Urusai

Urusai

Urusai was the second personal starfighter flown by Taran Allantis during his missions fighting alongside Wayland's Wilders. During the Galactic Civil War, Allantis was a skilled assault pilot, and was attached to Jacen Wayland's privateer group in order to provide training to its operatives, as well as assisting in their campaigns. At the time, he flew a modified N-1 starfighter which he'd named Sandbat, after a creature native to his homeworld of Tatooine.

After the Battle of Endor, Allantis was again sent to work with the Wilders, this time alongside a large number of New Republic personnel (they provide the crew of the gunship, Overkill, among other duties), and with a new, deadlier starship under his command. Allantis had been one of the Alliance's best pilots at flying its heavy assault craft, beginning with an outdated Koensayr Y-wing, and later becoming one of the first pilots granted the right to fly the new B-wing heavy assault starfighters, which proved to be love at first flight.

Taran's early experiences as a privateer in Sandbat influenced his choices when it came time to customize Urusai (named, like his previous ship, for a Tatooinian predator). Extended missions away from any sort of resupply base led to his swapping out the proton torpedo launcher usually mounted in the fighter's lower ordinance pod for a turbolaser and dedicated generator, allowing for more prolonged heavy attacks. Lately, when faced with the possibility of combat with the Yuuzhan Vong, he would replace the ship's ion cannons, which were useless against the Vong's biotechnology, with a second pair of pulse lasers.