Star Wars - Corellian Engineering Corporation YT-2400 Freighter "Outrider"
            from "Shadows of the Empire"

This is an Reflections model based on the book "The Essential
Guide to Vehicles and Vessels" by Bill Smith.  It is to scale.

"Dash Rendar is a cocky smuggler who, despite his abrasive and mercenary 
personality, aids the Rebel
Alliance in the fight to overthrow the Empire.  Dash flew with the Rebels at the Battle 
of Hoth and
uses his ship, the Outrider, as a smuggling and courier vessel for Rebel missions.

The Outrider is an ebony Corellian YT-2400 freighter converted for smuggling duty.  
The ship features
the trademark saucer-shaped hull of the YT series, but it is a more modern YT-2400 
(as opposed to the
older YT-1300's, such as the Millennium Falcon).  This newer ship is like most 
Corellian designs;
fast, tough, and endlessly modifiable.

With thick armor plating and bulky engines, the YT-2400 can easily handle the strain 
of deep-space
combat.  The vessel has power to spare and an oversize hull begging for hot-rodded 
engines and
powerful weapons; it's obvious that when the Corellian Engineering Corporation sold 
this ship as a
"stock cargo hauler" it was with a wink and a grin.

Dash being a typical smuggler, decided to take advantage of the YT-2400's 
adaptability.  His first
step was to replace the engines with three stolen KonGar KGDefender military-grade 
ion engines.  A
modified SoroSuub Griffyn/Y2TG hypderdrive gives the Outrider a Class 0.75 
hyperspace speed rating -
slower than the Millennium Falcon's Class 0.50 hyperdrive but far faster than most 
military vessels,
which are either class One or Class Two.  Powerful shield generators and a highly 
illegal sensor
stealth system make the Outrider a perfect smuggling ship.

A pair of heavy Dymek double laser cannons, personally modified by Dash for 
greater range, are
dorsal and ventral mounted on standard Corellian 1D servo turrets.  They normally 
are manned but can
be controlled via the targeting computer in the cockpit, although accuracy is than 
significantly
reduced.  Two forward-firing concussion missile launchers are mounted on the 
cockpit tube and have a
magazine of three missiles each."
(p.32 "Star Wars - The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels" by Bill Smith)

Other vehicles I've modelled include:

Star Destroyer
Shuttle Tydirium
Millennium Falcon
Rebel Frigate
X-wing
Y-wing
TIE fighter
TIE Interceptor
B-wing
Emperor's Fortress


Klingon Bird of Prey
USS Defiant

Future projects:
Vehicles in "The Essential Guide..."
USS Voyager
Klingon Vor'cha class cruiser


I can be reached at  rbublitz@datanet.ab.ca

All Star Wars names copyright Lucasfilm Ltd.
All Star Trek names copyright Paramount Pictures Corp.
June 1996

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