Rescue crafts of the Sprint-class represented a type of swift starship employed by the Galactic Republic's Space Rescue Corps during the era of the Clone Wars against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. As one of the most frequently used starship types by the rescue corps, the Sprint-class was tasked with finding lost starships and survivors of space battles, as well as answering emergency signals. Larger-scale operations were typically the responsibility of the disc-hulled Corellian rescue frigate.
The initial mention of Sprint-class rescue crafts within the current Star Wars canon occurred in Rise of the Separatists, a 2019 addition to the Star Wars Roleplaying game series by Fantasy Flight Games. In the Star Wars Legends timeline, the Sprint-class rescue craft was originally featured in The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, a 1996 supplement for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. The starship's complete debut appearance was later in the fifth issue of the Star Wars: Obsession comic-book series, written by W. Haden Blackman, with illustrations by Brian Ching, and released by Dark Horse Comics on May 18, 2005.