VCX-820 Escort Freighter

Craft: Corellian Engineering Corporation VCX-820 Escort Freighter
Type: Light Freighter
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 20.2 meters
Skill: Space Transports: VCX-820
Crew: 2+6 gunners
Crew Skill: Varies
Passengers: None
Cargo Capacity: 1 metric ton
Consumables: 6 months
Cost: 450,000 (new), 300,000 (used)
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x2
Hyperdrive Back-Up: x12
Nav Computer: Yes
Maneuverability:
Space: 6
Atmosphere: 330; 950 km/h
Hull: 5D
Shields: 6D
Sensors:

Passive: 20/1D
Scan: 35/1D+1
Search: 80/2D+1
Focus: 2/3D

Weapons:

2 Twin Heavy Laser Cannons (fire separately)

Fire Arc: Turret
Skill: Starship Gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-3/12/25
Atmosphere Range: 100-300/1.2/2.5km
Damage: 5D+1

8 Autoblasters (4 groups of 2, fire separately)

Fire Arc: Partial Turrets (front, left, right)
Skill: Starship Gunnery
Fire Control: 4D
Space Range: 1-3/10/20
Atmosphere Range: 100-300/1/2km
Damage: 3D+2

1 Proton Torpedo Launcher (16 torpedoes)

Fire Arc: Front
Skill: Projectile Weapons: Proton Torpedoes
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1/3/7
Atmosphere Range: 50-100/300/700m
Damage: 9D

Capsule: The VCX-820 escort freighter was a freighter designed several years before the Yuuzhan Vong War. It was a heavy, fast, "flying guns"-platform. With its 8 autoblasters, it could easily guard convoys of otherwise defenseless bulk freighters and commerce craft.

Designed with military requirements, it was nonetheless reasonably priced on the civil market. Originally, the VCX-820 was designed for the Imperial Remnant, but invasion by the Yuuzhan Vong caused many smugglers and private traders to seek out a vessel that would allow for protected travel through profitable, yet highly dangerous, space lanes. As a result of this desire, many larger trade-firms invested in these vessels, making it quite common during the hard times of the New Republic.