Chapter 6

“180,000 Republic credits?” Max scratched his head. “For a little thing like this, you’re charging 180k?”

“Commander Vizsla, the smaller a starfighter’s profile, the bigger its edge in a dogfight,” explained Mankveem, chief engineer at Feethan Ottraw Scalable Assemblies. “The Belbullab-22 has everything it needs—this is our flagship product, built to compete head-on with other companies’ heavy fighters!”

The Belbullab-22 starfighter was only 6.71 meters long. Small frame, full system suite: it integrated two triple laser cannons, a propulsion package composed of two sublight ion engines plus a Class 6 hyperdrive and a Class 15 backup hyperdrive, and a deflector shield generator.