Marauder-class corvette

The Marauder-class corvette was a 195-meter-long light escort ship introduced prior to the Clone Wars.
== Characteristics ==
Marauder-class corvettes were equipped with eight dual turbolaser turrets, four concussion missile launchers, and a tractor beam projector, along with with a number of additional weapon hardpoints. They had capacity for 80 troops for use in boarding actions or planetary landings.
== History ==
Built by the profitable Sienar Technologies division of Republic Sienar Systems, a precursor to Sienar Fleet Systems, the Marauder-class was intended for use as a patrol and escort ship by the Galactic Republic. When the Republic declined to purchase them, mainly due to the Republic's inefficient bureaucracy and not any problems with the ship itself, Sienar managed to sell some to other small governments and organizations such as the Kathol Republic. Orders were slow, and the Marauder was considered one of Sienar's rare failures, so RSS finally sold production rights to the Corporate Sector Authority to be produced and used in the Corporate Sector.
The ship was used extensively by the forces of the Corporate Sector Authority, where they could often be found in use as escorts for larger capital ships in the Corporate Sector Authority Picket Fleet, or deployed for law enforcement or anti-piracy actions. They eventually came into use by private individuals and a few outlaw groups.
Marauder-class corvettes remained in use in the Corporate Sector through at least 1019 ARR, and the Diamalan Commerce Ministry purchased twelve of the ships approximately three months prior to the Caamas Document crisis. Pirate captain Zothip tried to buy the same ships, but was outbid by the Diamala. Around the same time, the crime lord Rei'Kas lost three Marauders against the Aing-Tii at Exocron. Some groups were known to employ Marauders as late as the Yuuzhan Vong War.