The Bounty Hunters of Star Wars have always been a fan favorite
faction. And I think that all started
with that scene in The Empire Strikes Back.
6 mysterious characters
all with cool and unique designs, five of which
wouldn't be heavily featured in the films ever again.
I remember being a kid soaking up as much information about them as I could
and I became particularly fascinated with their ships.
So today that's what I'll be talking about: the ships
of the Bounty Hunters from The Empire Strikes Back.
Let's get the obvious one out of the way: the Slave One.
Boba Fett's ship was a modified Firespray 31 Class
patrol and attack craft. It was first owned
by Jango Fett, but it passed to Boba after his death.
In the midst of the Clone Wars, Boba was arrested
and the ship wound up in the hands of the Pirate, Hondo Ohnaka,
who repainted it. It's currently unknown
how he got the Slave One back but it was in Fett's possession again by
the end of the Clone Wars.
It was armed with laser cannons, blaster cannons, seismic charges,
ion cannons, and launchers for proton torpedoes and concussion missiles.
In Legends, the ship was an experimental police
craft for the prison moon Oovo IV.
Oovo IV is still canon having been mentioned in the book Thrawn
and the reference book Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
also says the Slave One was first
used there, but that book has some known inconsistencies,
so that may or may not still be true.
Bossk's ship was a modified YV-666 light freighter,
known as the Hound's Tooth.
It is a canon ship thanks to its appearances in The Clone Wars
and the book, Ezra's Gamble, but not much is
actually known about it so I'll shift over to Legends for more details.
The Ship was armed with a laser cannon
turret, an ion cannon, and a concussion missile launcher.
The interior included a training chamber, an armory,
a medical bay, and a prison. The prison was a
pretty bleak place where Bossk kept his
trophy collection and a skinning table for
Wookiee captives.
The rest of the ships have only been shown in Legends material so far.
Dengar owned a Jumpmaster 5000 that he
called the Punishing One. Originally a Stock Transport, Dengar
modified it to hold a quad laser cannon, an ion cannon,
and a proton torpedo launcher. The laser cannon
was operated by a permanently installed R2 unit so Dengar
could concentrate on flying. It was a smaller
ship, classified as a Starfighter, and did not
carry any holding cells because Dengar had a habit of
only collecting dead bounties.
It was also fairly slow in hyperspace, only having
a Class 3 Hyperdrive.
The IG-2000 was a completely unique
starship, designed and used by IG-88.
Since it was operated by a droid, systems like Life Support,
or inertial compensators were often disabled,
allowing the ship to perform dangerous maneuvers that would
be life-threatening to an organic pilot.
It was armed with two heavy laser cannons, and one ion cannon.
The only area of the ship that held any life support
systems was the prisoner hold.
The ship was destroyed along with one of the IG-88 models by Boba Fett's
Slave One, when the IG-2000 attempted to
ambush and steal Han Solo from him.
The final ship we'll be talking about today
is the Mist Hunter, the Byblos Drive Yards G-1A starfighter
operated by Zuckuss and 4-LOM.
Owned specifically by Zuckuss,
the ship was named for the amonia mist of his home planet, Gand.
It was armed with two assault laser cannons.
The atmosphere inside the ship was filled with amonia
so Zuckuss could fly without his breathing apparatus.
But the prisoner cells were airlocked so oxygen
breathers could survive.
And since 4-LOM was a droid, he had no issue.
That brings this list to a close as we've now covered the ships belonging to every
Bounty Hunter featured in The Empire Strikes Back.
Which ship is your favorite? Let me know in the comments.
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