During the last days of the Republic, this modified KSE Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft belonged to Jango Fett, a feared bounty hunter based on Kamino. As part of his compensation for donating his genetic material to the Kaminoans, Jango received an unaltered clone of himself, whom he raised as a son named Boba.

Obi-Wan Kenobi’s investigation of the attempted assassination of Padmé Amidala led him to Kamino, where he tried to apprehend Jango and bring him to Coruscant for questioning. Jango and Obi-Wan battled in a driving rain, with Boba firing the craft's laser cannons at the Jedi.

Jango and Boba fled in the ship, but not before Obi-Wan hurled a tracker that affixed itself to the craft's hull. Obi-Wan then followed the Fetts through hyperspace to the Geonosis system.

The craft's sensors detected the pursuer, and Jango decided to turn the tables on the Jedi. Dropping behind Obi-Wan’s starfighter, Jango opened up with laser blasts and seismic charges. Obi-Wan barely avoided destruction, watching as the ship descended to the planet below.

After Mace Windu killed Jango on Geonosis, Boba took the ship and learned the bounty-hunting trade from Aurra Sing. Assuming the identity of “Lucky,” a clone cadet, he sought to avenge his father by killing Windu aboard the Republic cruiser Endurance. His attack crippled the Endurance, but Windu escaped – as did Boba, fleeing in an escape pod with other cadets.

Boba had a Plan B, leaving a bomb in his father’s Mandalorian helmet. The blast caught Windu and Anakin Skywalker on the bridge of the Endurance, which had crashed on Vanqor. Watching from afar, Boba saw the explosion – but refused to leave the planet without verifying that Windu had been killed.

Trapped in the wreckage of the Endurance’s bridge, Anakin and Mace told R2-D2 to take one of the Jedi starfighters and return to Coruscant for help. The bounty hunters spotted the fleeing fighter and pursued it, assuming Windu was aboard.

The Jedi starfighter escaped. But Aurra Sing saw another way for Jango’s son to get his revenge on the Jedi – after all, they still had Republic hostages.

The Jedi rescued Anakin and Mace, bringing them back to Coruscant to recuperate. There, they received a harrowing message from Aurra, ordering Mace to face Boba. Aurra then executed Commander Ponds, one of the hunters’ three hostages.

Aurra piloted Boba's ship to Florrum, where the hunters sought refuge with the pirate boss Hondo Ohnaka. Hondo allowed them to stay, but warned he wouldn’t get involved in their quarrel with the Jedi.

After Plo Koon and Ahsoka Tano caught up with the hunters, Aurra deserted Boba, fleeing in his ship. Ahsoka pursued her and sliced off one of the craft’s stabilizers, causing it to crash. The Jedi then took Boba and Bossk into Republic custody.

Hondo Ohnaka rebuilt the ship and added it to a collection of ships he kept in a secret hangar on Florrum. When General Grievous invaded the pirate boss’s base, Hondo decided to flee in the Fetts’ old ship, but was persuaded to stay and fight by the Jedi youngling Katooni.

The ship arrived just in time to save Ahsoka and the other younglings from Grievous. Hondo then piloted the ship to a rendezvous with a Republic task force.

Boba Fett later reclaimed his father’s ship, which became infamous among fugitives from justice. When Fett joined Darth Vader’s hunt for Han Solo, he figured out how Solo had escaped from the Star Destroyer Avenger. When the Millennium Falcon began the long journey from Anoat to Bespin, Fett was lurking nearby.

Fett revealed the Falcon’s location to Darth Vader, whose troops captured Solo and his fellow rebels on Cloud City. After Vader ordered Solo entombed in carbonite, Fett had the frozen smuggler taken to his ship for transport to Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine. Leia Organa, Chewbacca and Han Solo arrived too late to stop Fett from vanishing into Bespin’s skies.