The Shadowcaster III Ship Class: Heavily modified Mandalorian starfighter Weapons: Four heavy repeating disruptor cannons, two harpoon tow hooks, two medium lasers, two ion cannons Propulsion: One central hyperdrive with two sublight thrusters Crew: One pilot, one astromech droid, one passenger (optional) After choosing to lead the life of a justice-seeking bounty hunter, Mandalorian-born Jedi Joran Kast realized the need to have his own personal ship. He choose to modify the existing chassis of an old Mandalorian fighter he found abandoned on Tattooine. The advantages The Shadowcaster III has over other bounty hunter ships are its small size, wide array of weapons, and its unusually large hyperdrive generator (it is rumored that The Shadowcaster III once outran a Correllian freighter owned by warlord Davik Kang). The Shadowcaster III's main disadvantage is it's lack of cargo space. There is room for one passenger in the cockpit which Joran often chooses to use as a restraining place for bounty victims (he rarely kills his prey) and a compartment to store weapons and equipment. The color scheme of The Shadowcaster III is red, white and grey. Joran choose to cover almost all of the originally red battle scheme, but to leave some remnants to remind himself of the war within all of the galaxy. The white is for peace, something Joran strives to bring wherever he can. The Shadowcaster III is always on the move and rarely stays in one system for very long. It is unknown where Joran maintains the ship, though the best guess is somewhere in the remains of the Katarr System, a system destroyed by the Sith eons ago. The Shadowcaster III also features an astromech droid named R9-D6. R9 was originally hard-wired to the ship, but he was continually being shot off and proved to be a liability in battle so Joran made him a little more independent. R9 has the ability to fly The Shadowcaster III and to send encoded signals through space. “To find Shadowcaster III would be to find only trouble. Kast may be a peace-loving Jedi, but his ship shows no mercy.” – Admiral Carth Onasi E-mail me at zacharysweiggart@delta.edu for comments or questions.