Lictor-class dungeon ship

Lictor-class dungeon ship "We're in an Imperial dungeon ship&hellip; the kind they used to transport Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars&hellip; and it looks like we've reached our destination!"

- Luke Skywalker to R2-D2

The Lictor-class dungeon ship, also known as an Imperial dungeon ship, was a versatile and mobile prison usually customized to the users preference in use.

Characteristics


The versions used by the Galactic Empire were equipped with universal energy cages, holding cells, drop bays, and sparring chambers where Dark Side Adepts could battle captive Jedi. They were designed to intimidate, and gained a reputation for never returning a captive who entered them. Guard droids were used to help prevent Jedi escapes.

In order to ensure that prisoners couldn't revolt and commandeer a vessel, their navicomps only were able to hold two sets of coordinates (the home base and the destination), and so could only go to those locations.

In addition to the MandalMotors design, there was also the scaled down Kiltirin-class, manufactured by Rendili StarDrive.

History
It was originally constructed by MandalMotors for use by the Mandalorians during the Mandalorian Wars, and may have been the basis for Mandalorian Dreadnaughts.



Thousands of years later, while in service of the Galactic Empire, the class was used to transport normal and Force-sensitive prisoners, such as captured Jedi Knights during the height of the Great Jedi Purge following the Clone Wars.

Grand Admiral Danetta Pitta used the dungeon ships Angrix, Apocahk, and Azgoghk to collect alien civilizations for use as slaves.

During the aftermath of the Imperial Civil War in 10 ABY, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and R2-D2 were transported on an Imperial dungeon ship to Byss, the secret throne world of the "reborn" Emperor Palpatine. By that time, a dungeon ship could be purchased for 7.8 million credits.

They were still used during the Yuuzhan Vong War by the Mandalorian Protectors.

Behind the scenes

 * Lictors were officers in Ancient Rome who guarded ranking members of the Roman Senate.


 * Star Wars Republic: The Dreadnaughts of Rendili indicates that the dungeon ships were created from Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers captured during the Battle of Rendili. However, this would contradict both earlier and later sources, and so is presumably not accurate.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 8: Flashpoint, Part 2
 * Star Wars Republic 71: The Dreadnaughts of Rendili, Part 3
 * Droid Trouble
 * Boba Fett: Agent of Doom
 * Dark Empire 1: The Destiny of a Jedi
 * Dark Empire 2: Devastator of Worlds