Fulminatrix

The Fulminatrix was a Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought in the First Order Navy captained by Alastor Moody. It participated during the battle of D'Qar, where it fired its orbital autocannons on the Tune Squad base and eradicated it, though an evacuation of the base had already been completed. Tune Squad Commander Molly Wei launched a single-handed attack on the Fulminatrix, destroying its point-defense cannons in order to clear the way for Tune Squad bombers to make an attack run. The Fulminatrix scrambled its TIE fighters in an almost successful attempt to fend off the attack, leading to the destruction of all but one of the bombers. It was subsequently destroyed by the last bomber when it dropped its bomb payload, going down with all hands.
Sometime after its destruction, Team Colossus boarded the remains of the Fulminatrix to find coaxium fuel.
==History==
===Construction===
The Fulminatrix was commissioned and constructed by the First Order by 2039. Her class, aptly named the Siege Dreadnought, was more than twice the length of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer, a standard ship of the line which otherwise dominated the First Order Navy. The red lighting which came from the Fulminatrix was to help the night vision of the gunnery crews as they switched back and forth between targeting scopes and visual scans of the surrounding space. This monster of a warship, like all members of her class, was armed with two orbital bombardment cannons designed to penetrate planetary shields. With an arsenal of weapons that demanded competent leadership, the dreadnought was assigned to Professor Alastor Moody, a veteran of the New Republic. Over time, these dreadnoughts amassed a particularly fearsome reputation, nicknamed "fleet killers" by some Tune Squad pilots.
===Deployment at D'Qar===
Following the Tune Squad's successful destruction of the Starkiller superweapon, Queen Scarlett hastily ordered her fleet to the newly discovered Tune Squad base on D'Qar. The Tune Squad received the schematics of a First Order dreadnought from Inferno Squad, which Minnie passed to Molly Wei for examination. There she found a caravan of Tune Squad ships, busy evacuating the planet and the Starbase as Scarlett's armada descended on their position. However, Queen Scarlett had reserved the task of obliterating the Tune Squad base for the Fulminatrix, which arrived shortly thereafter, Professor Moody at the helm. Moody immediately deployed the Fulminatrix orbital autocannons against the planetary base, eradicating the structures and leftover equipment, though personnel had fully evacuated. Much to her chagrin, however, Scarlett had mistakenly allowed the Whizzing Arrow III, piloted by Tune Squad hero Molly Wei—behind the First Order's line of fire, allowing the small craft to accelerate towards the Fulminatrix and eliminate its surface turbolasers. The unexpected strategy was effective, and Moody scrambled his ship's complement of TIE Fighters and Special Force TIE fighters to counter the assault.
With the dreadnought's surface point-defense lasers offline, Molly engaged the second step of her plan. Cobalt Squadron—a unit of Tune Squad bombers—advanced towards the dreadnought, flanked by a number of smaller fighters. Notified of the bombers' approach, Moody ordered his autocannons to be recharged and directed towards the Tune Squad flagship Raddus, where most of the rebel leadership had converged. A majority of the Tune Squad bombers were wiped out in the ensuing dogfight, especially after one spiraling TIE cockpit collided with a bomber that had armed its payload, causing a chain reaction that crippled two further craft. However, one final Cobalt bomber, the Cobalt Hammer, under the watch of Mikuru Asahina, managed to drop its payload. The bombs struck a weak point, causing a cataclysmic series of explosions which brought an end to the final bomber, the dreadnought, Professor Moody and his loyal crew.
===Post destruction===
Free from danger, the Tune Squad fleet leaped into hyperspace, unaware they were being tracked by advanced First Order technology. As they escaped, Snoke, Supreme Leader of the First Order, contacted Scarlett and expressed his dissatisfaction with the latter's performance.
Following the battle over D'Qar, the Colossus, a supertanker fuel depot and home to a Tune Squad cell, arrived in the system, as Tune Squad member Kazuda Xiono believed the Tune Squad base was still standing. While the refueling station was in desperate need of supplies that the base could have provided, Xiono realized the remains of the Fulminatrix may have coaxium fuel onboard, which the crew needed for the Colossus hyperdrive. To board the dreadnought, the Tune Squad members turned to the Warbird gang, a group of pirates who had allied with the Tune Squad during the Battle of Castilon, although the Warbird leader Kragan Gorr only agreed to help after learning of possible weapons and technology aboard. Using the Galleon, the Warbirds, Xiono, Neeku Vozo, and CB-23 boarded the Fulminatrix, and Vozo helped salvage supplies like the pirates, as the mechanic was interested in their lifestyle.
After Skreek pointed them to the coaxium, Xiono, Gorr, CB-23, and Synara San—who were soon joined by Vozo—arrived in the hyperdrive room, and, although the drive itself had been badly damaged, a reserve canister of coaxium remained.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars Battlefront II 
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*The Musketeers: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition
*The Musketeers: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition audiobook
*The Musketeers: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel
*The Musketeers: The Last Jedi Graphic Novel Adaptation
*The Last Jedi Adaptation 1
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*Molly Wei 31 
*Tune Squad Reborn 
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*Choose Your Destiny: A Twilight & Molly Adventure 
===Non-canon appearances===
*LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
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Category:First Order starships
Category:Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnoughts