The lower deck is based on a standard keel and houses a cargo hold, engine compartment and full medical bay. The Defender-class corvette is built on two decks. Eventually the Jedi Council decided to commission a new corvette, custom-built for Jedi missions.

The prohibitive cost of building a completely independent, long-range picket ship prevented the Mantis from seeing large-scale production.Ĭorellian Defender-class Light Corvette (Knight/Consular)ĭuring the Great War, the Jedi Order was granted use of Republic military vessels, but these starships proved unsuitable for the specialized assignments Jedi often undertake.

To mitigate what would otherwise be an extremely cramped interior, the engineers of the D5-Mantis make efficient use of vertical space and minimal bulkheads to provide more open areas and ensure ease of access for maintenance.Īlthough the D5-Mantis is considered a best-in-class vessel, spotting one in use is a relatively rare sight. By employing three retractable weapon foils with independent power supplies, the Mantis is capable of safely deploying armament intended for larger class vessels, as well as reducing its profile significantly in order to be packed tightly into carrier ships with a surprising number of other Mantis crafts. Designed to meet the hefty demands of a much larger interdiction vessel, the Mantis was given a compact frame and built to fight-and nothing else. The D5-Mantis is an alpha predator in the cold depths of space. Kuat Drive Yards D5-Mantis Patrol Craft (Bounty Hunter)

This difficulty is only aggravated by the fact that Imperial Intelligence refuses to share its ship specifications with the Imperial military. Maintenance work on the X-70B is extraordinarily difficult and expensive due to the super-compressed nature of its mechanics, making the Phantom-class an unlikely candidate for wide-scale production. Its own sensor capabilities are formidable, and although not normally equipped with a cloaking device (due to heat and power concerns), the ship can be refitted with such a module for short-term missions. The X-70B shields its military-grade hardware from virtually all scanners, allowing it to travel unnoticed among civilian vessels. Beneath the sleek metal exterior and the interior wood paneling is an unmatched density of sophisticated circuits, wires, cooling systems and other components, many never before used in a starship of this size. One of the most sophisticated lightweight starships in the galaxy, the X-70B Phantom is an experimental model designed to resemble a luxury shuttle while possessing the combat capacity of a heavy starfighter.

Fury class imperial interceptor