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Vote Snaplaunce was a TIE/sh shuttle owned by Snaplaunce, the Ithorian mayor of Hweg Shul on the planet Nam Chorios. The shuttle was originally part of a collection of restored vehicles owned by a retired mechanic in the Imperial fleet who settled on Nam Chorios around 29 ABY, after which the shuttle was purchased by the Ithorian and renamed eponymously, a point expressed in red lettering over a vivid yellow paint job. Vote Snaplaunce was modified while in possession of its namesake, during which time it was converted from military to civilian use. Snaplaunce used the shuttle as a traveling campaign advertisement, and had a tendency to loan it to prominent visitors to his city.

In 44 ABY, Snaplaunce loaned the shuttle to visiting Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker and his traveling companions. Master Skywalker, his son Ben Skywalker, and their erstwhile Sith ally Vestara Khai had made their way to Nam Chorios in pursuit of a dangerous entity known as Abeloth. Vote Snaplaunce then fell victim to sabotage, unbeknownst to its owner, and the shuttle was soon afterward attacked by Abeloth's allies in pursuit of the Jedi. A series of calculated malfunctions combined with the ship's disarmament for civilian usage resulted in its near destruction, and forced its occupants to reconstruct the crashed shuttle into a makeshift landspeeder to complete that leg of their quest, and then to abandon Vote Snaplaunce in the desert outside Hweg Shul.