Approved Starship Starcrawler

[Gilamar Skirata]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: to create a nice looking bulk freighter for salvage use
• Image Source: "Jawa Spacecrawler" by Marthe Jonkers
• Canon Link: Jawa History, Endor Scavengers
• Primary Source: N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer: Maintained and sold by several small, private shipyards like Silvia Shipyards in the Outer Rim
• Affiliation: Open-Market
• Model: Starcrawler
• 
  Production: Minor
  
• Material:
  ​Durasteel
• Transparisteel
• Starship Materials

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Classification: Bulk Transport
• Length: 50 Meters
• Width: 15 Meters
• Height: 40 Meters
• Armament: None
• Defenses: Very High
• Hangar: None
• Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
• Speed Rating: Low
• Hyperdrive Class: Average: 1

STANDARD FEATURES

• This ship has all the standard features one would find in a starship
• Escape Pods

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• Material processor
• Magnetic Suction Tube
• Tractor Beams

Strengths:

• Huge Carry Capacity
• Thick Hull

Weaknesses:

• Prone to electrical failures
• No weapons
• Slow
• Turns real bad

Description: Commissioned a millennia ago by a long dead company after the battle of Endor, these ships were given to space faring Jawas in an unprecedented private scrapping job that would have been the largest private scavenging voyage in the last hundred years. Unfortunately these Jawas upon arriving to the Endor system betrayed their employer, voiding the contract and taking the large scavenger vessels for their own and became pirates within Endor's system. The ships were designed after the sandcrawlers many Jawas on Tatooine called home so as to make them more comfortable in space. They were equipped with powerful tractor beams that would pull heaps of scrap into the massive main compartment on the lower decks where the scrap could be sorted and placed on belts that fed into the ship's built in refiner. Melted down and compressed into ingots the metals could then be sold to a variety of buyers. Various small hatches and the magnetic suction tube was also used to collect particularly valuble items such as droids and fully intact starfighters and small ships.

A thousand years have gone by and these vessels can still be found today floating lazily through the thousands of ship graveyards that have popped up since the Gulag plague and the handful of wars since the Dark Ages. While many have become the home to roving clans of "Space Jawas", many also are home to legitimate scavengers. Several companies have tried to replicate the ship, but the technology was so old that any attempts to make a similar ship failed miserably. Instead, many private shipwrights like Silvia Shipyards instead purchase aging or near scrap Starcrawlers, repair them, and then sell them again while also offering repair services on the ships.

 

[Ria Misrani]

Under Review.

 

[Ria Misrani]

[member="Gilamar Skirata"]

If you could add in the hangar/squadron count per the template I would much appreciate it.

 

[Gilamar Skirata]

[member="Ria Misrani"] edited

 

[Ria Misrani]

Awesome. Pending Secondary Approval. Thanks! [member="Jamie Pyne"]

 

[Gir Quee]

Approved.