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Wookieepedia Battle of Endor wrote:When the Rebels arrived, IG-88A fired the superlaser at the Rebel fleet when the Death Star gunners sent the signal to do so, letting the Imperials believe they were in control, while he prepared to transmit his master control signal that would cause all droids to turn on their masters. Many times, the aiming points and the firing coordinates of the gunners were slightly off and would have missed their intended targets completely had IG-88 not been in command to guarantee accuracy. When the Death Star core exploded, all power was lost and the destruction of the station wiped out IG-88A for good. It is unknown what would have been done to stop the rogue droid entity if the Empire had been victorious at Endor. One would think the Empire could simply replace the Death Star's computer core and dispose of the infected one, though with the nearly impenetrable defenses outside (and mostly likely inside), this may have proven to be extremely difficult.

Coiler wrote:Ah, the IG-88 story. Even when I was a teenybopper who saw no fault in Darksaber and the freaking Glove of Darth Vader, I still rejected that story as poorly done and not being-right.

Ender wrote:Seeing as how the computer full of things like the targeting programs got replaced by one with IG88 in it, the fact that they were just barely off when they were effectively firing manually is pretty impressive. Particularly when you consider the range, acceleration, and difficulty of adjusting the firing platform. Hell, in that light it is fucking fantastic.

However, I'd point out that this short is also chock full of things that contradict established canon and common sense (e.g. IG-88 having fingers and the "plot" itself, having stormtroopers do construction in full armor, etc.) so you could always discard it.

Connor MacLeod wrote:Then again as far as I know they never tested the superlaser against small objects, so some errors would be natural (at least until they weere worked out.) Since they don't know about IG-88, they would assume that the accuracy would be due to the weapon functioning, not to extraordinary factors.

Silver Jedi wrote:I thought the "tales" stories were n-canon anyway?

Anguirus wrote:

Coiler wrote:Ah, the IG-88 story. Even when I was a teenybopper who saw no fault in Darksaber and the freaking Glove of Darth Vader, I still rejected that story as poorly done and not being-right.

Ditto.

Fortunately, that part of the story is entirely from IG-88's POV and can be written off as a megalomaniacal delusion. I rather like the idea of some no-name tech catching the intrusion and just putting the droid's personality into a simulation program.

Desdinova wrote:Because, if you haven't realized it by now, this whole "Star Wars" thing is fiction...

Of those "Tales of the Bounty Hunters", the only one I thought worth a damn was Boba Fett's. I rather liked him as a brilliant psychopath.

Darth Hoth wrote:

Desdinova wrote:Because, if you haven't realized it by now, this whole "Star Wars" thing is fiction...

Of those "Tales of the Bounty Hunters", the only one I thought worth a damn was Boba Fett's. I rather liked him as a brilliant psychopath.

I thought the point of that anthology was a bunch of crackpots sitting around a table and telling stories to each other (I have not read it, though, so I may be mistaken). If so, one would reasonably ask where the story came from in-universe if no one knew of it.

Swindle1984 wrote:

Darth Hoth wrote:

Desdinova wrote:Because, if you haven't realized it by now, this whole "Star Wars" thing is fiction...

Of those "Tales of the Bounty Hunters", the only one I thought worth a damn was Boba Fett's. I rather liked him as a brilliant psychopath.

I thought the point of that anthology was a bunch of crackpots sitting around a table and telling stories to each other (I have not read it, though, so I may be mistaken). If so, one would reasonably ask where the story came from in-universe if no one knew of it.

Um, no.

Darth Fanboy wrote:Even the first Death Star, which couldn't fire off axis, was able to hit small obejcts and did so on its first attempt. I would think that the DS II should be just as accurate if not more so.

Fill me in; if the destruction of the DSII wiped IG-88 out for good, then how do we gain any kind of retrospective on his POV?

Connor MacLeod wrote: Not when they upscale the Superlaser in terms of power and precison/reliability. That is going to introduce a WHOLE lot of factors to test and address with regards to overall targeting. Surely you don't think that only targeting computers/software are relevant to accuracy?

Master_Baerne wrote:-Sigh-. This is why we all hate Kevin J. Anderson.

Incidentally, as Star Wars ships do not have extensive automated internal defenses, couldn't the Stormtrooper contingent aboard simply have removed the computer core, even if this abomination of a scheme came to fruition?

Darksider wrote:

Master_Baerne wrote:-Sigh-. This is why we all hate Kevin J. Anderson.
Incidentally, as Star Wars ships do not have extensive automated internal defenses,

couldn't the Stormtrooper contingent aboard simply have removed the computer core, even if this abomination of a scheme came to fruition?

Pretty much the only thing IG-88 would be able to do Is lock the doors in front of them, then watch via the security cams as they proceed to blast through them

Batman wrote:As said computer core was, as far as everybody knew, doing exactly what it SHOULD be doing, while I hate that story as much as everybody else, until somebody shows the Imperials NOTICED that Computer Core was tampered with, there was no REASON for them to take action in the firat place.