Gauntlet (Pre Vizsla)

For other uses, see Gauntlet.

Gauntlet was a Kom'rk-class fighter/transport owned by the Mandalorian soldier Pre Vizsla. Designed and constructed by the Mandalorian starship manufacturing corporation, MandalMotors, the Gauntlet measured 52.3 meters in length, and took its name from the Basic language translation of the Mando'a word, Kom'rk. Equipped with powerful engines and twin laser cannons, Gauntlet fulfilled dual roles as a troop transport and starfighter, and was maintained by Vizsla—leader of the radical Mandalorian splinter-group known as the Death Watch—as his personal transport during the galaxy-spanning Clone Wars.

Description

Gauntlet was a Kom'rk-class fighter/transport, and like the smaller models of the Kom'rk-class, measured 52.3 meters in length.^[3]^[4] Gauntlet possessed broad, angular, rotating wings^[1] that alternated between an upright landing position when grounded, and a horizontal configuration while flying in the atmosphere or space.^[2] The starship was also equipped with dual, forward-facing laser cannons located at the nose of the main body.^[1]

History

The Gauntlet approaches Jabba's palace on Tatooine — The *Gauntlet* approaches Jabba's palace on Tatooine

At some point in time prior to 21 BBY,^[5] the Kom'rk-class line of starships was constructed for the violent and radical Mandalorian splinter-faction known as the Death Watch by rogue elements within MandalMotors,^[1] a leading Mandalorian starship company based on the planet Mandalore,^[6] within the capital city of Keldabe.^[7] By the beginning of the Clone Wars—a pan-galactic conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems—numerous Kom'rk-class fighters had entered into the possession of the Death Watch.^[1]