Broken 'Spanner

The Broken 'Spanner was a modified TL-1800 freighter that was owned for over three decades by the smuggler Tiv Pocarno. "Poke" found the ship broken-down and badly maintained, and under his ownership it was ineptly upgraded and modified at great expense by outlaw techs. The Broken 'Spanner eventually came into the possession of the crimelord, Torel Vorne, after "Poke" defaulted on his debt to Vorne and was killed. Vorne then had the ship repaired.

Modifications
The Broken 'Spanner was illegally modified to drastically increase the ship’s sub-light speed. A number of weapons were also added and the shield generators were replaced with a package from an Imperial gunboat. The ship also had a number of smuggling compartments installed. The ad-hoc nature of these modifications increased the ship's maintenance requirement; with the navigation systems in particular being rendered unreliable.