What Starship would you want to 'really' have?

Karmic Knight · Post by **Karmic Knight** » 2007-04-04 06:28pm

Good Point. I forgot the repair costs and thought of parking in orbit and having the buyer geting his cargo to cut down on parking fees. Of course a TradeFed ship coulb be turned into a smaller Errant Venture. The Droids merely meant I didn't need to go to every spaceport looking for hires convinece in locating and securing not maintenance.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2007-04-04 06:29pm

Karmic Knight wrote:Good Point. I forgot the repair costs and thought of parking in orbit and having the buyer geting his cargo to cut down on parking fees. Of course a TradeFed ship coulb be turned into a smaller Errant Venture. The Droids merely meant I didn't need to go to every spaceport looking for hires convinece in locating and securing not maintenance.

Trade Fed ships are significantly larger than ISDs like the Errant Venture.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-04-04 06:32pm

Lamda class shuttle, hire myself out ferrying people from one world to the next and maybe light cargo.

Karmic Knight · Post by **Karmic Knight** » 2007-04-04 06:34pm

I meant in terms of interior space one of the two hangers for cargo the other for gambiling and other fun.

But You are right.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2007-04-04 06:52pm

Corellian Corvette. Not the fastest of ships, but they have a decent turn of speed, plus they seem to be designed to be flexible. You could operate as a privateer, a small passenger ship, cargo to a certain extent, they seem to be fairly adaptable.

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2007-04-04 07:35pm

Eclipse. Then I'd sell it and be rich for the rest of my life.

But, if I actually had to use it for work... Corellian gunship. I'd make it a tour ship for the really wealthy, and get into dangerous, exotic, exciting places for a nominal fee. Maybe run some cargo.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2007-04-04 09:20pm

YT-2000. Get a four man crew, and we'd be set. Use it for courier, and cargo hauling.

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2007-04-04 11:01pm

The Wild Karrde would be a sweet ship to inherit. Got cargo capacity for legit or smuggling work, equipment for deepspace salvage work, and three turbolasers that can pack a punch if needed. Plus who knows what sort of nifty gadgets and gizmos are on there to aid in the collection of information while remaining undetected.

Darth Ruinus · Post by **Darth Ruinus** » 2007-04-04 11:12pm

im surprised no one has said the Slave 1

so i pick the Slave 1 and use it like any pirate or bounty hunter would

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2007-04-04 11:49pm

Bounty Hunting is too dangeours...

A fully outfited Action VI transport would be a great place to start. It has a very reasonable cargo capcity, and more then enough to be converted for Passenger use as well for paying customers.

The Wild Karrde Has already been mentioned a number of times, so I won't me-too it, but even a Standard Action VI Would do well with some additional defenses.

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2007-04-05 12:31am

I'd take a souped up Cloakshape and do stuff like courier and small packages. It's a durable fighter, making repairs a more uncommon occurance. It is also a common ship, which allows for easily obtainable parts when it does break, and makes it less conspicuous.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-04-05 04:25am

Some kind a courier that's small enough to be run by one or two people, gets good mileage, with plenty of cheap parts and qualified technicians. Probably a YT series. You can do cargo or passenger runs in a fairly safe part of the galaxy, maybe upgrade to something bigger a few years down the line.

Getting a warship and becoming a pirate is just asking for trouble.

Or if the crew requirements are light enough and the modifications are affordable, a late-model Action series converted into a passenger liner. That'd be cool.

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2007-04-05 05:49am

I'd take the Sith Infiltrator. I don't need a crew, and it's capabilities give me a wide range of money making opportunities.

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2007-04-05 02:21pm

Bounty wrote:Some kind a courier that's small enough to be run by one or two people, gets good mileage, with plenty of cheap parts and qualified technicians. Probably a YT series. You can do cargo or passenger runs in a fairly safe part of the galaxy, maybe upgrade to something bigger a few years down the line.

My thoughts as well. I would say the Outrider (or another YT-2400). Smaller than most of the YT type ships, and newer than the larger YT-1300

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » 2007-04-05 02:25pm

I'm partial to the Ebon Hawk. If I could add toilets and a shower it'd be perfect.

Golan III · Post by **Golan III** » 2007-04-05 02:26pm

Get an Interdictor, and go Pirate...it has hangar bays for starfighters and shuttle and assault-craft, a fairly decent offensive capability (at least on par with a light cruiser), it's a big-ish ship (but not too big), and you can hold down any of your prey you'd want to hit, or hyper out if a convoy has more protection than you can chew on.

Of course, I'm running off of my experience from the X-Wing/TIE games, which have the Interdictor as basically a modified VSD - similar size, but smaller overall firepower. Plenty for most freighters though.

If I had to go as a freight guy, most of the Corellian YT-series seem to be the way to go. Yeah normal freighters carry quite a bit more and are far more profitable, but the galaxy's a dangerous place, and there's something to be said about speed/maneuverability/firepower...rather than being a sitting duck.

If I had to have a large freighter, I'd only want a Star Galleon...

Tiriol · Post by **Tiriol** » 2007-04-05 03:25pm

I'd like to have a Corellian corvette, although ISD or even an Executor-class star dreadnought would also be nice (but all too big, in the end - they're warships, after all).

One thing about the Corellian corvette: a comic (I don't remember the name, I'll check it out as soon as I can) showed that Chewbacca and Han could pilot one (or actually, many, as it turned out - they were smuggling corvettes) of those things without any additional help.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2007-04-05 04:36pm

It's a tough call between a YT-1930 and YT-2000. The -1930 boasts a good cargo capacity and can carry a decent amount of passengers, but the -2000 is more heavily armed (at least in stock configuration).

I'd probably go for YT-1930 though (Wookieepedia). It looks cool, has a lot of cargo space I could use for any number of things, and I'm sure the shielding, weaponry, engines, etc. are all upgradeable if I can make enough money.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2007-04-05 05:44pm

I'd just get a small freighter Millenium Falcon style and haul cargo for an honest living. Unlike a lot of you guys I wouldn't go down the pirate route because pirates generally have short life spans. You should also take into account that the bigger your pirate vessel the larger the chance of a mutiny, and the faster the Empire will track you down and destroy you.

Aquatain · Post by **Aquatain** » 2007-04-05 07:39pm

KhyronTheBackstabber wrote:I'd take the Sith Infiltrator. I don't need a crew, and it's capabilities give me a wide range of money making opportunities.

That gotta be the ultimate pirate ship.

Warsie · Post by **Warsie** » 2007-04-05 10:39pm

Crossroads Inc. wrote:Where are you going to get the tens of thousands needed to crew it?

Member its only you and the ship at first.

Heh....you got me there, but considering how Booster Terrik was able to heavily downsize the crew, maybe we could recruit from outer rim worlds....or depending on the era, form a partnership with the Alliance.

EDIT: and as others said, sell the ship.

EDIT 2: If it is unrealistic (and yes, it likely is

) one of the Corellian YT-series freighters or a Corellian Corvette/Gunship.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-04-06 03:38am

To those people who want a huuuuge warship: how, exactly, are you going to recruit a crew*, keep them from committing mutiny, keep the Imperials/whoever runs the place in your end of the galaxy off your back, or even fuel the damn thing? A single guy sitting on a Star Destroyer might as well have no Star Destroyer at all.

*It's all well and good saying you'll "get them from the Outer Rim", but then you'd end up on a ship with five thousand grumpy outlaws. There's a lot of hard vacuum where they can dump the newbie...

One thing about the Corellian corvette: a comic (I don't remember the name, I'll check it out as soon as I can) showed that Chewbacca and Han could pilot one (or actually, many, as it turned out - they were smuggling corvettes) of those things without any additional help.

I'm sure a single person can 'pilot' a modern supertanker for a few hours, but that doesn't mean they can run it efficiently. The bigger your ship is, the more maintenance and attention it needs. And what happens when you need to fix a problem that requires three or more people to coordinate their efforts in different parts of the ship?

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2007-04-06 03:42am

Seriously, I'd go with a scaled-down un-weaponized version of the World Devastator and be a one-man Vogon Constructor fleet. Then I'd hire the whole lot of you schmucks to go around and distribute my products!

Or I'd get one of the fancy shiny yachts used by Padme and go around providing transportation for rich fancy people. Space limo!

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2007-04-06 07:59am

Invictus ChiKen wrote:The Ebon Hawk!

Passengers, convoy escort, cargo transportation, search and rescue.

You name it!

Dude there is no toilet on that ship. You would have to stop every 5-6 hours to take a bathroom break.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2007-04-06 08:20am

Or, buy a lifetime supply of Star Wars-tech space diapers?