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this first of the IG-series droids to be activated by IG-88A became the group's external "spokesman." When the IG-88 droid realized that they were being hunted down, they arranged to have IG-88B show up far from their base on Mechis III, posing as a bounty hunter. They felt that a trail left behind by IG-88B in some remote system would prevent spies and other hunters from locating them on Mechis III. The first bounty was collected on Peridon's Folly. At one time, IG-88B's batteries drained, and he was placed on a droid barge for shipment to Olag Greck. Greck believed that IG-88B was sent by one of his enemies as part of a plot to kill Greck. Greck had planned to wiped IG-88B's memory banks and use him as a battle droid, but IG-88B was not completely incapacitated. He had enough of a charge left to trigger a programm trap upon arrival at Hosk Station, where he kidnapped R2-D2 and fled into the station. He forced Artoo to help him make repairs to his body and sneak him to the spaceport's docks, where he could steal a ship and escape. C-3PO, who was helping Greck locate IG-88B, was mixed up with them, and the three droids fled the station. IG-88B, realizing that the two droids would be excess baggage, jettisoned them in one of the stolen ship's lifepods after shaking Greck's pursuit. Later, IG-88B was sent to the Hoth System by IG-88C, in hopes of gaining favor with Darth Vader. IG-88B responded to the call for bounty hunters to capture Han Solo, and the "dismantle on sight" order was ignored in the hopes of capturing Solo. IG-88B linked to the Executor's computer banks, downloading the entire database while placing microtracers into each of the other bounty hunters' ships. Within the data was the knowledge of the construction of the second Death Star, which IG-88b uploaded to its companions. IG-88B learned that Solo was on Cloud City, and went to complete its secondary mission. However, Boba Fett had discovered the microtracer, and set up a trap for the droid. Fett linked several ion cannons together, and when IG-88B crossed a trigger beam, they fired on it. IG-88B's systems went haywire, shutting down major portions of itself before it could recover. Fett placed two of IG-88B's concussion missiles in strategic body cavities, and the detonation destroyed IG-88B. However, just before its destruction, IG-88B sent a frantic message back to Mechis III, informing its three conuterparts of the failureof the mission.