The Gozanti-class cruisers owned by the Separatist Alliance were modified for their own combat use. As such, the cruisers were painted in Separatist livery and had two sublight engines. Similar to the standard civilian model manufactured by Corellian Engineering Corporation, the Separatist version had one dorsal and two ventral rectennas, as well as landing gear, and a ventral twin laser cannon turret.
The Gozanti-class cruiser had been introduced into the Confederacy of Independent Systems Navy by 20 BBY. At this time, during the Clone Wars between the Separatists and Galactic Republic, at least eight Separatist Gozanti-class cruisers formed part of a Separatist fleet led by the ST-series military strategic analysis and tactics droid Aut-O. Afterwards, a number of Separatist Gozanti-class cruisers were also present on Oba Diah while Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker dueled Separatist Head of State Count Dooku, secretly the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Tyranus while on a mission.
During a mission to Utapau by Kenobi and Skywalker later in the war, several Separatist Gozanti-class cruisers were landed inside the main hangar of a Separatist Providence-class Dreadnought that was part of a fleet led by Supreme Commander of the Droid Army General Grievous. The cruisers, along with the rest of the fleet, was destroyed when a large kyber crystal inside a Dual Hemisphere-Omni Support Vessel exploded. During the war, the Republic Navy was always placed on high alert when Gozanti-class cruisers were spotted because the Confederacy and the Black Sun crime syndicate modified many such cruisers to serve as warships and smuggling vessels.
The Separatist Gozanti-class cruiser first appeared in "Secret Weapons," an episode of the fifth season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series.
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