Troubleshooter

"Well, if droids couldn't think just a little bit, I'd be out of a job."

- Crinx Polvar

A troubleshooter was a privately employed combat technician who specialized in forcefully deactivating faulty droids. Troubleshooters were often hired by major droid-manufacturing companies such as Czerka Arms and Holowan Laboratories.

If a particular model of battle or assassin droid was found to be dangerously malfunctional, or if a specific droid's programming had caused it to turn renegade, the company allegedly responsible would dispatch troubleshooters to hunt down and physically eliminate the problem before it became a liability. To accomplish this task, troubleshooters were trained to wield numerous models of Ion, EMP, DEMP, and other anti-droid weaponry.

Troubleshooters usually learned to deal with biological adversaries as well, for various reasons. Bounty hunters who recognized troubleshooters would sometimes have them killed, knowing that the company who sent them would eventually be forced to post a bounty on whatever droid the troubleshooter was apprehending. Some of the less ethical companies were also rumored to have their troubleshooters eliminate any of their target droid's living victims or witnesses, so as to remove any evidence of the faulty droid ever existing.

Many of the Holowan employees killed by the four IG-88 droids were troubleshooting agents assigned to silence the IG-88 disaster. Unfortunately for them, their tracking skills only saved IG-88 the trouble of hunting them down himself.

Known troubleshooters

 * Crinx Polvar