Slave I is a spacecraft in the Star Wars universe. It first appears in the film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back under the command of bounty hunter Boba Fett (Jeremy Bulloch), and then in the prequel film Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones commanded by Jango Fett (Temuera Morrison). Slave I also appears in numerous Star Wars Expanded Universe books, comics, and video games; toys and models of the craft have been made by a variety of merchandising licensees.
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The ship's design is said to resemble the shape of a street lamp.[1] However, the actual inspiration for the shape of the ship was a radar dish according to Nilo Rodis-Jamero, the assistant art director and visual effects creator on The Empire Strikes Back. Rodis-Jamero created the initial design after seeing Joe Johnston's ideas for Boba Fett and states that "the original design I had was round, but when you looked at it from the side, it became elliptical...George [Lucas] thought it was elliptical, so that's what it became." He goes on to say that "[w]hen building the ship at ILM, someone looked at the street lamps and pointed out that they looked like Boba's ship. So everyone began to think that was where I got the idea for the design."[2] Its appearance in the original release of The Empire Strikes Back was realized by a combination of matte paintings and a 69-centimeter model.[3]
Slave I is an antiquated Kuat Systems Engineering Firespray-interceptor-class ship;[4] both Jango Fett and Boba Fett modified and upgraded the ship's engines, weapons, and defenses.[4]
The video game Star Wars: Bounty Hunter depicts Jango Fett's theft of Slave I.
Jango and his clone, Boba, escape Kamino aboard the Slave I in Attack of the Clones. However, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) tracks the ship to Geonosis, site of the film's climactic battle.
In The Empire Strikes Back, Boba Fett tracks and then departs Bespin with a now carbonite-imprisoned Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in his cargo hold.
In other material, the Rebel Alliance impounded the ship after Boba Fett's supposed death in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi; Fett later recovered the ship, flying the Slave II until Slave I's refit was complete.[4]
Kenner, Hasbro, Code 3 Collectibles, and Galoob have created Slave I toys and replicas.[5][6][7][8][9] Lego released Slave I models, one with Jango Fett's color schemes and two with Boba Fett's color schemes, with a third to be released in 2010.[10][11] Slave I is an unlockable and pilotable craft in LucasArts' Rogue Squadron flight simulators, and the ship is controllable in the Star Wars: Empire at War real-time strategy game. Decipher and Wizards of the Coast published several Slave I cards as part of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game and Star Wars Trading Card Game, respectively.[12][13] Lego created several models of Slave I, from both of the films it has appeared in.[14]
Hasbro toy designer Aaron Archer claimed at BotCon 2004 that the Transformers: Universe Depthcharge toy's color scheme was meant to resemble Slave-1. Years later Hasbro released a Transformer that actually turned from Boba Fett into Slave-1.
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