- "I developed the explosive slugs on Vatta Four, when I found myself without my blaster […] All I could get my hands [sic] was a locally made slug thrower rifle (a Baed Sharpshooter, I think it was called)."
- ―Personal addendum by Airen Cracken, Cracken's Rebel Field Guide
Vatta Four was a terrestrial celestial body[2] located in Wild Space's Vatta system.[1] During the Galactic Civil War, the local inhabitants of Vatta Four manufactured the type of slugthrower rifle known as the Baed Sharpshooter.[2]
Rebel Alliance General Airen Cracken visited the astronomical object at some point during that conflict. When a modification Cracken had made to his blaster had rendered it inoperable, the general, equipping himself with a Baed Sharpshooter, used detonite from an explosive charge he also had access to and created explosive slugs, a type of munition well-suited for penetrating the armor of the Galactic Empire's stormtroopers. At some point following the Battle of Yavin, Cracken described his visit to Vatta Four in Cracken's Rebel Field Guide, a datafile that documented various pieces of equipment utilized by Alliance agents.[2]
Behind the scenes
Vatta Four was mentioned in the 1991 sourcebook Cracken's Rebel Field Guide, which was written by Christopher Kubasik for use with West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.[2] The 2009 reference book The Essential Atlas placed the Vatta system, and therefore Vatta Four, in grid square M-21.[1]
Sources
- Cracken's Rebel Field Guide (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Essential Atlas — Based on corresponding data for Vatta system
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Cracken's Rebel Field Guide