Built by Sienar Fleet Systems, the Rogue Shadow‘s design was based on the Scimitar, Darth Maul’s Sith Infiltrator. It also shared certain design elements with other Imperial craft, such as the Eta-2 interceptor and the starfighters of the TIE series. Designed and built in secret, all of the personnel and droids involved in the Rogue Shadow’s construction were killed, thus ensuring their silence, while the causes of their deaths were described as “industrial accidents” and street crimes.

The Rogue Shadow boasted an advanced hyperdrive, cutting-edge sensory arrays, a fully functional medical bay, crew quarters, a workshop and a meditation chamber that could double as a training room. It also had the fastest sublight drives in the Imperial Navy. In addition to these high tech features, the Rogue Shadow was outfitted with an experimental cloaking device that enabled the vessel to hide from even the most powerful scanners for short periods of time. Its cloaking technology was powered by a rare stygium crystal, a form of lightsaber crystal from the Dreighton Nebula that could warp perceptions around it.