Starkiller

The Starkiller was a freighter used by the bounty hunter Leshy Drobo prior to 20,000 BBY. Drobo and his partner, the assassin droid XT-8, captured the Jedi Knight Roni von Wasaki, on whom a bounty had been placed. The Jedi was carbon-frozen and transported in a secret compartment aboard the Starkiller to the crime boss who had originated the bounty. While the starship was still in hyperspace transit, however, Wasaki, while still imprisoned in carbonite, planted a telepathic suggestion in Drobo's mind so that the latter would release the former. When XT-8 learned of his partner's intention, the droid attacked and killed him but incidentally also damaged the Starkiller hyperdrive. The ship reverted to realspace, and XT-8 simply resigned to carrying on the trip at sublight speed, which made the journey drag on for twenty millennia.

During the Galactic Civil War, another starship emerged out of hyperspace due to the presence of the Starkiller, which by that time was rumored to be a ghost ship. One of the ship's crew-members informed the others about the ancient history of the Starkiller, and the group eventually boarded the vessel. Aboard the ship, the explorers faced XT-8, who attempted to eliminate the boarders, and eventually learned about the ship's fate and discovered and liberated Wasaki, who had gone mad due to the thousands of years spent imprisoned in carbonite. The group of individuals and Wasaki subsequently departed from the Starkiller aboard the other starship.

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