Many a debate ranged over whether it was docking rings or lifepods that were located behind the cylindrical protrusions on the ship's hull. This frequently led to misidentification by casual starship watchers. Matching port and starboard docking rings were instead placed in the protrusions on either side of the external hull, again showing the versatility of the CEC designers in that this interior change barely altered the outward appearance of the YT-1300. These ramps and the overhead clearance they required took up much of the space that housed the escape pods in the YT-1300p. Of significant note were the twin boarding ramps, port and starboard, for the access of treaded cargo loaders and droids. The freight configuration left the interior of the ship as an empty shell, leaving the crew with minimal comforts as more room was given to the cargo holds. As a result, truncated boarding ladders replaced the ramps used for standard access and egress. This supplemented the five Class-1 escape pods located in the engineering bay. Greater escape pod capacity was also a requirement and two Class-6 escape pods were built into the sides of the YT-1300p to accommodate the larger passenger complement. An official CEC conversion kit could convert two of the bunks into bunk beds, increasing passenger capacity to five beings per cabin. Each passenger cabin had three bunks, a compact refresher and a storage compartment.
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The passenger configuration made full use of the saucer shaped hull to fit as much living space as possible, sacrificing room that would be typically reserved for cargo or machinery in favor of multiple passenger cabin modules. The separate designations for freight and passenger configurations disappeared from common usage soon after Emperor Palpatine's rise to power. This configuration, initially called " YT-1300fp", quickly became the most popular arrangement, over time coming to be recognized as the "stock" version of the ship. Realizing that many customers were looking for a balance between cargo and passengers, Corellian Engineering began to deliver ships with a blend of both freight and passenger modules. It was not uncommon to find ships with a mixture of both passenger and cargo configurations belonging to more entrepreneurial captains however, and later in the life-cycle of the YT-1300 product line the CEC execs grew wise to this fact. Two of the most popular designs, and which saw the greatest levels of production, were the freight ( YT-1300f) and passenger ( YT-1300p) configurations. While all YT-1300s looked similar from the outside, the interior of the ship could be configured in a number of ways thanks to the modular design.
The deckplans of a YT-1300 light freighter. Hundreds of thousands of YT-1300s were still in service as of 40 ABY.
The features the YT-1300 was given on the production line were necessary but basic: the off-center cockpit two escape pods, located on the port and starboard side of the freighter a laser cannon mounted atop the craft and about 100 tons of cargo space. Īlmost every YT-1300 that was sold was later customized with a handful of extra components, from simple underfloor storage space to a new hyperdrive and added firepower. YT-1300s used fuel cells powered by liquid metal fuel. The YT-1300 came in three different configurations: a port-mounted cockpit, a starboard-mounted cockpit, and a centrally mounted cockpit (the last of which became standard in the YT-1930 design). Like the rest of the YT-series, it featured a saucer-shaped hull with external cockpit. In short, the YT-1300 was reliable, durable, and easy to modify, hence its popularity amongst freighter captains throughout the galaxy. The appeal of the YT-1300 transport was not its basic equipment, but in its ability to take an extraordinary amount of modifications and alterations. It was considered an equivalent of its time to the Galactic Republic Barloz cargo freighter. The YT-1300 model exemplified this concept with a circular main corridor and modular compartments that could be mounted around it, all radiating outwards from a central core inside a saucer-shaped hull making for both a convenient and economic design.
This saved CEC enormous amounts of credits by allowing the starships to be brought to market at extremely competitive prices. Whole sections could be mass-produced and arranged into new configurations as needed without extensive retooling. Conceived by a panel of CEC shipbuilding experts with help from Narro Sienar, the YT-series went on to become one of the most popular space transport hulls ever produced, revolutionizing the interstellar shipping industry with its unparalleled application of modular design.
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