Corsair

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Corsair was a massive Derriphan-class battleship built before 5,000 BBY. It was equipped with powerful Force-enhancing devices capable of causing stars to become supernovae.

Contents 1 Characteristics 2 History 3 Appearances 4 Sources 5 Notes and references

[edit] Characteristics

The battleship was green in color and larger than most other capital ships. Its control room was dominated by a bank of crystals which the pilot could use to control the ship through the dark side of the Force. As with many other dark side-controlled devices, it left a dark presence in the Force and enhanced the powers of dark siders. The Sith crystal was in reality a superweapon, enabling someone adept in the Force to cause stars to become supernovae.

[edit] History

During the Great Hyperspace War, the Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow used it as part of the Sith fleet which invaded the Galactic Republic. During the battle of Primus Goluud, Sadow used the Force and the vessel's crystals to cause the red supergiant Primus Goluud to go supernova, forcing the Sith fleet and Empress Teta's Koros forces to retreat. This allowed Naga Sadow's forces to flee back to Sith Space.

The Dark Lord's fleet came out of hyperspace over Korriban, and was quickly confronted by a larger fleet under his rival Ludo Kressh. Ludo Kressh declared himself the new Dark Lord, casting Naga Sadow out of the Sith Empire forever. A brief space battle ensued between the two, until Naga Sadow crashed one of his own ships into Ludo's flagship, killing the self-proclaimed Dark Lord.

Moments later, Empress Teta's forces arrived above Korriban, and attacked Sadow's fleet. The Koros ships quickly took advantage, crippling the Dark Lord's flagship. As a last resort, Naga Sadow ordered the Massassi on two of his ships to kill their captains, forming a barricade between himself and the Republic ships. A small squadron of gunships followed Sadow however, but he once again used the Force weapons attached to his ship, this time on the nearby Denarii stars, causing them as well to go nova, destroying the gunships and their pilots. Empress Teta and her Jedi and Republic allies, presuming Sadow to have died in the explosion, recalled her fleet and returned to Koros Major.

Naga Sadow, however, escaped to the remote jungle moon of Yavin 4. There, he performed cruel genetic experiments on his Massassi soldiers and later forced them to build temples and palaces to honor him. He also had his flagship buried beneath one of the temples while he kept himself in suspended animation through the use of Sith alchemical technology to await the arrival of one whom he would bestow upon his Sith teachings and bring about the new Sith Golden Age that the late Dark Lord Marka Ragnos had prophesied.

In 4,400 BBY, the fallen Jedi Freedon Nadd awoke Naga Sadow, and after the Sith Lord bestowed his Sith teachings upon him, Nadd killed him. Nadd would later start a dark side theocracy on Onderon which would last until Jedi/Republic intervention in 4,000 BBY.

When another fallen Jedi named Exar Kun arrived on the jungle moon in 3,997 BBY, he enslaved the native Massassi and had them construct yet more temples. During an excavations of an ancient temple, his slaves discovered Naga Sadow's entombed battleship. Later, during the Great Sith War in 3,996 BBY, he placed the Krath leader Aleema Keto and the fallen Cathar Jedi Crado in command of Naga Sadow's battleship during an attack on Kemplex IX. When the Jedi and the Republic fleet arrived, Aleema used the battleship's Force device to rip the cores from the ten stars of the Cron Cluster. This brought about the Cron Supernova, which obliterted both battle fleets, the Corsair, and the entire Cron Cluster.

[edit] Appearances

• Tales of the Jedi: The Fall of the Sith Empire
• Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith (First appearance)
• Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War

[edit] Sources

• Star Wars Encyclopedia
• The Essential Chronology
• The New Essential Chronology
• Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

[edit] Notes and references