Hammer (Kilji picket cruiser)

The Hammer was a Kilji picket cruiser commanded by Colonel Tildnis, who served the Kilji Illumine, the nation of the Kilji species. It was armed with spectrum lasers and equipped with a main drive, a hyperdrive, and a tractor beam. The picket cruiser was one of the two Kilji cruisers in Illumine General Crofyp's task force, the other being Crofyp's Kilji war cruiser Anvil, which was longer than the Hammer.

In 18 BBY, a Grysk operative known as "Jixtus," who had allied himself with the Illumine's ruler, Generalirius Nakirre, dispatched the general's task force to the Unknown Regions' Rapacc system. Seeking to retrieve a group of refugees hiding on the planet Rapacc, the Kilji force arrived at Rapacc and was confronted by the Paccosh-commandeered Nikardun blockade frigate Aelos. Crofyp prepared a cross-fire attack on the Aelos after its commander, Uingali foar Marocsaa, refused to allow the Kiljis to retrieve the refugees; however, the Chiss heavy cruiser Springhawk—whose crew gave the Hammer the name of "Cruiser Two"—disabled the Anvil, destroying the war cruiser while the Hammer fled to the Unknown Regions' "Sunrise" system.

There, the Kilji vessel kept station with a Grysk vessel. However, the Aelos tracked down the Hammer, and the blockade frigate's crew boarded the picket cruiser. They stole data on the Illumine's battle fleet, the Illumine Kilhorde, and commandeered the cruiser, using it to attack the Grysk vessel while the Springhawk—whose crew codenamed the Hammer as "Bogey Two"—arrived. The Grysk warship destroyed the Hammer and escaped into hyperspace.

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