Salaban's Hope

The Salaban's Hope was a Kazellis-class light freighter owned by the Storm-hair warlord Nuso Esva. It shared its name with the Arkanian Salaban, and was produced by the Kazellis Corporation years before 0 ABY. That year, Esva and his pilot, "Sorro," used the light freighter to rendezvous with the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Chimaera. Several starships attacked the Salaban's Hope; however, the Chimaera and the freighter used their combined firepower to destroy all but two of the attackers, which escaped.
The freighter docked with the Imperial Star Destroyer before visiting an unknown world, where Esva met with his commanders, and the Inner Rim planet Wroona. After returning to the Chimaera, Esva had the Star Destroyer travel to the Outer Rim Territories' Poln system, where his Eastern Fleet engaged the Imperial forces present. While the Imperial Death Squadron fleet destroyed his fleet, the warlord fled aboard the Salaban's Hope.
==Description==
A Kazellis-class light freighter, the Salaban's Hope measured at twenty-eight meters and was equipped with sublight drives and a hyperdrive. An Imperial II-class Star Destroyer'sHeir to the Empire Sourcebook full-power Q7 tractor beam could significantly damage the light freighter's hull. The Salaban's Hope was equipped with deflector shields and armed with laser cannons. The freighter possessed a docking hatch.
==History==
===Raiders and visits===
Produced by the Kazellis Corporation years before 0 ABY, the Salaban's Hope was a freighter that shared its name with the Arkanian Salaban. The Storm-hair warlord Nuso Esva, who ruled a realm, owned the freighter. In 0 ABY,The events of Choices of One take place in 0 ABY according to The Essential Reader's Companion. the warlord and his Human pilot, "Sorro," used the Salaban's Hope to rendezvous with the Galactic Empire's Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Chimaera. Upon arriving at the warship's location, the light freighter was attacked by six starships of Esva's realm. Assuming the pseudonym of Imperial Court member Lord Odo, the warlord had the Chimaera captain, Calo Drusan, pull the two endmost attackers toward his Star Destroyer while the Salaban's Hope destroyed them and some of the others.
While most of the raiders were destroyed and two escaped, Sorro landed Esva's light freighter in the Chimaera hangar. After Esva donned a mask and clothing to conceal his identity and his pilot introduced themselves to Imperial Commander Gilad Pellaeon, they traveled to their quarters near the Salaban's Hope and the hangar. Shortly afterward, Esva brought the Salaban's Hope to an unknown world, where he met with his commanders, and the Inner Rim — Based on corresponding data for Wroona system planet Wroona, where he acquired thermal detonators and equipment that he planned to use to sabotage the Chimaera. After returning to the Star Destroyer, he requested quarters closer to the warship's bridge, as he no longer needed quick access to his Kazellis.
===Nuso Esva's escape===
Shortly afterward, the Chimaera traveled to the Outer Rim Territories' Poln system alongside Imperial Senior Captain Thrawn's Task Force Admonitor—which was led by the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer"Side Trip" Admonitor—and the senior captain's DeepWater-class light freighter Lost Reef. Esva destroyed the Chimaera engines with his thermal detonators and set the vessel on a collision course with a nearby Golan I space station, summoning his Eastern Fleet and commanding it to destroy the Admonitor and the Chimaera. Esva left the sabotaged Star Destroyer aboard the Salaban's Hope.
Jorj Car'das, the Lost Reef pilot, watched as Esva escaped and contemplated the possibility of destroying the warlord's freighter and killing the Storm-hair; however, under Thrawn's directive, Car'das focused on using the Lost Reef tractor beam to move the Chimaera away from its collision course. After the Deepwater freighter moved the Imperial warship away from its collision course, the Imperial Death Squadron fleet arrived, destroying the Eastern Fleet while Esva fled the battle aboard the Salaban's Hope.
==Owners and operators==
Warlord Nuso Esva, the owner of the Salaban's Hope, tasked a Human known as Sorro with piloting the Kazellis.
==Behind the scenes==
The Salaban's Hope appeared in Timothy Zahn's 2011 novel Choices of One.
==Appearances==
*Choices of One 
==Notes and references==
Category:Kazellis-class light freighters
Category:Starships of Nuso Esva's realm