The confrontation that transpired on the way to the second Death Star concluded swiftly, not long after its commencement. This conflict was initiated when the assassin droid, IG-88A, managed to halt an Imperial shuttle transporting the Death Star's Computer Core. Following the obliteration of the shuttle's accompanying vessels, IG-88 gained entry to the transport. Inside, IG-88's stormtrooper droids engaged in combat with actual stormtroopers present on the shuttle. To IG-88A's surprise, Supervisor [Gurdun], who had been in charge of Project Phlutdroid, was located on the bridge. Upon Gurdun's suggestion that IG-88 should show gratitude due to commissioning his creation, IG-88 expressed his thanks before setting a series of explosives on the shuttle, while his stormtroopers extracted the core and transferred its data to their altered core. As IG-88's matching shuttle departed, the original shuttle underwent a catastrophic explosion.