What, if any ST ship designs could the Empire use?

[El Moose Monstero]

A D'deridex would make a nice pleasure yacht. If it were refitted with an imperial grade cloaking device it would be even better.

I thought it said in the Zahn trilogy that a cloaking device blinds the sensors of the crew on board? Or is that contradicted elsewhere? If I had a Romulan Warbird as a luxury yacht, then I'd want to be knowing what was going on outside, maybe I'd just stick with the Reman cloak, it may be detectable by SW sensors, but it's better than the standard Romulan one. Especially as if its a pleasure yacht, then you arent going to be looking for a fight and are unlikely to run across anyone who's actively scanning for cloaked ships.

[Jawawithagun]

Oh, here's one...

Borg cubes for Jawas.

I SO agree!

And I'm sure we can sell the Borg as cheap workers for those who don't want their droids completely mechanical. Though, we may have to rid them of their nasty habit of assimilating everything first.

[TurboPhaser]

Oh, here's one...

Borg cubes for Jawas.

I SO agree!

And I'm sure we can sell the Borg as cheap workers for those who don't want their droids completely mechanical. Though, we may have to rid them of their nasty habit of assimilating everything first.

Hehe, yeah. I picture it so.....

Jawa 1: We got a new shipment of cyber droids last night!
Jawa 2: Yeah? Where are they?
Jawa 1: In the droid repair room.
Jawa 2: Lets go look!
Jawa 1: One thing though, they guy who sold me them said there some 'bugs' that needed to be sorted out.
Jawa 2: Shouldnt be too difficult.
Jawa 1: Here we are.
(They look through viewport at utter chaos, robots running around with grey metal spreading over their circuit ports, other aliens screaming and pounding on the door until a few hands grab from behind and drag them into the smoke and debris)
Jawa 2: Woah, you said bugs?!?
Jawa 1: Maybe he said nanoprobes.............

[StarshipTitanic]

They're junk, the lot of them. A few might become museum pieces in the same way American museums keep native tomahawks and arrowheads on display, a few others might get bought by collectors, but that's the extent of the use the SW galaxy would have for them besides target drones, and frankly, they may not even be worth the expense of hauling back through the wormhole.

The only use they'd have would be if the Empire chose to keep the Milky Way powers as vassal states rather than outright annexing them. Then you could probably stick some Imperial technology on them (not much, and certainly nothing like a hypermatter reactor--imaging trying to retrofit a Viking longboat with a modern gas turbine engine) and keep them around for patrols and the like, until the vassals get some genuine Imperial-technology starships to replace thier fleets. They wouldn't need much--a YT-1300 freighter with Milennium Falcon mods to the powerplant and weapons systems instead of cargo space would kick the shit out of practically anything in the Milky Way.

Actually, it could be better to keep the natives using their old ships. Keep them in line, etc. If you prohibit them from building new ships then they might not even war too much for fear of trashing their entire fleet.

[jegs2]

If you could retrofit an Intrepid class starship with hyperdrive, it would make a pretty nice luxury yacht with enough defensive armament to fight off all the best-equipped pirate groups.

Other than that, I dunno.

Ah, that leads one to wonder: What would SW "ocean liners" look like? Mon Calamari cruisers are supposed to be refitted liners, aren't they?

[NecronLord]

I thought it said in the Zahn trilogy that a cloaking device blinds the sensors of the crew on board? Or is that contradicted elsewhere? If I had a Romulan Warbird as a luxury yacht, then I'd want to be knowing what was going on outside, maybe I'd just stick with the Reman cloak, it may be detectable by SW sensors, but it's better than the standard Romulan one. Especially as if its a pleasure yacht, then you arent going to be looking for a fight and are unlikely to run across anyone who's actively scanning for cloaked ships.

Darth Maul was able to fly around Coruscant while cloaked, so yes, it's contradicted by canon.

Park it in the middle of nowhere and enjoy the holodecks while you are undisturbed by anyone....

[YT300000]

I thought it said in the Zahn trilogy that a cloaking device blinds the sensors of the crew on board? Or is that contradicted elsewhere? If I had a Romulan Warbird as a luxury yacht, then I'd want to be knowing what was going on outside, maybe I'd just stick with the Reman cloak, it may be detectable by SW sensors, but it's better than the standard Romulan one. Especially as if its a pleasure yacht, then you arent going to be looking for a fight and are unlikely to run across anyone who's actively scanning for cloaked ships.

Darth Maul was able to fly around Coruscant while cloaked, so yes, it's contradicted by canon.

Park it in the middle of nowhere and enjoy the holodecks while you are undisturbed by anyone....

I think that there are multiple types of cloaking devices.

1. Cloaking shields. No light in, no light out. Undetectable except by CGT scans.
2. Sensor cloaks. Like the ones in XWvTF. Only block sensors, so you can see the cloaked thing.
3. Visual sensors. You can see outside. Other people can't see in. Can be detected by scans.
4. A combination of 2 and 3. Work like 1, but you can see outside.

I think the Sith Infiltrator had a 4 cloak.