Slave I/Legends

Slave I "There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."

- Boba Fett

Slave I was a modified prototype Firespray-class patrol/attack ship used by famed bounty hunters Jango Fett and his cloned "son", Boba Fett.

Acquisition
"Has a ruthless ring to it. Fits your personality."

- Rozatta

Originally, Slave I was a police vehicle from the asteroid prison Oovo IV. There were only six of the model in the entire Galaxy, all on Oovo IV.

While on the trail for the Dark Jedi and Bando Gora leader, Komari Vosa, Jango Fett's trail led him to capture Bendix Fust for the crime lord Sebolto. After tracking Bendix Fust to Oovo IV, and as he was about to capture him, another bounty hunter had beat him to Fust and began a prison riot. After fighting his way through armed guards and prisoners, Jango had made it back to his ship, Jaster's Legacy. Unfortunately, the rival bounty hunter had attempted to slice into the old ship. After helping Zam Wesell defeat a hoard of guards, a Firespray-Class starship fired upon Jango's ship, destroying it.

Acting on a tip from a prisoner, Jango made his way into the asteroid prison hangar bays and stole a Firespray-class vessel along with the rival bounty hunter, who was known as Zam Wesell. During their escape, Jango launched several missiles into the hangar bay and destroyed the other vessels to halt any chance of being pursued, making his the only one of its type in existence. Sometime later, Jango would name his new ship, Slave I. It was not until Kuat Systems Engineering reintroduced the line several decades later that other ships of the kind would be seen.

Characteristics


Like all Firesprays, Slave I sat flat on its bottom surface when idle, although during flight the ship rotated 90 degrees to maneuver vertically. Boba later added a unique stabilization system which always kept the cockpit oriented "up".

Slave I was a well-armed starship, and to keep it from becoming obsolete, it was endlessly modified. It was stolen during the Vosa bounty, near the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic and the end of Jango's life. While under Jango Fett's ownership, its weaponry included two heavy twin blaster cannons, as well as two rapid firing laser cannons. Rounding out the ship's armament were two projectile launchers, each holding a magazine of three homing missiles or various other payloads, and a naval minelayer equipped with seismic charges.

Slave I also possessed special dummy proton torpedoes mounted with homing beacons and S-thread trackers. By tagging a ship with one of these beacons, Fett could then utilize his contraband HoloNet transceiver to track ships through hyperspace. Most of these weapons were hidden beneath the hull; the armor plating would slide away during the ship's attacks.

Jango added a spartan crew quarters since the original Firespray was suited for short-term patrols. On top of all this, Jango devoted two-thirds of the entire ship's interior to the powerful upgraded Kuat drive engines and power generators, giving Slave I the sublight speed of an Alliance Y-wing starfighter&mdash;a remarkable feat for a ship of Slave I's size.

Boba's Slave I
"My ship was built for speed, not luxury accommodations."

- Boba Fett



After Jango's death in the Battle of Geonosis, Boba took the ship. Slave I was stolen in 22 BBY by Gjon on Bogg 2, but Boba and a thief named Aia took it back. When the boy was captured by Aurra Sing, Dooku gave her the ship as a payment, but Boba eventually recovered it. Later, it was damaged in a dogfight with Asajj Ventress, and was saved from destruction only by the intervention of Anakin Skywalker, who also repaired the ship. At some point, Slave I was attacked by Prince Xizor.

Sometime after Boba took over Slave I, he took it to Kuat Drive Yards to have it re-modified to fit his profession more suitably. The two rapid fire laser cannons were replaced with an ion cannon and a concussion missile launcher. A miniature tractor beam projector was added to assist in capturing bounties. A stolen sensor masking and jamming array made the ship invisible to sensors, allowing Fett to enter any planet, even Imperial Center, without hassle. He topped the armament off by changing the main ordinance of the projectile launchers to proton torpedoes. Once on-planet, Fett routinely stored a swoop bike aboard to make himself more ambulatory.

During his delivery of Han Solo to Jabba the Hutt, Fett engaged in a dogfight with two IG-88 assassin droids. IG-88C was destroyed the moment Fett emerged from hyperspace when, rather than inquiring about the other hunter's presence, he fired every weapon aboard Slave I. IG-88D followed Fett seconds after the destruction of his counterpart and began to pummel Fett's shields with laser fire.

However as the IG-2000 followed Boba into Tatooine's atmosphere, Fett activated his inertial dampers shedding his momentum and frying his hyperdrives. This move brought the IG-2000 directly into his sights, where he disabled the ship with his ion cannon, pulled it in with a tractor beam and launched a full bank of concussion missiles into it.



However, this powerful ship would eventually meet its end. During the "reborn" Emperor's attack on the New Republic, Boba Fett ambushed Han Solo on Nar Shaddaa. Fett damaged Millennium Falcon, but still continued to chase after it. The Falcon managed to escape and be repaired, but Fett was still patiently waiting for his quarry to return. Soon enough, Solo appeared, and he demonstrated his new "lightning gun," which tore parts of Slave I apart, although Fett managed to escape.

It is probable that Fett escaped through Slave I's onboard escape pod. The ship was replaced with Slave III&mdash;the second had already been used and discarded&mdash;then finally Slave IV. However, some time before the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Fett had managed to repair Slave I and used it once more after he lost Slave IV on Shogun.

It was revealed at this time that Slave I was equipped with an emergency medical droid when Briika Jeban was mortally wounded when she tackled a Yuuzhan Vong warrior and one of the spikes on his vonduun crab armor pierced her suit's plating. Despite its efforts, the droid was unable to save Briika.

He was seen flying the ship at both Raxus Prime as well as when he rescued Han Solo at Caluula Station, where it was escorted by four Gladiator assault fighters.

Behind the scenes
Some people mistakenly believe Slave I's design was inspired by a lamp post outside the ILM building. But Nilo Rodis-Jamero, an art director on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, said that his design for Slave I was actually based off of a radar dish. It was later on when the ship was being constructed at ILM that someone pointed out that it resembled a street lamp, and from then on people just assumed that that had been the original source of the design. Lorne Peterson was one of only two modelmakers to work on Slave I.