I-5YQ

I-5YQ (pronounced Eye-Fivewhycue), or I-Five, was a modified 5YQ-series protocol droid that had his creative dampeners disabled by information broker Lorn Pavan. Finding a kindred spirit in I-Five, Lorn made him his business partner and treated the droid as an equal.

Their partnership would not last, however, as Lorn was murdered by the Sith Lord Darth Maul after the duo became involved in Trade Federation officer Hath Monchar's plot to sell details of the impending Trade Federation blockade of Naboo. Knowing that he would not survive the ordeal, Lorn entrusted I-Five to Sakiyan restaurant owner and small-time criminal Tuden Sal before his death, but was betrayed, as Sal had long coveted the droid. Sal immediately wiped I-Five's memory and set about reprogramming him. But before the reprogramming could occur, Sal was destroyed financially and consequently he sold the droid to a spice smuggler.

During the Clone Wars, I-Five worked as a medical assistant at RMSU-7, where he met Sullustan reporter Den Dhur and Jedi Padawan Barriss Offee. By the end of the Battle of Drongar, I-Five had regained his wiped memories. After the battle, he set for Coruscant to deliver a vial of bota to the Jedi Temple and to fulfill his promise to Lorn Pavan - to watch over his son who had been taken for training by the Jedi Order.

Around 19 BBY, I-Five and his friend Den Dhur were searching the undercity of Imperial Center for the young Jedi. After they found Jax at Rokko the Hutt's stronghold, I-5 convinced Jax to allow him and Den to help him. I-Five and his friend then joined the Whiplash and helped transport beings off of Coruscant. While arranging for safe passage of a light sculptor Ves Volette and his lover Dejah Duare, they got involved in the investigation of Volette's murder. Some time later, Tuden Sal contacted Jax Pavan and his team, hoping to enlist I-Five's help in a plot to assassinate Emperor Palpatine. I-Five agreed after an initial conflict with the other members of the team, hoping to avenge his friend. At the same time, Darth Vader sent the Inquisitor Probus Tesla after Jax Pavan and I-Five. During the Duel at Rainbow Parkway and Gallery Row, Pavan discovered that I-Five had a Force-signature. Аlthough this meant that he could be sensed through the Force, I-Five and Pavan decided to go through with the assassination attempt. However, when their friend Gray Paladin Laranth Tarak and young Force-adept Kajin Savaros were captured by Tesla and Vader, it became a rescue mission. During the following confrontation, I-Five was damaged, but was later repaired by Whiplash mechanics.

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