomy that is incorporated into an assassin droid's droid-"brain" processor design, since independence is a functional requirement. These droids with no masters typically fund their independent existences through the use of their innate abilities, plying their trade as bounty hunters.
Some assassin droids included HK-47, the HK-50 series, IG-88, ASN-121, 2-124, C-3PX, SCr-114, A77, and the Human Replica Droid Guri.
One year after the Battle of Geonosis, General Obi-Wan Kenobi was sent to Cestus to investigate production of the JK-13 droid line by Cestus Cybernetics. The JK-13 were also known as Jedi Killers among the criminal classes and possessed shields. The JK droids were sold for almost a year throughout the galaxy
Category:Droids