Ginivex-class fanblade starfighter

The Ginivex-class fanblade starfighter, also known as the Ginivex series and the Geonosian fanblade starfighter, was a model of starfighter manufactured by Huppla Pasa Tisc Shipwrights Collective. It was flown by Sith apprentice and Separatist commander Asajj Ventress during the Clone Wars against the Galactic Republic. The ship was equipped with a solar sail, which granted it greater speed and shielding at the cost of allowing other ships' sensors to more easily detect the fighter.

Six fanblade fighters were made for Ventress, one of which she flew during a mission to the planet Cato Neimoidia in 22 BBY. During the mission, Ventress left the starfighter hovering at the end of a sewage tunnel while she confronted the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Mill Alibeth, eventually grabbing Alibeth and leaping aboard the starfighter with her. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi then damaged the vessel with his lightsaber, forcing Ventress to jump inside the sinking vessel as Skywalker saved Alibeth. In 20 BBY, Ventress encountered Skywalker again when she used a fanblade starfighter to unsuccessfully try and extract the treacherous Republic senator Zast Tri'vak from the MPO-1400 Purgill-class star cruiser Halcyon.

Ventress also used one of the starfighters in the Battle of Sullust in the same year. After destroying the Star Destroyer Resolute with her craft, Ventress engaged Kenobi and Skywalker, although she was forced to crash in the Separatist command ship's hangar. Despite her master, Count Dooku, turning on Ventress and ordering her remaining forces to destroy the flagship, Ventress escaped aboard her damaged fanblade fighter before the cruiser's destruction.

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