Slave I

***Slave I***, also spelled ***Slave One***, was a modified prototype Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft used by famed bounty hunters Jango Fett and his cloned "son", Boba Fett. It was greatly modified with advanced weapons systems by both Fetts during their respective use. Originating from Oovo IV, the ship was stolen by Jango Fett, replacing his previous ship, *Jaster's Legacy*. After Jango's death on Geonosis in 22 BBY, the ship was inherited by Boba Fett and used on several missions just prior to the Fall of the Republic and during the reign of the Galactic Empire.

The ship in its original form was produced by a subsidiary company of Kuat Drive Yards, based on the planet Kuat.

## Characteristics

Like all *Firespray*s, *Slave I* sat flat on its bottom surface when idle, although during flight the ship rotated 90 degrees to maneuver vertically. Boba later added a unique stabilization system which always kept the cockpit oriented "up".

*Slave I* was a well-armed starship, and to keep it from becoming obsolete, it was endlessly modified. It was stolen near the time of the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic and the end of Jango's life. While under Jango Fett's ownership, its weaponry included two heavy twin blaster cannons, as well as two rapid firing laser cannons. Rounding out the ship's armament were two projectile launchers, each holding a magazine of three homing missiles or various other payloads, and a naval minelayer equipped with seismic charges.

*Slave I* also possessed special dummy proton torpedoes mounted with homing beacons and S-thread trackers. By tagging a ship with one of these beacons, Fett could then utilize his contraband HoloNet transceiver to track ships through hyperspace. Most of these weapons were hidden beneath the hull; the armor plating would slide away during the ship's attacks. The ship was also outfitted with a sensor array that could detect minute changes in the ship's mass, which could be used to find homing beacons.

When his son, Boba Fett, took on the ship, he made his own modifications, so the *Slave I* was filled with heavy-duty shield generators, several new weapons systems, and various types of auxiliary sensor systems. Additionally, a secret military sensor, which could be used for jamming and masking, allowed the *Slave I* to disappear from the majority of scanning systems. The craft was equipped with overwhelming weaponry that could take out other heavily armed ships. However, with the exception of the twin blaster cannons, the weapons systems remained hidden to make the ship appear as if it was lightly armed.

Jango added a spartan crew quarters since the original *Firespray* was suited for short-term patrols. On top of all this, Jango devoted two-thirds of the entire ship's interior to the powerful upgraded Kuat drive engines and power generators, giving *Slave I* the sublight speed of an Alliance BTL Y-wing starfighter — a remarkable feat for a ship of *Slave I*'s size. There was a combination airlock and docking ring behind the cockpit, although this was covered by a sensor dish at various points in the vessel's history.

## History

### In the service of Jango Fett

Jango Fett originally stole *Slave I* from Oovo IV, a prison moon that *Firespray* attack craft were used to guard. outfitting the craft with a number of weapons, including laser cannons, projectile launchers, and seismic charges. While under Jango's ownership, the ship was used to travel to Ord Mantell and in a dogfight over Geonosis against a Jedi starfighter piloted by Obi-Wan Kenobi.

After Jango's death during the First Battle of Geonosis, the craft came into the possession of his son, Boba, who used it throughout his failed quest to kill the Jedi Master who had beheaded his father, Mace Windu. Boba had the ship when he teamed up with Aurra Sing, Bossk and Castas, to avenge Jango's death and kill Mace Windu. When the attempt failed, Boba used *Slave I* to transport hostages CC-6454, Admiral Shoan Kilian and a clone naval officer to Florrum to lure Windu out. At Florrum, Padawan Ahsoka Tano heavily damaged *Slave I* with her lightsaber in attempt to rescue the hostages and to prevent Aurra Sing from flying away. Aurra lost her control over *Slave I* and crash landed the ship. In the resulting explosion, she was considered dead and *Slave I* was counted as destroyed during that time, and young Boba was captured by Jedi Master Plo Koon, and taken to the court on Coruscant, along with Bossk.

The Weequay pirate Hondo Ohnaka, after pulling the unconscious Aurra from the wreckage and realizing the uniqueness of the ship, took the crashed ship after she damaged his pirate base. He rebuilt the *Slave I* and painted it green. Eventually, Fett reacquired the ship near the end of the Clone Wars.

### Boba Fett's deadly craft

The ship became well-known to the galaxy's fugitives, who recognized it as the ship owned by one of the galaxy's deadliest bounty hunters.

Fett would continue to use the ship to hunt various bounties during the Imperial Era.

Sometime after Boba Fett took over *Slave I*, he took it to Kuat Drive Yards to have it re-modified to fit his profession more suitably. The two rapid fire laser cannons were replaced with an ion cannon and a concussion missile launcher. A miniature tractor beam projector was added to assist in capturing bounties. A stolen sensor masking and jamming array made the ship invisible to sensors, allowing Fett to enter any planet, even Imperial Center, without hassle. He topped the armament off by changing the main ordnance of the projectile launchers to proton torpedoes. Fett routinely stored a swoop aboard to make himself more mobile once on-world, and devoted a piece of the living area to holding cells.

During the Galactic Civil War in 3 ABY, Boba flew *Slave I* to rendezvous with the Imperial fleet, where Darth Vader tasked Boba and a group of bounty hunters to capture Han Solo. Boba tracked Solo and his ship, the *Millennium Falcon*, to Cloud City. After Solo's capture, Boba transported the carbon-frozen rebel into Jabba the Hutt's custody at his palace on Tatooine. During Fett's journey, however, he became sidetracked upon learning about the return of Nakano Lash, using the *Slave I* during his search for his former ally. After returning to his mission to bring Solo to Jabba, certain that Lash would die, Fett eventually took the *Slave I* to the "smuggler's moon" of Nar Shaddaa, taking Solo to Doc Ragon to ensure he would survive his carbonite imprisonment. Low on credits, Fett agreed to kill pit warrior Wyrmen Lictorin exchange for the work, but, while Fett was away, Ragon was killed and Solo was taken by agents of Crimson Dawn.

After the new head of the organization, Qi'ra, sent a message showing Solo to Jabba, the Hutt believed Fett had double crossed him and put a bounty on Fett. On Nar Shaddaa, the *Slave I* was the site of trap launched by bounty hunters Zuckuss and 4-LOM, yet Fett defeated them both. Hacking into 4-LOM's head, Fett used the *Slave I* to return to Tatooine, where he learned Jabba was offworld and that Crimson Dawn had returned. Fett had a Carbon-freezing chamber installed on the ship in case Solo thawed again and used it against IG-88B. After defeating the assassin droid, Fett finally sold Solo to Jabba and received his payment.

    After his escape from the Sarlacc, Boba stole the ALC-8 from Ephant Mon, using it during his hunt for Jar Jar Binks. Soon enough, Fett would recover *Slave I* during the hunt, but abandoned it on Umbara. The ship was discovered by a rebel scout patrol and subsequently impounded on Grakouine. *Slave I* remained in the impound lot for several days until it was recovered by Boba, who used a Y-TIE purchased from Garri on Jakku to get to Grakouine as he was deprived of a ship. He continued to use *Slave I* during the New Republic Era, although a portion of the galaxy thought he was just a half-digested morsel in the bowels of the Sarlacc. *Slave I* served him well on missions to planets like Coruscant and Scarif. On a mission to Eadu, however, the ship crash-landed on the surface due to a raging storm going on. As a result, Boba briefly used an old Zeta-class cargo shuttle to finish off his current job. However, after his objective was completed, Boba would return to the planet to repair *Slave I* using parts from the crashed UT-60D U-wing starfighter/support craft LMTR-20 nearby. After this, he continued using *Slave I*.

In 9 ABY, Fett used *Slave I* to return to Tatooine once more. It was parked in Docking Bay 94, though it would be then stolen by unknown thieves and stored away in Jabba's Palace garage; Fett himself would later find out about this. Eventually, Fett and his new partner Fennec Shand infiltrated the palace and retrieved *Slave I*. Fett then used the ship to track down and destroy the Kintan Striders, who had appeared to have slaughtered the Tusken Raider tribe he stayed with since his third escape from the sarlacc. From there, Fett flew to the Pit of Carkoon with the hopes of finding his lost armor. As the *Slave I* descended into the pit, the sarlacc attacked them, latching onto the craft with its tentacles. Shand dropped a seismic charge into the sarlacc's maw, killing the creature and freeing the ship. Fett later landed *Slave I* back in Docking Bay 94.
Fett and Shand later flew *Slave I* to the planet Tython, where they had tracked the Mandalorian Din Djarin and his Force-sensitive foundling, Grogu. After Grogu was kidnapped by dark troopers belonging to Moff Gideon, Fett flew his ship into Tython's upper atmosphere to identify Gideon's light cruiser. With Djarin's own ship destroyed and Fett now in Djarin's debt to help protect Grogu, Fett agreed to fly Djarin to Nevarro aboard *Slave I* as part of his plan to retrieve the child.

Departing from Nevarro, Fett took Djarin and Cara Dune to the Karthon Chop Fields to retrieve Migs Mayfeld. He then flew the party to Morak, where Djarin and Mayfeld infiltrated an Imperial rhydonium refinery and Djarin accessed a computer terminal giving him the coordinates to Gideon's vessel. After the two men finished the mission, Fett rescued them from the roof of the refinery. As *Slave I* was flying away from the scene, it was targeted by two TIE fighters. Fett used a seismic charge to destroy the fighters.

Following the Morak mission, *Slave I* was used to attack Imperial Shuttle 2743 carrying Dr. Pershing, a scientist working for Gideon. *Slave I* then transported Djarin to an unknown planet to recruit Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves in the rescue of Grogu. After tracking down Gideon's cruiser and attacking the ship, Fett jumped into hyperspace per the group's plan. Sometime after the mission's success, Fett collected Shand and landed *Slave I* on Tatooine. There, the two invaded Jabba the Hutt's former palace, killed Bib Fortuna, and took over the remnants of Jabba's criminal empire.

Fett had *Slave I* stored in the palace's hangar during his gang war with the Pyke Syndicate and later the Second Union, though on one occasion during the conflict with the Second Union he used the ship to eradicate a Union military convoy that was crossing the Dune Sea.

## Appearances

* Beyond the Dune Sea (First appearance)
* Wait for It
* The Enormous Profit
* Remastered
* The Quest for the Crystal Skull
* Counterattack
* A Job Worth Payment
* Coruscant Nights I
* Coruscant Nights II
* Coruscant Nights III
* Dark Force Rising
* Raiders of the Lost Darth
* Pursuit
* The Sacred Water of Rugosa
* Crisis on Malastare
* Shards of the Past
* Shadows of the Empire
* Friends and Enemies
* Orders
* Legacy
* Hard Merchandise
* The Final Stand
* A Practical Man
* Agent of Doom
* Ochi of Bestoon
* Tales from Vader's Castle, Part I
* Tales from Vader's Castle, Part II
* An Apology
* Bounty
* Into the Crossfire
* Into the Great Unknown
* Twin Engines of Destruction
* Fallout
* Bounty on Bar-Kooda
* A New Threat
* The Last One Standing
* Twas the Night Before Life Day
* *A Third Time* (vision to Boba Fett)
* Beyond the Dune Sea II
* The Mandalorian (Mentioned only)
* *Boba and Fennec*
* Gambit on Geonosis
* Scary Starship
* From the Desert Comes a Stranger
* Invaders on Their Land
* *From a Certain Point of View* (Mentioned only)