sith infiltrator
The Sith Infiltrator was designed with clandestine missions in mind. The starship is about 85 feet long and capable of hyperspace travel. It has extraordinary sensory and tracking equipment and is even rumored to have a cloaking device.
Darth Maul used this ship to track Queen Amidala and her Jedi escorts to Tatooine and land unnoticed. The ship’s probe droids were then able to fix the location of the queen’s starship. Using a speeder bike carried in the cargo hold Maul raced across the desert in an attempt to destroy the jedi and capture the queen.
When I was designing the Holocron for Mr. George Lucas I wanted to have symmetry. I had planned to include one light and one dark ship from each of the (then) six movies. At the time I didn’t have a dark side ship from The Phantom Menace. Since this gift was for Mr. Lucas, everything needed to be perfect. With just four hours left before my deadline, I decided to go with the Sith Infiltrator. All I needed to do now was invent it.
I started with the overall design of the Naboo fighter, added the wings of Anakin’s fighter, and combined them with the hull of the Royal Naboo Starship. Then all it needed was a cockpit, which I borrowed from the design of Darth Vader’s fighter, and Presto! It was finished. I completed the holocron two hours before the deadline. I guess deadlines can be inspirational, but I still don’t like them.