Turtle Tanker

Turtle Tanker The Turtle Tanker was a starship used during the Clone Wars.It's enlarged side meant that it was mostly utilized for storage which usually comprised of medical equimpment, rations or other varied cargo.The legs of the Turtle Tanker stored the engines as well as feet when landing on hostile terrain.

History
In 21 BBY, on Stobar a Turtle Tanker was commandeered by Savage Opress who was on a journey to reunite himself with his Sith brother Darth Maul. The owner of the Turtle Tanker in question was exporting cargo from the junk planet Lotho Minor, by utilizing the Talisman of Finding given to him by Mother Talzin. Savage speculated that his brother's whereabouts were somehow connected to the planet Lotho Minor after a brief examination of the exported cargo. The pilot and owner of the Turtle Tanker was compelled by Savage to pilot him from Stobar to Lotho Minor in search for his sibling. However, during the arrival and minor sweep of the junk planet, the Talisman of Finding became inactive, and, as it was the only resource capable of tracking Maul, Savage was outraged. During this anarchy, Opress threw the Sakiyan pilot into an escape pod and ejected him onto the planet below, leaving Savage to control the Turtle Tanker. Later, Opress successfully landed the Turtle Tanker and succeeded in verifying his brother's presence and exposing his hideout.

Thereafter, Opress returned with Maul to Dathomir aboard the ship, where Mother Talzin awaited them. Having regained his memories and previous physique after Talzin transformed him with her spells, Maul set out with Savage again to seek vengeance on his old enemy, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, who'd left him for dead on Naboo some time ago, setting course for the planet Raydonia. When the ship landed, Maul and Opress proceeded to take hostages and slaughter several inhabitants of a Raydonian settlement, and draw Kenobi into the fray. When Kenobi arrived, Maul and Opress engaged him, quickly subduing him and bringing him aboard the ship, before taking Kenobi with them into the planet's orbit and proceeding to beat, taunt and torture him there. The unexpected arrival and boarding of Opress' former master and Nightsister, Asajj Ventress, who had the intention of collecting a bounty on Opress, complicated matters for the brothers, however, and resulted in a duel in the cargo hold. Kenobi and Ventress, having teamed up against the duo, managed to flee the scene in the ship's cockpit before Maul and Savage could reach them, leaving the two stranded in the remaining portion of the ship. Fortunately, however, it was equipped with a secondary control panel, allowing Maul and Opress to pilot the Turtle Tanker away from the area.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Wrath of Darth Maul