Starlight Intruder



The Starlight Intruder was a large ship built by Salla Zend and Shug Ninx, built by the two smugglers in Ninx's starship garage on Nar Shaddaa. The ship, based off of the Mobquet Medium Transport, was constructed from salvaged parts of other ships, and featured:


 * jets attached underneath its hull to increase maneuverability
 * military-grade ion engines
 * an old Hutt hyperspace engine
 * four shield generators
 * retractable turbolaser turrets

When Han Solo ventured back into Salla and Shug's lives, in need of a ship cleared to make a Deep Core run to Byss, the old smuggler friends agreed and took Han, Leia, Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon to Byss. However, after a brief interaction with Imperial security, the Intruder was seized by Byss security and impounded. Salla and Shug were able to save the Falcon; later, they hijacked a Viper Hunter-Killer after Han and the others were taken prisoner and locked in the Imperial Citadel and rescued their friends. They left Byss, but in the process they effectively abandoned the Starlight Intruder while still in Imperial possession.

Some weeks later, Salla and Shug caught a freighter back to Byss, and when they arrived they discovered that the Starlight Intruder had been scuttled and slagged by technicians, with any valuable parts sold off to scavengers hoping to build and enchance their own ships, just as Salla and Shug had done once before to build the Intruder in the first place.

Behind the scenes
The Starlight Intruder is shown in the background of the episode Shindig of the show Firefly. As a response, the Star Wars artists Thomas Hodges made a similar move. See Firefly-class transport.

Appearances

 * Dark Empire