We had not one, but two droids working as bounty hunters in ESB. Their clients must consider them sentient, or else why pay a droid to do your dirty work?
Why would you need to consider something sentient to make it do your dirty work?
(I’m not necessarily disagreeing, but I thought that was a weird statement.)You don’t pay your computer to do it’s job. I don’t think IG-88 and 4-LOM are in it for the kicks. 😉
Fair point. I guess in the underworld they don’t care who, or what, you are as long as you get the job done.
Also I’m pretty sure all the bounty hunters in ESB was mostly just meant to look cool and intimidating in their few seconds of screen time.