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A fanboat was a flat-bottomed vehicle used in swamps that was powered by propeller fans projecting above its stern. The Pongeeta-class speeder retained the basic shape of a traditional Hutt fanboat, with repulsor technology and fan-shaped ion engines instead of actual fans.[1]

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