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Gladiator Assault Fighter

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this combat starship was used by the mercenaries who accompanied Boba Fett during the height of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy. The Gladiator was originally developed by FreiTek Incorporated for use by the Mandalorian Protectors under the command of Fenn Shysa, first as a patrol ship and then as an attack craft as the Mandalorians began to expand their sphere of influence. The mission profile of the one-man Gladiator was to travel in groups of four ships, which were slaved to a Pursuer-class enforcement ship for jumps through hyperspace. Each of these fighters was armed with four Bovin J-3F laser cannons and an ArMek SW-12c ion cannon on its nose. Military history buffs held that the Gladiator resembled a Rattatakian short sword that was stabbed into a Tlonian escutcheon.