IG-11 is your standard IG series droid complete with 360° joints and deadly precision! With the classic chassis, IG-11 also dons and old jacket that looks like it has seen its better days. An odd thing to see a droid wearing clothing like such, especially an IG droid, though it is quite important to his goal.
You see, as far as IG-11's data banks go, he used to be an advert droid. Back then a greedy toydarian had found IG-11 left for scrap by an unknown previous owner. Whoever owned him before tclearly had his memory wiped, and the toydarian noticed the same quickly.
So the toydarian took the broken and damaged droid back to his shop in a small village on Dantoonine. It was a small, shoddy shop in the middle of almost nowhere. The toydarian sold a little bit of everything. Legal, illegal, name brand and hand made.
After fixing up IG-11, the toydarian programed him with a file of thousands of advertisements, many set to activate based on certain social instances. If someone nearly mentions being famished, IG-11's new program would activate and say, "If you're hungry, look into purcashing a bag of Wuugars Womp Rat Rinds. Wuugars Womp Rat Rinds, you can't go wrong with the taste of Womp Rat!".
However the programming installed was not an authorized corporate program, releasing a virus into IG-11 and making him ultimately unable to stops his adverts.
As you can imagine IG-11 quickly became a nuisance to everyone in that small village. The townspeople would often throw things and push IG-11 around. A bold thing to assault an IG droid, however IGs newest programming stopped him from retaliating.
A few years later a most curious Weequay would arrive to town. It was an odd occurrence as no one would ever come to this remote a place. When entering town many people would stare at him or retreat into their hostels. When the stranger arrived to the shanty towns shop, he had found IG-11 on the ground being beaten with sticks by a group of miscreants, IG obviously unable to defend himself. The Weequay shot his balster twice into the air and told the scum to scram. He then helped IG-11 to elevate himself and get back on his feet. The Weequay introduced himself as Jiin, Jiin Janren. When he asked IG-11 why he was being assaulted, IG's only answer was: "TuanTuan juice, for that warm and fuzzy feeling inside every belly!" The audio then glitched and IG-11 managed to add at the end "...p-please help this u-u-unit"
Jiin Janrens face then turned cold. He put his hand on IG's shoulder then walked inside the store. From outside IG heard the muffled voices, particularly the Toydarians loud, obnoxious way of speaking. Voices then turned to shouting. From outside a blaster shot is heard. That is the last IG-11 heard as moments later the Weequay came out of the shop. He walked up to IG-11, took out a tool, and pryed off his restraining bolt. "You belong to me now droid. I had a little chat with our mutual toydarian friend. Got you on quite the discount I'd say. How about we fix you up and give you a nice oil bath?"
From that point on Jiin managed to program the droid back to his combat directives. However the virus from the previous program still lingered within the droid and random adverts would spill out of him at random moments. Though Jiin actually found it quite humorous and entertaining. IG-11's primary objective had now changed from advertising, to the protection of Jiin Janren and all that he owns. A task IG-11 would gladly take over advertising for scummy Toydarians.
IG-11 would go to serve Jiin for plenty of years. Eventually Jiin would have a child y the named of Vero Janren. After his birth IG-11s primary task was the protection of the child above all else, even Jiin. However IG would always protect Jiin as well on particularly dangerous missions. Though when not on a mission IG-11 would watch of Vero and always keep him safe.
However on a mission to liberate crew from an imperial prison transport, Jiin Janren was gunned down by imperial troopers as he helped his son escape. Following Jiins previous orders, IG-11 was supposed to be jamming outbound signals, before being overwhelmed by imperial forces and forced to make his escape back to Jiin. IG-11 found Jiin laying against a wall, surrounded by imperials ready to execute. But before they could IG-11 exterminated all of them and approach Jiin. Jiin was clearly dying, it didn't take a droid to notice that. Jiins dying command was to find and protect his son at all costs. Jiin also gave IG-11 his old jacket and a message for Vero, in the likely event Vero doesn't remember IG-11, especially at his young age. From that point on, IG-11 would spend years trying to track the child, now man, down. Until he found word of him working with the New Republic...

Duty (Internal security)-10 for 2,500 Credits