#Firespray-class interceptor

[mordicaifeed]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

BIRTH OF THE FIRESPRAY-CLASS INTERCEPTOR -- THE BIRTH OF SLAVE I.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Slave I concept art from the pre-production stages of "The Empire Strikes Back," artwork by Nilo Rodis-Jamero, c. late 1978.

STAR WARS INTERVIEWS: "How did you got the job to work on the "STAR WARS" movies "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi"?"

NILO RODIS-JAMERO: "I got a call. I met George Lucas at his house in San Rafael where I failed three questions: "Do you like science fiction books? Do you like science fiction movies? Do you like movies?" He hired me."

SWI: "For the "STAR WARS" movies the designs were mostly done by Joe Johnston, Ralph McQuarrie and you. Did the three of you had to work close together? If so, how did the cooperation go?"

NILO: "Joe and I shared a building, later an office. Ralph worked from home. George met with us every other week. We were never given assignments per se, just what we felt like doing within the story/outline George gave us.

We cooperated by seeing what each other did and what George responded to. Nothing was formal or said or assigned. It was all by feel."

SWI: "Can you tell something how you approached the job of art director and costume designer for "STAR WARS" and where you got your inspiration for the fantastic designs and drawings you made?"

NILO: "Inspiration is from George’s story, to come up with something ownable and unique to the property, something simple and easy to remember."

Resolution from largest to smallest: 1200x1767, 917x1280, & 749x941.

Sources: www.bobafettfanclub.com/multimedia/galleries/5981 & https://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com/2021/04/an-empire-at-40-creating-slave-1.html.

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A Handful of My FAVORITE Star Wars Vehicles/Starships

N-1 Starfighter

Koro-2 All-Enviroment Exodrive Airspeeder

Firespray-31-Class Patrol & Attack Craft

Low Altitude Assault Transport/Infantry Gunship

Eta-2 Actis-Class Interceptor

Aggressive ReConnaissance - 170 Starfighter

TSMEU-6 Personal Wheel Bike

HAVw A6 Juggernaut

All Terrain Recon Transport

M-68 Landspeeder

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some thoughts about slave I/"boba fett's starship"

so, disney has apparently been removing the name "slave I" from lego kits in favor of the more neutral-sounding "boba fett's starship" and people are thus speculating that they're going to be pushing for a name-change in canon. i do think it's possible for such a change to be executed in a satisfying way—but first, let's talk about the ship's history in the expanded universe.

the thing is, despite being most commonly associated with boba fett, it wasn't originally his starship and he wasn't the one who named it. originally, the ship belonged to jango fett, boba's father, and it's for his story that the name of the ship is so significant. see, long before jango ever became a bounty hunter or acquired slave I, he was a member of the true mandalorian faction, adopted by mand'alor jaster mereel after his biological family was wiped out by death watch. jaster treated jango like both a son and an heir and it should be noted that jango had a ship during this period—its name was jaster's legacy.

however, things were not to last. collaborating with the governor of a planet called galidraan, death watch convinced the jedi that the true mandalorians were war criminals, leading to a confrontation between the two groups that ended with the jedi all but wiping out the true mandalorians, leaving jango as the sole survivor. the jedi then handed jango over to galidraan's government, which stripped him of his armor and sold him into slavery.

after spending years as a slave, jango eventually escaped and reclaimed his armor, becoming a bounty hunter. it was during his early years as a bounty hunter that jango took a job that ended with the destruction of his ship jaster's legacy, forcing jango to escape in a new ship—a stolen firespray-class interceptor that, in the aftermath of losing jaster's legacy, he named slave I.

so, i'm pretty sure the significance of the name is self-explanatory at this point. the name's "jaster's legacy" and "slave I" are both references to jango himself. in much the same way that the changes to jango's armor reflects his loss of identity, so too does the transition from one ship to the next. i mean, it's kind of on-the-nose: he goes from jaster's legacy, a reference to his hope of living up to the legacy of his adoptive father, to slave I—a cold, anonymous epithet that invokes his experiences as both a slave and sole survivor.

so, tying this back into boba and the possible name change coming down the pipe: obviously the name slave I has a lot more significance for his father than it does for him. and furthermore, it's not a positive significance either. the brutal, denigrating nature of the name is a reflection of jango's brutal, denigrating experiences. it represents the shift in his life from hope to desolation. and thus, if we're going off the assumption that the boba we saw in the mandalorian (and probably in the book of boba fett) is turning over a new leaf, then changing slave I's name could actually make a lot of sense. symbolically, it could serve a lot of different functions: boba letting go of his dad's baggage, reclaiming his family's stolen sense of identity, completing the cycle from desolation back to hope, or even just redefining himself as something other than a "slave" to other people's orders. there's a lot of interesting places writers could go with a new name—IF there's an acknowledgment of why it's significant in the first place.

of course, that would require a deeper acknowledgement of the expanded universe on disney's part, so maybe it's a bit unlikely... but the potential is certainly there!

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"A SINISTER AND FORMIDABLE BOUNTY HUNTER LIKE BOBA FETT NEEDS A SIMILARLY SINISTER AND FORMIDABLE SHIP..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a selection of conceptual art pieces of Bob's Fett's Firespray-class Interceptor, Slave I, artwork by Nilo Rodis-Jamero and Joe Johnston, c. 1978-1979.

"A sinister and formidable bounty hunter like Boba Fett needs a similarly sinister and formidable ship to achieve his goals, and the memorable Slave 1 would soon prove an ugly-looking and intimidating, capable stand-out vessel of the "STAR WARS" saga."

-- STAR WARS AFICIONADO, "An "Empire" at 40: Creating "Slave I," April 2021

Sources: www.flickr.com/photos/randar/20648637293/in/photostream & https://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com/2021/04/an-empire-at-40-creating-slave-1.html.