The Great Narrator
Character
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Affiliation: Open Market
Manufacturer: Gallofree Yards, Inc
Model: "Kiyiy" or "Junk" Model GR-75 Medium Transport
Modularity: Yes
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Hydroformed Permacrete, Durasteel, Glasteel,
Classification: Medium Transport
Length: 90 Meters
Width: 35 Meters
Height: 20 Meters
Armament: 5 (light weapons)
Defenses: 10 (typical defense)
Hangar: NA
Special Features:
*Interior entirely open for cargo pods
*Magnetic shield locks modules in place
Maneuverability Rating: 9
Speed Rating: 9
Hyperdrive Class: Class 4 with (Class 12 backup)
Strengths:
*Dirt cheap: With its' entire internal systems, engines, and weapons being made up of nothing but salvaged and reconditioned parts the only real costs of the ship are in the construction of the hull and labor to install parts.
*Modular: With its' ramshackle design just about every part of the ship can be changed out or upgraded.
*Low Crew requirements: A carry-over of its' predecessors is that it is easy to fly and requires little to no crew.
*Tough to Scan: Designed blocks cargo scanners per canon, making it tough to find contraband.
Weaknesses:
*Patchwork: Nothing on this ship is designed to work together as it is all salvaged from other ships. As such constant maintenance is needed to keep it operational.
*Slow for size: Though it is only 90 meters long it has speed and agility of a ship 4x's its' size.
*Not well armed: Weapons on this ship are an after though and usually nothing more than a few laser cannons added for show.
*No Nav computer: Ship relies on astromechs when traveling through hyperspace.
Description: The Model GR-75 Medium Transport "Kiyiy" (or Junk in Ryl), as the first attempt by Gallofree Yards, Inc to get back into the shipwright market. Leaning on their historically most popular model its' design borrows heavily from the original. Among many of the characteristics it shares is the transport's outer hull is still like a thick shell with the interior entirely open for cargo pods. The outer shell is built on a Durasteel frame structure and is composed of interlocking Hydroformed Permacrete plates that are cheap to manufacture and replace. This design also has the added advantage of making the hull much thicker than the original GR-75 allowing it to better block out cargo scanners and absorb more damage when attacked. However, this comes at a price as the increased weight of the material make the already poor handling characteristics even worse.
When dealing with it primary role as a cargo transport the open-space design could fit up to 19,000 metric tons of cargo into the 90-meter long ship. Modular cargo pods greatly sped up the loading and unloading process. When the transport was at its cargo capacity, a magnetic shield locked the modules in place, while at the same time kept out the vacuum of space. This shield also worked as a partial deflector shield and aids in the ships defensive rating.
All other systems on this ship are salvage from other ships that were either purchased or acquired by Gallofree Yards, Inc. For instance, depending on the time of construction a "Kiyiy" GR-75 could have multiple parts from multiple manufacturers. Build to be cost effective the "Kiyiy" offers little in the way of crew comforts, space, or even basics. The system installed are also of a stripped down nature as so it only had backups for the hyperdrive, life-support, and sublight engines. This ramshackle construction method meant that all the ships of this line are unique in one fashion or another and it was rare for any two would be built with the same parts. Each ship is practically hand build and will have qualities that make it unique to its' sister ships.
This construction method also keeps costs to an insanely low minimum. Depending on what parts are installed into the ships of this line, Gallofree Yards, Inc can still sell these at a profit for under six figures making it nearly impossible for any other manufacturer to come close to their cost per metric ton ratio. This was to be this line's main selling point and it is now being marketed to freelance cargo companies and smugglers that need to move high volumes of cargo at a low price.
Development Thread: NA
Minium Crew: (2) + (1) astromech
Optimal Crew: (6) + (1) gunner + (1) astromech
Passengers: 90 max
Cargo capacity: 19,000 metric tons
Consumables: 6 months
Intent: Create a junk model of the GR-75 Medium transport, a canon ship for this company.
Who Can Use This: Open market
Primary Source: Canon - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/GR-75_medium_transport/Legends
