Revered Persecutor

*"Recently, Command has found the Revered Persecutor patrolling along the Vatlerian Ridge, assisting in maintaining PMF defenses."*

*"The Revered Persecutor? I thought it was lost in action cycles ago. Did they actually fix the entire ship back to full operational capacity?"*

*"Maybe we're not dealing with poorly-funded insurgents after all..."*

- Shannon & Co.

The Revered Persecutor is an experimental heavy corvette that was lost to the Republic cycles after the PMF Uprising. It appears in the Main Campaign mission "A Story Lost." Currently, it is exclusively found on Vatleria.

### Lore

In 32 BBY, tensions between the Vatlerian Government and the civilians of Vatleria reached a breaking point, after a mass genocide of civilians erupted from peaceful protesting. In response, the Galactic Republic sends out the Revered Persecutor, an experimental heavy weapons corvette sent on a combat test alongside Republic Peacekeeping Forces, on a peacekeeping mission to suppress and secure the planet from insurgency hands. After cycles past and the corvette never emerging from the planet again, and considering its' military minor value, the ship was listed as lost with its' crew, and the planet forgotten.

In 22 BBY, a little while after the Clone Wars breaks out, and recent Vatleria warbands barricading key trade routes, the 104th is sent in to investigate the Vatlerian Government, its' people and their status. After discovering that the entire planet has been united under the banner of the People's Militia of Freedom, and the decaying corpses of the Peacekeepers, the Revered Persecutor arrives out of hyperspace to engage the 104th in an act of retaliation. With its' shields nearly impenetrable due to outlying shield generators, the 104th is forced to spread out to either reclaim planetary anti-ship cannons, or survive as the pilots rain fire after fire upon the shields, board the ship itself, and commandeer the vessel.

Whatever the outcome, the Revered Persecutor falls under Republic control once again, the People's Militia of Freedom breaks formation, routing en masse, and the Republic regains their experimental corvette. It later appears in Main Campiagn mission "Undying Loyalty" as it appears to protect stranded 104th survivors. It is destroyed during the campaign in an act of desperation by ramming directly into a Confederate Fortress that blocks the escape path.

#### Armament

The Revered Persecutor in "A Story Lost" is armed with a variety of experimental and rare ship weaponry, such as one Persecutor point defense gauntlet. Firing extremely fast and efficiently, they are easily able to grind even the fastest fighters to molded metal chunks. Originally, they were created in hopes of replacing transport and corvette defense gauntlets, but funding fell short after the apparent complete failure on Vatleria.

Its' secondary cannons include three dual Matradon auto-cannons, capable of taking on frigates much larger than itself. Firing three condensed melta-canister shells in bursts, it is unique in that it fires true ammunition instead of bolts, and does lethal damage to any large vessels, as it tears right through hulls and armor plates.

While the Revered Persecutor contains no missile pods or flares, it exchanges such utilities for an increased shield generator. As the Revered Persecutor is meant to fight ships that dwarf its' size, its' shields are top of the line, capable of tanking a couple of heavy artillery shots by capital ships before falling prey to deactivation.

#### Notes

- The ship is in the shape of a Clone Transport, yet is classified as a corvette.

- Two medical droids can be found destroyed in the Revered Persecutor's medical bay, alongside a corpse in a bacta tank. This individual appears later in the campaign.

- In the lower sections of the ship contains four jail cells with prisoners. Freeing the prisoners each gives three additional campaign lines.

- Gunners in the seats will not shoot nor attempt to attack you in any way. Killing them will disable the ship cannons, if they were not already disabled.