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- "Well, I guess we won't be escaping on that ship."
- ―O-Mer, after the Vermin-Thrax's destruction
The Vermin-Thrax was a modified HCT-2001 Dragonboat-class Reugeot 905 bulk freighter owned by the Trandoshan hunter Garnac. The hunter and his guild had altered the freighter to be a slave vessel, which they used to obtain captives and transport them to Wasskah, moon of Trandosha, to be released and hunted down as prey by the Trandoshans. The Vermin-Thrax was equipped with a chin turret set under the cockpit and powerful floodlights, while its hold was converted into prison cells. The front of the vessel featured imagery of the teeth of a demon from Trandoshan folklore in order to strike fear into Garnac's victims.[1]
During the Clone Wars, Garnac's guild captured the Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano, transporting her and several other prisoners aboard the Vermin-Thrax to Wasskah. On the moon, Tano encountered Jedi younglings Jinx, Kalifa, and O-Mer, and the four eventually resolved to fight back against the Trandoshans. Though Kalifa was killed,[3] the Jedi managed to ambush the Vermin-Thrax on its next stop on Wasskah. In a fight between Tano and one of the pilots, stray blaster bolts damaged the vessel's controls, and the Vermin-Thrax broke apart, crashing onto the moon. The Jedi were accompanied by the freighter's only captive, the Wookiee Chewbacca, while Garnac and his hunters discovered the Vermin-Thrax's wreckage the next day.[4]
Appearances
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Padawan Lost" (First appearance)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Wookiee Hunt"
Sources
"Padawan Lost" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link)- Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 93 Starship Fact File: HCT-2001 Dragonboat Freighter (First identified as Vermin-Thrax)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 93 Starship Fact File: HCT-2001 Dragonboat Freighter
- ↑ The Vermin-Thrax is destroyed in "Wookiee Hunt," which is placed between the episodes "Ghosts of Mortis" and "Water War" by
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Chronological Episode Order on StarWars.com (backup link). As Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the events of both episodes in 20 BBY, "Wookiee Hunt," and thus the Vermin-Thrax's destruction, must take place in that same year.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Padawan Lost"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Wookiee Hunt"