Marauder Starjacker The Marauder Starjacker was a modified E - 2 asteroid mining vehicle captained by pirate Finhead Stonebone in the years leading up to the Great Sith War . Originally an ordinary mining ship , the " Starjacker " and its sister ship , the " Stenness Raider " , were captured some time before 3999 BBY by Stonebone ' s pirate gang and modified extensively to make them more suitable for ore raiding . In 3999 BBY the " Marauder Starjacker " was involved in an attempted attack on an ore hauler commanded by the Nessie captain Gruna . The " Marauder Starjacker " destroyed the hauler ' s defenses and began to siphon the ship ' s valuable mutonium ore , only to be captured by the " Enforcer One " , the dreadnaught flagship of local crime lord Bogga the Hutt , who was protecting the ore hauler . The captured pirates were brought before Bogga on Vo Dasha , where Bogga enlisted Stonebone to go to the desolate planet of Ambria in order to retrieve a lost shipment of Adegan crystal s from Bogga ' s sworn enemy , Jedi Master Thon . Stonebone , along with a gang of pirates and Hutt enforcers , went to Ambria in the " Marauder Starjacker " ; however , they were defeated by Thon and his Jedi trainee , Nomi Sunrider . Description . The " Marauder Starjacker " was an E - 2 asteroid mining vehicle manufactured by Byblos Drive Yards . The ship had mechanical pincers that could grapple asteroids and plasma drill s that could blow them into smaller chunks , alongside suction tubes that could suck up what remained , which made it an excellent mining vessel . However , as the ship was under the ownership of the pirate Finhead Stonebone , the " Starjacker " was used for criminal purposes , particularly siphoning ore from ore - hauling ships . To this end , the pincers were used to grab and immobilize targets , the drills used to rip open the hull , and the tubes to suck out the ore . The " Marauder Starjacker " measured out to be 110 meters long , and could carry 200 tons of cargo . To increase his chance of success in his raids , Stonebone replaced the " Starjacker " normal engines with Corellia StarDrive microthruster s . These were not the only modifications that Stonebone made to the ship ; after taking possession of the " Starjacker " , his engineers moved the plasma drills to the front of the ship to use as weapons , with a trio of power generators feeding each drill . Also , the prismatic drill crystals were modified to give the weapons a longer range . Although the drills lacked the range of laser cannons , they were more than powerful enough to punch through the hulls of Ithullian ore hauler s . Stonebone made several other modifications to the layout of the ship as well . His engineers reinforced the tips of the " Starjacker " digging claws with monomolecular slicer s , making the claws capable of slicing through thick armor plating . He also removed the ship ' s filtering system , as the ship would only be sucking in pure ore — this action also increased the ship ' s cargo space by a third . Another modification made to the " Marauder Starjacker " was the removal of the ship ' s mining stations , allowing for enough space to contain more than one hundred raiders for boarding missions . Two maneuvering thrusters were located on top of the ship near the engines at the rear . The bridge was directly at the front of the " Starjacker " , with a rectangular - shaped viewport . History . The " Marauder Starjacker " and her sister ship , the " Stenness Raider " , began service as ordinary E - 2 mining vessels . When Captain Finhead Stonebone set out to begin raiding Ithullian ore haulers , made from the carapaces of colossus wasp s , he knew that E - 2s could be useful , so he decided to obtain some to help with his ore - raiding endeavor . Stonebone subsequently attacked a mining operation near the Varl system and stole both the " Marauder Starjacker " and the " Stenness Raider " . His engineers then modified them extensively to make them more suitable for ore raiding . Both E - 2s were then used in raids on the ore haulers . In 3999 BBY , the " Marauder Starjacker " was involved in an attempted attack on one particular Ithullian ore hauler , commanded by the Nessie captain Gruna . Although the vessel was protected by local crime lord Bogga the Hutt , the " Starjacker " had no problem reaching the hauler and attaching to its hull . One of Bogga ' s enforcers , Dreebo , attacked the " Marauder Starjacker " in his light tactical fighter , but a well - placed shot by Stonebone ' s gunner C ' borp destroyed the starfighter . Finding the ore hauler defenseless , the " Marauder Starjacker " went to work , puncturing the ship ' s hull . The " Starjacker " suction tubes were deployed to suck up the valuable mutonium ore , while a group of boarding troops , including Stonebone and his first mate Roko , descended down into the gutted ore hauler to take possession of what remained . However , their success was short - lived ; Bogga ' s flagship , the dreadnaught " Enforcer One " , appeared and caught both the " Marauder Starjacker " and the " Stenness Raider " in its tractor beam . The ships were brought into the " Enforcer One " hangar , where Bogga ' s enforcer Grimorg took the pirates prisoner . The pirates were brought to Bogga ' s estate on the moon of Vo Dasha , where Bogga brought the marauders before him . Bogga enlisted the pirates to travel to the desolate planet of Ambria to retrieve a lost shipment of Adegan crystal s from Bogga ' s sworn enemy , Jedi Master Thon . Bogga sent a contingent of his own men to accompany Stonebone and the pirates , and the group took the " Marauder Starjacker " and the " Stenness Raider " to the desolate planet of Ambria , where Thon waited . The pirate and enforcer gang parked the ships in low orbit , and took sail barges onto the planet ' s surface . However , in a confrontation with Thon and his Jedi trainee Nomi Sunrider , the group was decimated and defeated , and the few survivors forced to flee . Commanders and crew . The captain of the " Marauder Starjacker " was the pirate Finhead Stonebone . Stonebone ordered the many modifications that were performed on the " Starjacker " in order to make it a more suitable raiding ship . Stonebone was assisted on the " Marauder Starjacker " by his first mate and good friend Roko , who often joined the boarding team which descended into targeted ships . The " Marauder Starjacker " had a crew of fourteen , with four gunners : one of these was C ' borp , Stonebone ' s chief gunner . The " Marauder Starjacker " also maintained a team of more than 100 raiders reserved for boarding missions . Behind the scenes . The " Marauder Starjacker " first appeared in " " , the second story arc of the " " comic book series , written by Tom Veitch and released over late 1993 – early 1994 . The " Starjacker " appeared in both the and issues of the arc . In these appearances the " Marauder Starjacker " was illustrated by David Roach . Further information on the " Marauder Starjacker " was given in Bill Smith ' s 1996 reference book " The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels " and later that same year in George R . Strayton ' s " Tales of the Jedi Companion " . The ship was also mentioned in an article in " Star Wars Insider 26 " , and garnered entries in the " Star Wars Encyclopedia " , the third edition of " A Guide to the Star Wars Universe " , and " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " .