Cathetus II

The Cathetus II, also called Red Runner, was a Charger-c70-class spaceship of the Consular-type in the fleet of the Galactic Republic.

Red Runner

History
After the beginning of the clone wars 22 BBY the jedi council demanded the jedi-knight Delian Karash to stop his "search after a ghost", because the republic needed his abilities on the battlefield.

But a few days later the jedi could proof that revealing the secret of the Forgotten Jedi could decide the war. The jedi council was convinced enough to not let him do his mission, they gave him a cruiser of the fleet: the Cathetus II. Or Red Runner as Karash named it.

Das Schiff wurde viel für die Suche nach dem Verschollenen Jedi verwendet, doch da dies nicht alles war, womit sich Karash beschäftigte, kämpfte es auch so einige Schlachten.

While it was used a lot for the search, that wasn't the only mission of the ship. So it also fought many battles.

During the Order 66 the Red Runner was on Nar Shadaa, where Delian Karash was in negotiations with the hutt Zagglor on behalf of the republic. Chancellor Palpatine instructet him personally to take his soldiers with him to demonstrate military presence, but the jedi went alone. In the middle of the negotiations Karash felt that something is wrong so he postponed the went back to the hangar where he was awaited by blasterfire. But as he expected bad things, he could fight off the ambush and killed Clay, Dust, Dura, Panda, Eye and Trace. In the ship he found the body of Stanton Dale with a holocom in his hand.

With the droids on board he could fly the ship, but his way wasn't long. Karash decided to start a new life and leave anything behind to not tracked down by the new empire and get killed. So he selled the Red Runner to the trader Grakosh Pekkr on Nar Shadaa together with the memory-deleted droids except R2-M8. Karash couldn't bring it over to sell this droid but he also couldn't keep him. So he deactivated an hided M8 to come back someday.

What happend after this with the Red Runner is unknown.

Crew
The Cathetus II was under direct command of the jedi-knight Delian Karash since jedis had military command power during the Clone Wars. But he did'nt liked the name so he called the ship "Red Runner" similar to his blue-colored starfighters "Blue Bolt" and "Blue Bane". After some time the crew adopted this name too.

Pilot was the clone CT-3150, called Eye, while assisted by the copilot CT-3154, called Trace. In addition the ship was defended by four infantrymen: CT-6092 "Clay", CT-6091 "Dust", CT-6095 "Dura" and CT-6112 "Panda".

Technical assistance the ship got from his many astromechdroids, especially R2-M8 and R3-A4. M8 was the personal Astromechdroid of Karash and assisted him already on his both starfighters. Also on board was the protocoll droid TC-23, who proved more than one time how indispensable he was.

The last crewmember was Stanton Dale, a historian from Coruscant, who supported the jedi on his search.