Black Discoverer

Black Discoverer "The BDs were Chiss constructs - meaning Black Discoverer, meant to discover “the black,” or the rest of our universe. They’re small starships, about the size of TIE starfighters."

- Thrawn

The Black Discoverer, or BD, was a small produced by the Chiss Ascendancy's shipwright guild with the purpose of exploring the Intergalactic Void, or "the Black" as it is called by the. At some point, Sheev Palpatine became the owner of at least two ships, the BD-Deep and the BD-Saizor, which were based out of the Observatory on Lexicon.

Contact with the BD-Deep at some point before a group of New Republic individuals traveled to Lexicon, and a dispatch from the BD-Saizor reached the Observatory. The two s were keeping track of an threat which had reached a cluster of s called the Cesric Maze. The ships were approximately the size of a.