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Slave I:
Boba Fett's ship is an intricate piece of pesonally customized technology built around a relatively obscure and somewhat outdated starship design. Very little remains of the original model, the Firespray-3, an early Kuat design which had a very brief production run some standard years ago. Very few of these almost unique vessels can be found traveling the space lanes today. When you do find one, it is likely to be as highly modified as Slave I.
The Firespray has become somewhat of a specialty craft with smugglers and gun runners, since it is easily stripped down for pure speed and stealth. Two-thirds of the ship's total hull area is dedicated solely to the engines, which accounts for its speed and also for its initial lack of popularity, since there is not much room in the vessel for much of any thing else. This is particularly true of Slave I, which has been, over the years, almost completely stripped down and retooled by Boba Fett.
The outer hull of the vessel has been given a good amount of reinforcement plating and contact ray shielding, which to a large degree makes up for the ship's overall lack of adequate deflector shielding. Only a pair of twinmounted blaster cannons are visible on the ship's exterior hull but several eye-witnesses corroborate stories about other weapons, which are supposedly concealed beneath the added outer plating. It was particularly difficult to find eye-witnesses, as Fett is generally rather efficient with this kind of "loose end," but legends talk of a pair of Droxine freight haulers who saw Fett immobilize a much larger vessel using a relatively small yet obviously sufficient, concealed ion cannon.
In addition to this verbal evidence of the ion cannon are several other, less-reliable stories of space-to-ground concussion missiles and a remarkably powerful tractor beam. What is definitely known is that Fett uses homing beacons which are mounted onto dummy proton torpedoes in order to track his prey. The torpedo itself does nothing more than penetrate the target vessel's deflector shield, while the homing beacon attaches itself magnetically to the target vessel's hull. Fett can then track the target ship when it returns from hyperspace to normal space, using a universal transceiver implanted in his cockpit's control panel. The ship's engines have been boosted to give Slave I a remarkable initial sublight thrust. While this ability does sacrifice some of the ship's overall maneuverability Fett undoubtedly opted for this modification because it allows him to get close enough to his victims to use any of his immobilization techniques before the victims have a chance to escape. Slave I's hyperspace capabilities are rather impressive as well. The ship's hyperdrive was given particularly special attention by Fett due to the fact that he is often called upon to 'head of off' his quarry, arriving at a prescribed destination before a target vessel.
Most of this remarkable ship's stealth comes from a highly sophisticated sensor-jamming array built in to the vessel's hull. The hull itself is magnetically polarized, and acts as an antenna for any and all electronic signals and pulses within a 100 kilometer range of the ship. These magnetically attracted pulses of power tend to jam and scramble enemy sensor scans, reading usually as some sort of ion storm rather than as a starship. In addition to this Fett has dampened Slave I's particle vapor trail, so as to make the ship nearly untraceable. No one is certain of this fact, but the cargo hold of Slave I has been rumored to have been converted into a top-security holding area, complete with force-cages and hull reinforcements. Knowing Boba Fett the ships interior is probably as replete with concealed weapons and equipment as is its owner. Unfortunately, very few survive to tell of the ship's exterior, let alone the interior. Prisoners brought aboard by Fett are usually unconscious or made so specifically to keep them from observing any of the ships hidden equiqment and capabilities. All-in-all, the Slave I is a highly effective and efficient craft perfectly suited to its owner. The ship is as infamous as Boba Fett himself.