Crimson Jack's battlecruiser

This vessel was an Imperial battlecruiser that was damaged during a battle with the Rebel Alliance, and left adrift.

After the battle, it was discovered by the space pirate Crimson Jack and his gang, who proceeded to kill the remaining crew members and use the vessel as their own base of operations. They repaired and modified the ship with backing from Jabba the Hutt.

They captured the Millennium Falcon with a tractor beam, and were lured to the planet Drexel II where Han Solo claimed a secret Rebel treasury would be found.



This venture turned out to be a trap and a failure for Crimson Jack, as his ship was permanently damaged when his second-in-command, Jolli, betrayed him and rammed the ship's command tower with her Y-wing starfighter.

The hulk would be left to drift in orbit of Drexel II, where it found by Jabba's agents some time later. They recovered data from the ship's computer that told about Solo's involvement in it's destruction. Jabba furiously reposted the bounty on Solo that had been revoked some time earlier.

The ship was driven by four main engines and a possible fifth, though this center engine appeared to be covered by armor later on in the story, and might have functioned only as an auxiliary engine for emergencies. The hull was sleeker and more rounded then Imperial-class destroyers, and the main body was depicted as much more flat, with a protruding bulb towards the dorsal front of the ship.

Behind the Scenes
Since this vessel was left to drift at the end of the Drexel II-storyline, this might have been the derelict Star Battlecruiser mentioned as being picked apart for generator-parts by the Rebel Alliance, which later used these components to power Echo Base. No official connection between these ships have ever been made.

Appearances

 * Marvel Star Wars 11: Star Search
 * Marvel Star Wars 12: Doomworld
 * Marvel Star Wars 13: Day of the Dragon Lords
 * Marvel Star Wars 14: The Sound of Armageddon
 * Marvel Star Wars 15: Star Duel
 * Marvel Star Wars 37: In Mortal Combat