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known simply as I-Five, this modified 3PO protocol droid was a business partner of Lorn Pavan. Lorn had purchased the droid for a paltry sum of credits, since it was being discarded by a family which had used it as a children's guardian. The children had been playing with the droid, making it jump off of roofs in order to see how high it bounced. Pavan had just lost his son to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, and instantly bonded with the droid. Pavan gave I-5YQ an increased computing capacity and a number of other modifications, including blasters mounted in its fingertips and the removal of its life-preservation routines. To the casual observer, I-5YQ was a cobbled-together automaton, but his skills were incredibly well-rounded. I-5YQ had a sophisticated vocabulation module, which could not onlly translate and produce speech, but could emit a warbling screech that could sooth a being's nerves or shatter their eardrums depending on its frequency. The photreceptors used by Pavan were incredibly bright, and could be used in dark environments like the lights of a vehicle. I-5YQ managed to stay with Lorn through his deep depression over the loss of his son, and was eager to help him purchase an ancient Jedi Holocron from Zippa in order to earn some real credits. When the deal went bad, they found themselves trying to purchae information from Hath Monchar, but that endeavor only led them into the path of Darth Maul. The Sith lord relentless pursed them through the underbelly of Coruscant, and even the help of the Jedi Padawan Darsha Assant didn't help. In the end, I-5YQ's quick thinking nearly saved Lorn, as the droid froze them both in carbonite before Darsha sprung a trap on Maul. Maul surived, and Lorn swore to catch him. He deactivated I-5YQ and turned him over to Tuden Sal. I-5YQ had no idea exactly how long it was deactivated, but it was eventually restored to operability. After recognizing that large portions of its memory were gone or missing, I-5YQ set out to piece its history back together. It was later assigned to the Rimsoo Seven military hospital on Drongar during the height of the Clone Wars. It was on Drongar that I-5YQ revealed that Lorn Pavan had been his friend, not his master, and that he had allowed I-5YQ to develop as an equal. He had been working in the Spice Mines of Kessel before being auctioned off to a noble family on Naboo, then called up by the Republic for military duty. It was during the Separatist attack on Rimsoo Seven that I-5YQ also discovered that it had been provided with weaponry, which had been hidden within its plating and was only accessible after the droid's memory banks were forced down new survival pathways. I-5YQ realized that it was opening new circuits and dredging up new memories on its own, and vowed to uncover as much of its own programming as possible. I-5YQ reasoned that this would allow his mind, not some pre-programmed routine, to determine his ultimate fate. One of the many programs I-5YQ created was an inebriation routine, after several discussions with Den Dhur. I-5 activated the routine after he discovered that Teedle - the base's TDL-501 waitress droid - had an YX-90 drive unit installed in her frame. Teedle allowed herself to be deactivated so that the drive unit could be used to repair the base's force-dome, leaving the base without a waitress and I-5YQ without a companion. However, I-5YQ realized that Lorn Pavan had given him one last command before abandoning the droid: return to Coruscant and watch over his son, Jax. I-5YQ feared that he would have to abandon his post on Drongar to carry out this mission, but Barriss Offee stepped in to task him with carrying a message back to the Jedi Temple. Her status as a Jedi gave her the authority to remission the droid, an her offer was gladly accepted.