Innovator

The Innovator was an Elite-class research vessel designed by the engineer Vam Targes and constructed by the insectoid Cyclorrians at the shipyards over the planet Cyclor during the High Republic Era.

Description[]

Over 300 meters long, the Innovator featured the latest scientific and medical equipment of the time, including cybernetic workshops, bioengineering labs, a medical library, analysis stations, and research facilities. The research vessel was referred to as the pride of the Republic Science Corps. It was run by a network of forty-two intellex-grade droid processors and supported by a multi-motion framework.^[1] It had a set of reinforced transparisteel contamination pods on the lower decks of the ship. It was equipped with salinite bicarbonide for use in fire suppression.^[2]

History[]

The Innovator was a showpiece at the Republic Fair on Valo, but was later sunk in Lake Lonisa during an attack by the Nihil.^[1]

After the conclusion of the battle, the Jedi dispatched a dive crew to the sunken Innovator to check for survivors and recover data. The water was pumped out of the vessel and the major hull breaches were sealed. However, the Innovator was never recovered; half a year later, the Nihil invaded and occupied the planet. Two and a half years after the attack on the Republic Fair, the Innovator was recovered by the Jedi Padawan Ram Jomaram, the younglings Gavi, Kildo, and Tep Tep, and the aspiring pirate Zyle Keem. The group, who called themselves the Scarlet Skulls, flew the vessel out of the lake as the remaining Nihil fled. Jomaram and his Bonbraks repaired the vessel, allowing the group to leave the planet.^[4]

Jomaram along with Tep Tep and Kildo took the ship to various places to distribute medical supplies and then returned to Coruscant when the ship's stocks were depleted. The ship was repaired and restocked. When a mission to investigate Nihil activity on Mynos III was launched, the Innovator was used to transport the Jedi and Republic Defense Coalition personnel. The ship exited hyperspace in the Arkanis sector near Palagosal to prepare for the next jump to Mynos III. After a distress signal was received, it launched Rina Greylark's diplomatic yacht Redemption to investigate and proceeded to Mynos III. It returned to the Arkanis sector and landed on Palagosal after receiving a holo transmission from Churo. The survivors from Palagasol boarded the ship to be transported back to Coruscant. As the Innovator approached Coruscant, the captured Nameless escaped. Jomaram was able to herd them through the lower levels by using various gaseous substances and then trap them in escape pods that were jettisoned. The escape pods were anchored via tractor beams to float behind the ship.^[2]