Gilagimar

The Gilagimar was a Xolonolox class long range deep space explorer and heavy cruiser built during the Expansion Era. Originally constructed on the Killik hive world Yoggoy under the name Xi'qalraarlaq'ix in the year 24,960 BBY as part of a Killik plan to rediscover the Lost killik hive on Alderaan, the ship was captured in the Mid Rim by the expanding Ailon Empire Because of The advanced non-beacon guided hyperdrive onboard, the ship was fought over by numerous races until coming into the possession of the Galactic Republic. The Gilagimar was recommissioned in the Republic fleet under the command of command of captain (and later admiral) Victor Iscandar who commanded it through many missions to chart the Galaxy, including the first ever mission to discover the Rakatan homeworld. The Republic eventually lost the Giligimar at the Battle of Telsia Minor and the ship changed hands several times before being recovered by the Republic just before The battle to hold Foerost. The Giligimar was severely damaged in the battle and lost by the Republic again. The ship eventually found its way to a scrap heap on Raxus Prime. In 45 ABY a Fel Empire Archeological team was sent to excavate and research this ancient and historic vessel.

Construction and Killik control
Little is known of the events surrounding the Giligimar's construction, or why the Killiks wished to end their reclusive ways. From what is known is that the Killiks commissioned the ship under the name name Xi'qalraarlaq'ix to rediscover their lost hive on Alderaan. The navigation databanks do indicate that along its journey the Xi'qalraarlaq'ix charted several worlds including Ansion, Ord Mantell and Ithor. before arriving onto what would later be known by the rest of the Galaxy as the Hydian way. The Cathilians on the remote planet Alinar explained to captain Iscandar's crew that his ship had visited them before and landed insect like beings. This likely happened when the Killiks held the ship. The Killik's mission was eventually cut short when the Xi'qalraarlaq'ix came to the border of the Ailon Empire. From what the accounts of the Ailon defector Ceeresh explained, the Ailons initially permitted the Xi'qalraarlaq'ix to cross their territory, but when they learned the ship held a non-beacon guided hyperdrive they attempted to ambush the ship with five Ailon interceptors in the Galandeen asteroid field. The Xi'qalraarlaq'ix escaped after successfully destroying three and damaging a fourth. After a running battle, the ship managed to flee to a moon orbiting a gas planet to make repairs, however, Ailon fleet soon arrived with nine interceptors and two pocket cruisers. The Xi'qalraarlaq'ix put up a stubborn fight, destroying four interceptors and and a pocket cruiser before having weapons and engines knocked off line. The ship was boarded and the entire crew was killed in the resulting fight except for one Killik who was taken back to Ailon as a prisoner.

First Ailon control
As soon as the ship was captured by the Ailons, they immediately tore into the engine room to learn as much about the non-beacon guided hyperdrive as possible. The ship was soon towed back to Ailon for further reverse engineering. Because of the severe damage to the ship an the low technological understanding of Ailon engineers, very little technology from the ship could be duplicated. They were ,however, able to repair the ship and commission it into the Ailon fleet under the name Elshina. It was at this time that the ship's crew quarters and work stations were redesigned to be more suitable for humanoid use. The Ailons wasted no time putting their new, highly advanced ship to use, and soon sent the Elshina to western borders of their space to confront pirates. The Elshina remained in this task for several months, destroying pirate fleets and guarding hyperlanes. During this time the ship may have engaged in the extermination of a pirate nest at the battle of Gos Hutta. The Elshina eventually made a hyper jump error and exited hyperspace near a radioactive pulsar, after burning out the engines attempting to escape, the ship was ordered to be abandoned by its captain.

Broken Skull control
Almost as soon as the Ailons evacuated the ship, it was towed out of the system by a pirate gang called the Broken Skull, sponsored by Bedrossa the Hutt and led by Rudo Dragoon. The Broken Skull augmented the ships engines and weapon power feeds, they also installed primitive boarding harpoons. They then incorporated it into their fleet under the name Spirit of the Storm. The Spirit of the storm continued to raid and attack ships for the next seven months, selling their cargoes and their crews as slaves. Eventually the Ailons would not tolerate the harassment of their shipping any longer, and they sent a large fleet to hunt down the Broken skull pirates. In preparation for the oncoming onslaught, Rudo Dragoon asked Bedrossa the Hutt for a large sum of money to repair his ships with, Bedrossa granted the wish but told Rudo he was now in debt. In the resulting battle with the Ailon squadron, the Broken Skulls lost their entire fleet except for the Spirit of the Storm which narrowly escaped. With his pirating assets ruined, Rudo was forced to surrender the Spirit of the Storm to Bedrossa as payment for his debt.

Hutt control
With Bedrossa now in control of Spirit of the Storm, he was left with a considerable opportunity, do to the fact that the ship was one of the most advanced known to exist at the time. He could now either sell the ship at a high price and become one of the wealthiest of the Hutt clans or he could incorporate it into his fleet and force the other clans into submission. Unfortunately for Bedrossa,while the ship was docked on Nal Hutta a group of Evocii rebels managed to get onto the planet from Nar Shadda and free a large group of Bedrossa's other Evocii slaves, they then highjacked the Spirit of the Storm.

Evocii control
The Evocii, after getting out of the Hutt Empire, renamed the ship the Chain Breaker, they planned to use the ship in a war to liberate the Evocii and drive the huts of of Nal Hutta. So they quickly began capturing, unarmed, Hutt owned transport ships and refitting as best they could as warships. They then made a base at the edge of Hutt space and began to make raids against planetary targets. Because the Evocii guerilla army was low on manpower, they began to hire foreigners to command and operate their ships. One such person, a human smuggler named Kel Solvan was given command of the the Chain Breaker. Solvan also a recruited several other species, mostly from Hutt space. At first, the Hutts could not effectively resist the continued attacks by the Evocii rebels because of their lack of political unity. However after an Evocii riot on Nal Hutta and a resulting raid on Nal hutta by the rebels, the hutts were now convinced that the rebels were now a major threat and unified to oppose them. Things began to turn sower for the rebels after a failed attack on Da Soocha and eventually the Hutts were poised to strike the Evocii's main base. With nowhere to run, the evocii stocked up their defenses of the upcoming final battle in hopes of at least martyring themselves. At this point Kel Solvan who was not ready to die in a war that was not his finally decides to desert the evocii. He leaves with the Chain Breaker, along with those of his Evocii crew who also don't want to die in the upcoming battle.

Solvan's personal control
With the Evocii rebellion crushed, Kel Solvan, now in total possession of the Chain Breaker, returns to his smuggling career, the speed of his ship allows it to excel at outrun customs ships in the event of an unfriendly welcome, which was unfortunately very often because of the Chain Breaker's now growing reputation. Despite, this Solvan apparently was still relatively prosperous in his business. Solvan was eventually trusted enough that he was hired by a bounty hunter to, transport a Jedi in stasis. eventually however the Jedi was able to contact the rest of the Jedi on Ossus through the force, and they persuaded the republic to send a fleet in pursuit of the Chain Breaker. After cornering Solvan on the Corellian run, a battle ensued in which the stasis pod was damaged and the Jedi woke up. A frightened Solvan then attempted to surrender the ship, before realizing that the Jedi he was carrying had in fact turned to the Dark Side and had no intention of surrendering, The Dark Jedi quickly slaughtered the entire crew, except Kel Solvan, who was dumped out of the ship in an escape pod to distract the Republic ships and then conjured a force illusion to allow his escape.

Hunt for the Bogan Phantom,
The Dark Jedi who commandeered the Chain Breaker quickly rechristened it the Bogan phantom making it clear that it was his intention to join the legions of Lettow. This immediately alarmed the Great Expanding Powers who hoped to get to the Bogan Phantom first. The Dark Jedi arranged for a rendezvous with the Legions of Lettow on border, however, the Republic and Rendili fleets were quickly in hot pursuit. With Kel Solvan as their guide, the Republic was able to home in on the Bogan Phantoms engine signature, however, the Rendili fleet was faster and managed to reach Bogan Phantoms rendezvous point first. The Dark Jedi, Who was controlling most of the ships functions using the Force, was unable to mount a successful defense against the Rendili dreadnoughts withering barrages that quickly disabled the ship. The Rendilis were ,however, afraid to send a boarding party and instead permitted the Republic fleet to send a Jedi onboard to deal with the Dark Jedi. The Dark Jedi was eventually Incapacitated after a ferocious sword duel and the Rendilis immediately afterward sent marines to board the Bogan phantom. This act was viewed by the Republic fleet as betrayal and they immediately opened fire on the rendili fleet just as the Lettow fleet was arriving. Battle near the Lettow Border. A three way fight ensued and eventually the Bogan Phantom, under Rendili control, slipped out of the fight pursued by a republic corvette under Commander [[Victor Iscandar. After a long chase the damaged Bogan Phantom attempted to make for into Devaronian space where they docked at a Devaronian space station for repairs. Because the Devaronians were neutral, the Iscandar's corvette could not attack the space station outright and instead chose to also dock at the space station, allegedly for repairs, Iscandar then sent an armed team to the airlock where the Bogan Phantom was docked and forced their way in, seizing control of the vessel.

First Republic control
The Devaronians immediately protested to the Republic's violation of their neutrality in this situation, but the Commander Iscandar party refused to back down, trying to learn as much about the Bogan Phantom as possible before they were evicted. The Devaronian government refused to allow the forcible removal of Republic troops from the Bogan Phantom for fear of escalating the problem. The standoff continued, and eventually the Rendili government began to question why the Republic had allowed this conflict to be taken so far, the Republic publicly condemned the violation of Devaronian neutrality, but at the same time it was a fait accompli as the Republic boarding part continued to tear through systems on the Bogan Phantom and examen them. Eventually the Legions of Lettow decided to take advantage of the diplomatic standoff and launched a raid on the Devaronian space station, carrying off with them both the republic corvette and the Bogan Phantom. Commander Iscandar now having lost his ship, violated neutrality laws and provoked war with a nation the Republic was usually peaceful with, was recalled to coruscant to face a court martial.

First Lettow control
The Legions of Lettow now planned to use the Bogan Phantom as part of a decisive strike against the fledgling Republic, and for that removed a large amount of extraneous comforts from the crew quarters, they also increased the number of Beam Tube mounts from 38 to 44, and armed the ship with military grade Pressure Bombs. Unfortunately the plans by Legions of Lettow were frustrated by member planets who did not want involve their Empire in a war that, on paper, they could not win, no matter how decisive the first strike from this new weapon could be. For this reason, the Legion hired Trandoshian mercenaries to "steal" the Bogan Phantom, these mercenaries were given the pass codes to the ship at Foerost shipyard and piloted the ship out and into hyperspace without alerting a soul. The mercenaries prepared to make the strike against the Repiblic without Lettow bearing the blame.

Invasion of the Republic
The Trandoshians piloted the Bogan Phantom to the Republic border where they quickly fought through the Republic's border outposts and gaurdships. The Republic was not expecting an outright assault because they believed that the Legions of Lettow were not ready for war and they were not prepared to mount a viable defense in time. in an act out of desperation, it was decided to temporarily suspend the court martial of commander Victor Iscandar and give him command of an irregular fleet of armed merchant ships. As the Bogan Phantom continued its advance to Coruscant, Admiral Kator ordered all task forces to consolidate near Humbarine in hopes of stopping the Bogan Phantom there, commander Iscandar's squadron was not called ordered here and was instead left to the home defense of Coruscant. In the resulting Battle of Humbarine the poorly coordinated Republic fleet was quickly eliminated before it could even form into ranks. There was now nothing standing between the Bogan Phantom and Coruscant which they could easily threaten into surrender. But first the Bogan Phantom had to get through commander Iscandar's fleet of armed merchantmen, which put up a strong willed fight at the Battle of Centax-1 as was expected of a fleet defending their capital, but they were destroyed in short order. The only thing that was unusual about the merchant fleet's destruction was the oddly oversized escape pods that were being ejected from the ships as they were destroyed, nonetheless, the Bogan Phantom moved into low orbit over Coruscant and took firing position over the Senate Hall. Just as the Senate officially declared that it would except the mercenaries' terms, the escape pods from the merchant fleet burst open and revealed dozens of snub fighters, these fighters quickly descended on the unprepared and over confident mercenary crew of the Bogan Phantom. The Bogan Phantom was quickly under attack from above while all of its beam tube cannons were pointed downwards by dozens of small and maneuverable fighters while Coruscant's gravity prevented the Bogan Phantom from maneuvering. Under repeated and unceasing barrage the Bogan Phantoms dorsal shields failed and the fighters started firing on the engines. Fearing that the ship would loose altitude and crash, the Trandoshian captain ordered the ship out of low orbit. With the Bogan Phantom now effectively in retreat, with her aft was now dangerously exposed to attack, the fighters soon knocked out the sublight engines and most of the aft beam tubes. Now immobilized, the fighters continued to swarm around the bogan phantom, destroying the foreword shields and knocking out the power feed to the beam tube cannons. Commander Iscandar finally decided to order his fighters find the docking bay and board the stricken Bogan Phantom, the boarding parties used captain Iscandar's intimate knowledge of the ship's interior to seize most key systems quickly. Finally admitting defeat, the Bogan Phantom's captain fled the ship in an escape pod, which landed in the under levels of Coruscant. Having lost their captain, the rest of the ship's crew surrendered.

Renaming Gilagimar
The Republic Senate was naturally overjoyed with Victor iscandar's heroic defense of the capital, and they demonstrated their gratitude by ordering all court martial charges against Iscandar dropped, as well as promoting him to Captain. Captain Iscandar would now be given command of the Bogan Phantom now renamed Gilagimar from the ancient Zhellish phrase: Seeck verto atcha gilagimar! which roughly translates to "Gory to the seeker of spoils"

The New Crew

 * Captain- Victor Iscandar
 * XO- Eiko Gadreel
 * Navigator- Sate Margos
 * Weapons Officer- Helene Ozuar
 * Chief Engineer- Aria Kortu
 * Chief Medical Officer- Henri Holst
 * Marine commander- Nelia Garallia
 * Jedi Liaison Thartan Rhane

First Year Missions (24,947 BBY- 24,946 BBY)
The Galactic Republic coveted the Gilagimar for use in their exploratory missions, out into what would be known as the colonies and the mid rim in later years. It was during this time that the gilagimar discovered dozens of minor hyperlanes and along the way made contact with various species. The Gilagimar was also sometimes forced to engage in various skirmishes with a variety of competing galactic powers such as the Lettow, the Ailons, The Rendili and the Hutts. The year ended when the the Gilagimar made contact with the Killks who demanded the return of the ship. When captain Iscandar refused, he was captured and put on trial by the Killiks, he was however soon rescued by the rest of the crew.

Second Year Missions (24,946 BBY- 24,945 BBY)
The Gilagimar was recalled to coruscant after its first year mission and was nearly decommissioned after several members of the Republic senate attempted order the ship reverse engineered to study its non beacon guided hyperdrive. After extensive debate in the senate the Gilagimar would remain in commission, but would be reassigned to explore the unknown regions in hopes of rediscovering Lehon the home planet of the Rakata. It was hoped that at Lehon the Republic would be able to discover more non beacon guided hyperdrives. The was Gilagimar soon set of in the direction of the Unknown Regions along with a small squadron of four other ships. The ambitious Ailon Empire was however not ignorant to these events and through the help of the double agent Ceeresh they learned of the Gilagimar's new mission. Through the brutal interrogation of the Killik prisoner the Ailons captured when they initially took the Gilagimar, the Ailons learned how to remotely activate a Killik transponder signal aboard the Gilagimar, they were then able to tune in to this frequency, also with the help of their captive, and were thus able to track the Gilagimar. A few months into to their search for Lehon, the crew of the Gilagimar still had no real lead to its location, and because of the extreme dangers of the black holes and hyperspace anomalies in the region, the Senate was about to order that the search be called off. Meanwhile, when the Ailons got wind that the search may be called off, they decided to order a strike force to go after the Gilagimar, hoping to at least use the opportunity to capture or destroy the Republic's best ship while it was vulnerable. The Ailon attack force ambushed the Gilagimar and its squadron near a hyperspace anomaly and the Republic ships, which were caught by surprise, attempted to flee but without hyperspace beacons and with a hyperspace anomaly nearby few were successful. The Gilagimar, which was heavily damaged and had taken heavy casualties, attempted to flee once the rest of the squadron had gotten away and eventually made a blind jump to light-speed. The Gilagimar exited hyperspace in in a totally unknown region of space at the total edge of the Galaxy. Though they were alive, with their problems of low food supplies, diminishing power and having gone where no man had gone before, their situation looked bleak. After wandering the void on sublight power for the next few days, the sensors spotted something, to far out to be an asteroid, upon further investigation it turned out to be an abandoned Rakatan ship. Captain Iscandar quickly ordered a landing party to board the Rakatan ship and attempt to find something to salvage. After searching the ship they discovered not only components to repair their hyperdrive and other systems, but also a star map to Lehon. After deciding that Lehon might be the only place that they may be able find refuge, the Gilagimar set off for the mysterious Rakatan home world, little did they know the Ailons could still track them. The Gilagimar soon drops out of Hyperspace in the Lehon System, where the crew is immediately awed at the sight of the massive Rakatan Space Station known as the Star Forge orbiting over the primary star, as the Gilagimar attempts to come into orbit of Lehon their engines are knocked offline by a disruptor field, causing the ship to make a forced landing on the planet. after investigating the planet's ravaged surface the Gilagimar's crew discover the disruptor field controls. Meanwhile the Ailon task force enters the system, when they discover the Gilagimar has crash landed they decide to start firing long range Pressure Bombs at the planet Lehon. Captain Iscandar, not wanting his damaged ship to be destroyed from space, ultimately decides to surrender to the ailons and let down the disruptor field. With the disruptor field down, the ailon squadron moves to investigate the Star forge. The Ailons also despatch a shuttle to Lehon and take Captain Iscandar prisoner, they then take him to the the Star Forge. As the Ailons investigate the Star Forge, they discover a colony of Rakatan survivors who refuse to activate the star forge for fear of its dark power, the Ailons attempt to interrogate these Rakata, who knew nothing the star forge's workings and eventually turned violent. While the Ailons attempt to exterminate the Rakata, a group of them make their way to the prison cell block and release Iscandar. Iscandar then blinds the Star Forge's sensors, allowing the Gilagimar to dock with the star forge without being noticed, the Star Forge then repairs the Gilagimar. The Gilagimar then undocks from the Star Forge and attempts to make an escape, but it is quickly pursued by the ailon fleet. The Gilagimar attempts to fight of as many of the Ailon ships as it can but is heavily outnumbered, eventually when the Gilagimar is out of range, the Rakata on the Star Forge manage to use ancient knowledge to reactive the disruptor field, causing the Ailon ships to crash on Lehon, with their crews marooned for the rest of their natural lives. With nothing left to gain from the mission, the Gilagimar makes the Long journey back to Coruscant.

Third Year Missions (24,945 BBY- 24,944 BBY)
As soon as the Gilagimar returned to coruscant, Republic intelligence ordered the entire mission to Lehon and its intentions to be completely classified, they also ordered that the hyperspace route to Lehon be deleted from the Gilagimar navcomputer to ensure that no one would ever find the planet again. As for the Ailons, they never learned of the fate of their ships, but when Gilagimar returned to Republic space intact they suspected the Republic was somehow involved with their disappearance. Despite intense diplomatic pressure from the Ailons to disclose the fate of their ships, the Republic would not back down. The Ailons, no longer willing to suffer such insults, were intent on taking more drastic measures, an invasion of the Republic. The Republic was not entirely unprepared for an Ailon invasion and though the Ailons gained some footholds in republic territory, they are soon driven back across the border, Captain Iscandar and the Gilagimar were in several of these important battles and the Gilagimar became Admiral Kator's personal flagship. What the Republic did not know is that the Ailon military elite predicted that an all out assault on the republic would fail and were instead planning to catch the republic's counteroffensive fleets in trap. At Telsia Minor, the smaller star of a binary star system near the Ailon homeworld, the Ailon Nova Guard waited in ambush of the republic fleet and the Gilagimar.

Battle of Telsia Minor
The battle of Telsia Minor came as a surprise to republic strategists as they had assumed the ailons were broken after their assault of the Republic. Admiral Kator ordered the fleet to advance through the highly irradiated star system with very little caution. Captain Iscandar, who had experienced an Ailon ambush once before, urged the Admiral to be aware. Despite this a massive Ailon fleet came out from behind the star and attacked the Imperiled republic fleet from behind and from their flank. Admiral Kator ordered the fleet to try to pull back from the star and regroup to face the enemy, but the Ailons soon deployed assault fighters that started harassing an destroying the Republic ships. In the resulting chaos, Admiral Kator was killed by a direct Pressure Bomb hit to the bridge. Iscandar, now struggling to take control of the fleet, ordered as many ships as he could to consolidate on the Republic's left flank and try to do a counter-assault as the Ailon ships charged the center of the Republic fleet. Iscandar's plan did not come to pass however, when Ailon reinforcements were drawn up from the Homeworld guard. Now all surviving ships from the Republic left flank attempted to cluster to protect the Gilagimar, however, Iscandar ordered the Gilagimar to break off from the Republic Fleet and flee the battlefield, along with as many ships as could follow his. The Gilagimar attempted to flee, it was strafed by assault fighters that, under sustained barrage, knocked out the engines, several Ailon capital ships followed up the assault, computer control was knocked offline and the self destruct was disabled. Iscandar was left with no other choice than to surrender.

Second Ailon control
The victorious Ailon fleet towed the Gilagimar back to their homeworld with all of her surviving crew as prisoners. The crew, Including Victor Iscandar, was then interrogated forcefully for a variety of information including an explanation of what had happened to the Ailon task force sent find Lehon. It was during this time that Iscandar started to feel discontented with the way the Republic had been handling their foreign diplomacy and he began to conspire to make a deal with his Ailon captors. One of those whom Iscandar started making secret dealings with was Terral Chi'thiac, who had her own ambitious plans. Iscandar struck a deal with Chi'thiac in which she would release his crew and help in coup against the Republic senate, and as part of this plan Chi'thiac would need command of the Gilagimar, for this reason Chi'thiac used her influence in the High command to take direct control of the Gilagimar and use it as her personal ship. Iscandar was also making a similar deal to gain power with the Ailon Government, neither party knew that Iscandar intended to double-cross them both.

Terral Chi'thiac's control
With the Ailon-Republic war having ended with a status quo ante bellum, the Gilagimar, still under Terral Chi'thiac's control arrived to coruscant under a flag of truce to release the gilagimar crew. As soon as he arrives on the surface, Iscandar begins meeting with several important Republic defense commanders and offering funds to recruit them to his cause

Design and Capabilities
The Gilagimar was in many ways technologically ahead of its time with significant design improvements over other contemporary ships in areas such as engines and shields. It is unknown how the Killiks gained the knowledge of many of these advanced technologies to incorporate into the ship (This section is incomplete and will be expanded)