YT-2400 light freighter
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| YT-2400 light freighter | |
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| Product line | |
| Model |
YT-2400 |
| Class | |
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| Technical specifications | |
| Length |
21 meters |
| Maximum speed (atmosphere) |
800 km/h |
| Hyperdrive rating |
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| Shielding |
Equipped |
| Navigation system |
Equipped |
| Armament |
Laser cannon turret (2) |
| Crew |
3 |
| Minimum crew |
1 |
| Passengers |
6 |
| Cargo capacity |
150 metric tons |
| Consumables |
2 months |
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| Affiliation |
Various |
The YT-2400 light freighter was a YT series light freighter produced by Corellian Engineering Corporation similar to the YT-1300.
Dash Rendar's Outrider was a heavily modified YT-2400 freighter, and perhaps the most famous example of the ship amongst fringers.
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[edit] Characteristics
It featured a saucer-shaped hull, similar to other YT series ships, and a starboard-mounted command pod. Stock YT-2400s were 21 meters in length, required two pilots, and were armed with a single laser cannon turret, although the ship was easily customized for modifications to the stock frame. Thus, the design was favored by mercenaries and smugglers, or any other being in need of a well-armed "transport".
The YT-2400 freighter was mainly used for smuggling duty. The ship featured the trademark saucer-shaped hull of the YT series, and, like most Corellian designs, was fast, tough, and endlessly modifiable.
With thick armor plating and bulky engines, the YT-2400 could easily handle the strain of deep-space combat. The vessel had power to spare and an oversize hull begging for hot-rodded engines and powerful weapons.
The YT-2400 featured a rounded hull with a pair of starboard bracing arms that connected to the cockpit compartment, which was essentially a long tube. The aft section of the cockpit tube contained the primary escape pod, which seated six. The bracing arm's interior space generally was used for crew quarters and living space.
The rounded hull area was devoted to cargo holds and ship's systems. In practice, much of the interior hull space was taken up by modified engines, power generators, weapons systems, and all the other illegal goodies any self-respecting smuggling ship needed. A second escape pod, as well as the airlock, was located on the far side of the cargo compartment, directly opposite the bracing arms.
By 137 ABY, the YT-2400 freighter was apparently still in use, as the Galactic Alliance Remnant utilized the Scarlet Star.
[edit] Known ships
[edit] Appearances
- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
- Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
- Rebel Dawn (Mentioned only)
- All the Extras
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Special Edition)
- Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan
- Star Wars: X-wing Alliance
- Shadows of the Empire novel (First appearance)
- Shadows of the Empire game
- Shadows of the Empire comic
- The Jabba Tape
- Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood
- Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (Mentioned only)
- Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
- Force Heretic II: Refugee (Mentioned only)
- Exile
- Inferno (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Legacy 20: Indomitable, Part 1
- Star Wars PocketModel TCG: Scum and Villainy
[edit] Sources
- The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
- The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
- Star Wars: Behind the Magic
- Stock Ships
- Star Wars: The Action Figure Archive
- Starships of the Galaxy (2001)
- Starships of the Galaxy (2007)
