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this needle-shaped Providence-class destroyer was General Griveous' flagship during the last stages of the Clone Wars. The Invisible Hand was originally manufactured by the Quarren engineers of the Free Dac Volunteers Engineering Corps at the Pammant Docks. Its tapered bow and large outrigger fins gave it the appearance of a classical piece of Coruscant architecture. The ship was originally built for Nute Gunray and the Trade Federation, and was reassigned after General Grievous was given total control of the droid armies of the Separatists. Gunray initially refused to surrender the ship, but Darth Sidious himself demanded that the vessel be turned over to Grievous. As a minor consolation, Gunray was able to have Neimoidian navigators and gunners assigned aboard the Invisible Hand, to provide regular information on Grievous' activities. Grievous nearly killed Gunray over this dispute, and only Sidious' demand that the Trade Federation remain part of the Confederacy of Independent Systems kept him from killing the Viceroy. The ship provided Grievous with a fast, mobile flagship from which to conduct his war against the Old Republic. During the First Battle of Coruscant, Grievous was able to capture and hold Chancellor Palpatine aboard the ship. However, the Invisible Hand was forced to hold its own against an onslaught of fightercraft led by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. In an attempt to save the vessel, Grievous ordered his crew to move the ship slowly into the shelter of surrounding Separatist ships. The trick worked only briefly, as the two Jedi managed to get onboard and rescue Palpatine. The situation suddenly became worse as Republic warships located the Invisible Hand and began to pummel it with laser fire, unaware that Palpatine and the Jedi were still onboard. The ship lost its drive systems and began to tumble toward the surface of Coruscant. Only the incredible flying abilities of Anakin Skywalker prevented a major catastrophe, as he was able to pilot the crumbling wreckage of the Invisible Hand to a controlled crash-landing at an abandoned airstrip in Coruscant's industrial sector. Grievous, unfortunately, had fled the dying ship in an escape vessel, and escaped to Utapau.