On Geonosis, the Ginivex-class fanblade starfighter was produced by the Geonosian Huppla Pasa Tisc Shipwrights Collective. Its extendable, retractable fan-shaped wings earned it the nickname "Fanblade" fighter.
The Geonosians' formidable industrial capability was fully reflected in this fighter.
It was a custom-built fighter with limited production, but exceptionally powerful performance. During atmospheric combat, its wings could be spread to achieve better aerodynamics. The wings, made from a unique energy-conducting material, could form a cycle with the fighter's own Deflector Shield when fully charged, granting the craft formidable sustained combat capability.
Moreover, in this state, the Ginivex-class starfighter's wings lived up to its nickname. They could slice through an enemy fighter's fuselage like sharp blades—if the pilot wished it. The energy-filled fan-shaped wings were practically indestructible. Conversely, little light weaponry could destroy them; sometimes even a warship's point-defense cannons needed several hits.
Its only drawback was that when its wings were extended and fully charged, the fighter glowed on radar screens like a lightbulb in the night.
After the Geonosians joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Count Dooku assigned every Fanblade fighter squadron to Asajj Ventress. Ventress and those squadrons had achieved impressive results across multiple battlefields.
This time, even though she had come alone, with the aid of her immensely powerful Dark Side Force and the Fanblade fighter's outstanding performance, she was practically unstoppable amid the chaotic aerial battlefield over Semirres Planet's Capital District!
On the battlefield, the modified CSS-1 heavy shuttle piloted by Durge was not particularly conspicuous. Since Semirian pilots could not fit into ordinary fighters, most of them also flew into battle aboard spacecraft. There were not many of them, but they did exist.
However, Ventress's Fanblade fighter's dazzling radar signature still drew quite a few Galactic Republic fighter formations toward it.
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