FalseSun Runner
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Sun Runner
(False)Production information
Usage
Role(s)
Destroyed
Present for battles/events
- "Groodo, we experienced an interesting event earlier today ... Some Jedi destroyed a most unusual derelict starship."
"WHAT?! Destroyed?!"
"Yes, that's right. I'd like to tell you all about it, but this line may not be secure. I was hoping you might be able to come to Fondor ... We must have a bad connection. I suggest you come to Fondor at once ... I think you should know there's still a chance we can fulfill our business arrangement. It might be a good idea if you brought some of your special droids with you."
"Droids? How many?"
"As many as you can." - ―Senator Rodd of Fondor informs Groodo of the destruction by the Jedi of the Hutt's counterfeitSun Runner, and advises him to prepare an appropriate counter-response in order to preserve their lucrative business agreement[1]
In23 BBY, one year before the start of theClone Wars,Groodo theHutt created acopy of the ancientstarship theSun Runner in a scheme to destroy theFondor Shipyards. The counterfeit derelict was powered by ahypermatter reactor, fitted with a contemporarysensor jammer, and armed with 20Arakyd Industries sensor-guided missiles and state-of-the-artTrang RoboticsDuelist Elitecombat droids withflexisteelsabers andvocabulators. Additionally, controlling the ship was a dome-headed, blackR1 astromech (Industrial Automaton) guarded by threeSoroSuub501-Z security droids heavily armed with newMerr-SonnB-20 blaster rifles with pressure-wiped stocks.[2][1]
Professing he believed the derelict to be genuine, but having only seen, he said, its façade,Fondor'sSenatorRodd, who claimedsalvage rights to the drifting vessel, stated that he wished to transform it into an amusement center—a kind of orbital museum of interstellar travel (while, in fact, he was in secret collusion with Groodo). Alternately,Nallastia'sMargravine,Quenelle, as the direct descendant of theMargrave Octan, claimed full property ownership of what she, too, believed, by all outward appearances, to be authentic. She accused Rodd of secretly harboring the belief that the vessel contained—though she assured him he was mistaken—the fabledLost Stars of Nallastia.[2]
When the derelict ship fired upon theRepublic diplomatic cruiserUnitive, however, it was counterattacked and destroyed by theJediMaster-apprentice team ofObi-Wan Kenobi andAnakin Skywalker. The counterfeit ship's advanced power source, navigational equipment, and armaments provided evidence that this inexact replica did not originate from theUnknown Regions of the galaxy, as was previously thought. The falseSun Runner was at last destroyed by Skywalker when the 18-year-old Jedi planted aproton grenade on the vessel'shypermatter reactor and demolished its sensor-guided missile silo with theconcussion-missilelauncher of aborrowedCloakShape fighter.[2]
Arriving back on Fondor, Rodd openly accused Kenobi of having destroyed what the Senator claimed to have been the realSun Runner in a desperate attempt to resolve the dispute with Nallastia and prevent a Fondorian civil war. But Kenobi reaffirmed the ship's contemporary internal build and cutting-edge accoutrements, estimating its construction to have been within the previous four years and suggesting that Rodd consult with the crew of theFondor Space Patrol ship that had been recovered from the derelict, and ask them what they saw. The Senator could only accuse Kenobi again by suggesting that he had employed Jedimind tricks to compel the crew to tell Rodd only what the Jedi wanted him to believe, leaving them even less reliable as witnesses than the memory-wiped droids that were on board theSun Runner. It was then that Obi-Wan realized that he hadn't told Rodd that the transport's droids were memory-wiped, although it was something Anakin had, in fact, discovered when he was aboard the derelict.[1]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Adventures 1: Hunt the Sun Runner(andGame Book)(First appearance)
- Star Wars Adventures 2: The Cavern of Screaming Skulls(andGame Book)(Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Adventures 3: The Hostage Princess(andGame Book)(Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Adventures 4: Jango Fett vs. the Razor Eaters(andGame Book)(Mentioned only)