Tavya-class armored picket

The Tavya-class Armored Picket was a scouting capital ship class used by the Galacitc Republic during the Clone Wars.

As the Clone Wars intensified, the Confederacy of Independent Systems' fleet began a series of successful surprise attacks against Republic convoys at hyperspace key exit points using intelligence secretly supplied by Palpatine as Darth Sidious. To prevent these attacks, Hoersch-Kessel Drive developed the Tavya-class to scout locations and scan for potential threats to important diplomatic vessels or military convoys.

The ships were relatively small and armed with a turret-mounted laser cannon and missile launcher, although the stock model was often upgraded with a proton torpedo launcher on the ventral fuselage for extra firepower.

Appearances

 * Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

==Sources
 * Stewart, Sean. Yoda: Dark Rendezvous. Del Rey Books: 2004.