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Description
The Starstorm One was rather unorthodox looking; in flight, the ship resembled the Aurebesh letter Trill, consisting of one straight structure with two perpendicular wings coming out of the tip that were curved in relation to the main mass of the ship. When the ship landed, the different protrusions folded on top of one another. The cockpit, located at the center of the ship, could hold as many as three humanoids. The entire ship could hold many more&mdash;in 3,996 BBY, it held an entire battalion full of Massassi warriors. Within the cockpit, the ship was controlled by a joystick, with several viewports surrounding the pilot, and a targeting computer located behind the control stick. The Starstorm One could be operated alone, and had significant cargo space, able to hold hoards of Jedi treasures looted from the Great Jedi Library in 3,996 BBY. The ship had three engines located along its main straight mass. The Starstorm One contained an electronic translator, capable of translating even the ancient Sith language. The ship was not particularly hardy, as it was easily destroyed by the primitive Massassi people on Yavin 4.

Dark Lords of the Sith
The Starstorm One was the personal starship of Jedi Knight Exar Kun during the era of the Great Sith War. The apprentice of Krevaaki Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, Kun became interested in the dark side of the Force, and in 3,997 BBY he began a quest to learn the mysteries of the Sith. Kun soon learned of a trove of Sith artifacts discovered in the lair of darksider King Ommin of Onderon, and set out in the Starstorm One to learn about these discoveries. Posing as a Jedi archaeologist, Kun landed the Starstorm One on a landing pad near a derelict starship being converted into a Jedi outpost, and met with Jedi Cay Qel-Droma and Tott Doneeta, who had helped to find the artifacts. However, Jedi Master Arca Jeth discerned that Kun was lying about his occupation as an archaeologist and recognized his fascination with the dark side, and Kun was barred from examining the artifacts. Kun left in a huff, flying the Starstorm One to the Onderonian capital city of Iziz. Kun wanted to learn more about Onderon's dark side past, and soon found two dark side cultists, Nebo and Rask, to fly him to the tomb of former Dark Lord of the Sith Freedon Nadd on the moon Iziz. The three returned to the Starstorm One, and Kun's new associates guided him to the site of the mausoleum. Kun brought the ship down some distance away from the structure, breached its Mandalorian iron walls, and found two scrolls within that contained the location of the Sith homeworld, Korriban. Kun was attacked by Nebo and Rask upon his emergence from the tomb, as the two zealots thought him a tomb desecrator, but Kun swiftly killed them both, and departed the moon in the Starstorm One. Using the ship's electronic translator to examine the scrolls, Kun followed their directions to Korriban.

Kun landed the Starstorm One on a fallen column at the entrance to Korriban's fabled Valley of the Dark Lords, where the ancient Dark Lords of the Sith were buried. Deep within the Valley, Kun was turned to the dark side of the Force by the spirit of Freedon Nadd, and told to prepare the Starstorm One and travel to the moon Yavin 4, a place with a long Sith history, to complete his dark side training. Yavin 4 was the place where ancient Dark Lord Naga Sadow fled with his followers after being attacked by the Republic during the Great Hyperspace War, and although he was long dead, he left behind the primitive descendants of his Massassi followers and the artifacts of his Sith alchemy. After a journey in hyperspace, the Starstorm One reached Yavin 4 and was brought to rest in a clearing in the moon's forests. As Kun left the ship to explore the Yavin 4 wilderness, he was attacked by the Massassi. As Kun tried his best to fend off his attackers, dozens of Massassi swarmed over the Starstorm One, stripping it of brightly-colored parts to use as bodily decorations. The Starstorm One was rendered inoperable as a result, but Kun was able to survive and use his newly-found dark power to establish dominion over the Massassi.

The Sith War
Although the Starstorm One was destroyed by the Massassi upon its landing on Yavin 4, it was eventually repaired, and returned to the service of Exar Kun. In the meantime, Kun had ascended to the title of Dark Lord of the Sith, and taken Jedi Knight Ulic Qel-Droma as his apprentice. Together, and with an army of Massassi and Mandalorian warriors that had pledged service to their cause, they began a war against the Republic and the Jedi Knights. In 3,996 BBY, Kun flew the Starstorm One from Yavin 4 to the Jedi world of Ossus, hoping to recruit other Jedi to his budding Sith movement. Not revealing his status as a Sith Lord, he lured several Knights to his cause by promising to teach them powerful Force techniques forbidden to them by their Masters. Kun brought the Jedi to Yavin 4 on the Starstorm One, intending to turn them to the dark side. The Jedi were successfully seduced to the dark side using the spirits contained inside an ancient Sith holocron, which possessed the wayward Knights. Kun gave the new Sith apprentices a mission to kill their Jedi Masters, sending them on their way; Kun departed Yavin 4 with a different objective, leaving the Starstorm One behind on the moon. According to his lieutenant Mandalore the Indomitable, Ulic Qel-Droma had been taken as a prisoner of war after an attack on the Republic capital of Coruscant, and was to be put on trial for treason against the Galactic Republic.

Later in the war, the Starstorm One was called into action yet again. During a battle between the Sith and the Republic at Kemplex IX, the use of Sith magic caused a supernova in the Cron Cluster star group. The shock wave headed directly toward Ossus, which contained countless Jedi artifacts and the greatest repository of Jedi knowledge in the galaxy, the Great Jedi Library. Seeing their chance to raid the planet of its treasures, Kun set out for Ossus in the Starstorm One, with Qel-Droma&mdash;who had been freed from Republic captivity by Kun and a large Mandalorian/Massassi strike force&mdash;accompanying him in his own ship. They arrived during a large-scale evacuation of the planet, as thousands tried to flee the planet while the Jedi below attempted to save as much precious knowledge as they could. Kun and Qel-Droma were flanked by a large Mandalorian assault force, who created havoc while the two Sith Lords sneaked down to the planet's surface and began their treasure hunt. Kun landed the Starstorm One in a busy Ossus square, and he and the Massassi guards he brought with him searched the Great Jedi Library, taking whatever they could find and loading the Starstorm One with stolen artifacts. His job done, Kun departed the dying planet in the Starstorm One, returning to Yavin 4 to study his new possessions. Kun was followed to Yavin 4 by a large group of Jedi, and knowing he could not defeat the large number of assembled Knights, Kun decided to use ancient Sith magic to shed his mortal body and become a Force spirit. However, although he succeeded in leaving his body behind, he was trapped inside his temple for thousands of years.

Commanders and crew
The Starstorm One was the personal starship of Exar Kun, who used it during his quest to discover the mysteries of the Sith and also during the Great Sith War. He usually flew the ship alone, but not always; Nebo and Rask were used aboard the ship as guides during Kun's search for Freedon Nadd's temple. Although the Starstorm One was destroyed during Kun's tenure as the ship's owner, by the Massassi on Yavin 4, he eventually had it repaired.

Behind the scenes
The Starstorm One first appeared in Dark Lords of the Sith, a story arc of the Tales of the Jedi comic book series, written by Tom Veitch and Kevin J. Anderson and released from late 1994 to early 1995. The Starstorm One appeared in the second, third, and fourth issues, and was also mentioned in the fifth. The ship also appeared in the second and fifth issues of Dark Lords of the Sith sequel arc, The Sith War. During its appearances in Tales of the Jedi, the Starstorm One was illustrated by two different pencillers, Christian Gossett  and Dario Carrasco, Jr.  The ship also garnered entries in the Star Wars Encyclopedia, the third edition of A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, and in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith 2: The Quest for the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith 3: Descent to the Dark Side
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith 4: Death of a Dark Jedi
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith 5: Sith Secrets
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith audio adaptation
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War 2: The Battle of Coruscant
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War 5: Brother Against Brother