IG-92

"I calculate there are few surviving Jedi. We must set aside our differences to survive."

IG-92, more commonly referred to as Ignitus, was a Masculine IG-series Assassin Droid built during the last days of theClone Wars. Discovered in a lab on Mygeeto by Jedi Padawan Orion Ricken, he was activated by the young Jedi during his attempt to escape Order 66.

The droid became an unlikely friend of Orion's, and the two assisted each other in fleeing to the Outer Rim to escape the Galactic Empire. They worked as mercenaries there, fancying jobs that damaged the Empire in particular. They also were part-time operatives for the Separatists, defending their last holdouts, but they had little success in this field.

In 9 BBY, they encountered an enigmatic Gray Jedi calling himself Smoke, who wished to train Orion the ways of the Gray Jedi to stop the Empire from flourishing. Smoke ordered Ignitus to infiltrate Scarif and delete all files regarding Orion's existance to prevent the Inquisitors from interfering with Orion's training. To prepare the droid for possible encounters with Force-sensitives, Snoke trained Ignitus lightsaber combat and gave him an electrostaff to use it.

The droid managed to infiltrate Scarif and complete its mission, but then had to kill a force-sensitive Inquisitor to escape. This alerted the Empire to the existance of a rogue assassin droid, and the resulting investigation forced Smoke to send the droid away to leave a false trail for the Imperials while he completed Orion's training.

Ignitus spent three years running from Imperials before heavy commitment in the Galactic Civil War forced the Empire to postpone the investigation. The droid spent a few months working low-profile bounty hunting jobs before returning to Orion and Smoke.

Ignitus assisted Orion and Smoke on secret missions against the Empire after that, usually slicing into Imperial computers and/or taking out targets stealthily. Since their operations often involved staging the results as accidents, IG-92's slicing came in handy, as it was able to alter ship logs and damage reports.

One of their operations went sour as they were trying to destroy an Imperial cargo ship containing Death Star components, when a duo of Inquisitors ambushed them. Orion managed to kill the first, while the second one lost a hand while duelling with Smoke. The second then killed Smoke, and forced Orion and Ignitus to abort the mission.

Now exposed, Orion and Ignitus fled to Wild Space and began to lay low. Orion founded an independent Gray Jedi faction, the Gray Age Society, which began to rule a portion of the Outer Rim from the shadows.