Star Wars: VCX-100 Light Freighter | Ship Breakdown

[@crashstudi0s]

"corellian civilian freighter" is just a fancy way to say "look, we can't legally make military ships without some paper work we really don't want to go trough"

[@Lastburn]

"Corellian Civilian Freighter" *wink wink*

[@peterturner2339]

"Corellian civilian freighters" are clearly the pickup trucks of the Star Wars universe; if they were truly intended mainly for shipping, they'd have spots for shipping containers. Stick some lasers on them and they're in the same role as all the old Toyota Hiluxes driving around Somalia with machine guns mounted in the back.

[@trkms]

@@peterturner2339 that's a problem: that old Hilux doesn't stand a chance against any specialized military vehicle.

[@Joesolo13]

@@trkms any comparison between cars and starships will be broad. Sea going ships might be better. Corelia essentially builds "merchant" vessels with thick hulls and rigged for speed, with oddly gun-deck like cargo holds and suspiciously large, and very square, port holes.

[@trkms]

@@Joesolo13 you cannot compare sea ships at all. It's either a merchant ship - they are build with single purpose to move as much stuff for the least amount of money. Civilian Scarabs can be re-purposed for smuggling (small illegal things with high reward) but they don't stand a chance against military-grade HSIC.

[@jeremybuxman7555]

"We're making this fast, armored, and well-armed vessel purely for peaceful trade" *Corellian engineers before bursting into giggles

[@Cyberc50x]

"And then I told the Imperial that we arm our freighters to deter the pirates!"

[@BlackXIV]

Well you know how many guns zivilian cargo ships had back in the Pirate times?

[@elementxxrider]

@@BlackXIV if it was a counterfeit cargo, half of it were weapons. If it was legal cargo, at least a musket per head (which is still a lot)

[@johncunningham4820]

What about the ANTI-PIRATE benefits of a Well Armed Small Freighter that operates away from Major Trade routes ?

[@talhahtaco2035]

The trade federation converting their cargoships to battlecariers for the invasion of Naboo and the clone wars thinking the exact same

[@Gauldame]

"civilian" and "freighter" In Corellian two words that grammatically require quotation marks around them when referring to space transports.

[@nicholaseedy3244]

Bahaha amazing!

[@darkraven5106]

Gauldame very, very, large quotations.

[@allnamesaretakenful]

Worker: We making another Gunboat for the Rebels? Corellian Executive: No, this is a "Civillian Freigher". Worker: The Empire really falls for that? Corellian Executive: Vader hasn't crushed my windpipe yet, so yeah, yeah they do.

[@sharilshahed6106]

Jokes aside, Pirates are big thing in SW no?

[@davidkelly4210]

@@sharilshahed6106 That's how I figured they sold it. They've been doing this totally a warship not a a warship thing for thousands of years. lol

[@adamdubin1276]

CEC: Here is an excellently designed freighter that will make pirates run away in terror. Rebel Alliance: Thanks for the Gunship!

[@mattstorm360]

It's a freighter... A freighter.

[@spiritofthewolf15x]

Literally the YV-929

[@qui-gonjinn3322]

@@mattstorm360 yeah sure…

[@mattstorm360]

@@qui-gonjinn3322 We make freighters! What our customers do with their ships is their business. Our business are freighters.

[@spaceengineeringempire4086]

CEC every time they want to make money: make a ship that is technically legal but make it supper easy to turn it into a warship.

[@CharlesUrban]

The Corellian Engineering Corporation's design philosophy in two words: "Plausible Deniability."

[@jlokison]

"It's not our fault what our customers do with their purchases after they leave the lot."

[@Patruicio]

What design philosophy? ;)

[@Lastburn]

*Technically not a gunship*

[@jlokison]

Got to be able to protect your cargo from "space pirates", right?

[@semifunctionalai5855]

@@jlokison seriously though, they are actually a large problem in the Star Wars galaxy

[@KenS1267]

It's an odd galaxy where the premier cargo ship manufacturer makes several series of light freighters clearly meant for smuggling and piracy.

[@tatepultro]

"We do not design our light freighters for smuggling and piracy.......they just happen to be really, really good at it." -Corellian Engineering Corporation, Advertising Slogan

[@danishsyed1068]

Ken Shaw that or making civilian ships that pack a punch sell really well

[@jlokison]

That's just Corellians for you, before they decided to go into big interstellar business they were known for being pirates... so really same business different clothes.

[@StacheMan26]

My understanding is that the Empire liked to keep a close eye on the manufacture and sale of militarily capable vessels, in order to make it harder for organized resistance groups to arm themselves against them, and CEC really liked selling militarily capable vessels. So, rather than deal with cost of paperwork for an artificially limited and screened market they just added some perfunctory cargo bays to their gunships, called them "light freighters", and hoped the Imperial bureaucrats didn't catch on until after they'd already made their buck.

[@KenS1267]

@@StacheMan26 Maybe if that rule stretched back to the Old Republic. There's a YT-1300 in a scene from the prequel trilogy.

[@darkraven5106]

“Civilian Freighter” Empire: Oh sure, and it just happens to come from “Corellia”

[@commanderknight9314]

Yes, yes it does come from Corellia. Is there a problem with that? :P

[@darkraven5106]

Commander Knight Yes, It’s not an Imperial Star Destroyer being made for the empire.

[@commanderknight9314]

@@darkraven5106 Not everything can be a star destroyer.

[@darkraven5106]

Commander Knight true, a Immobilizer Cruiser would be good too.

[@darkraven5106]

Commander Knight hey, dude. Remeber the RPs me and Night are doing for Shack’s AOTR campaign? Well we made a discord for it and were wondering if you wanted to join.

[@gotrgadstat7646]

Okay, so far, I think this is the coolest Corellian "freighter" in my books. Not only does it have turrets and a fighter, but that fighter even has its own turret on it.

[@P3x310]

So we heard you like turrets so we put a spacecraft with a turret on your spacecraft with turrets so you can strafe while you strafe

[@strikereureka1927]

There is never too much turrets

[@dominicbender5285]

Look closely and you'll find it's not an original design but based on the Nostromo Escape Pod turned backwards for the main top section of the ship. Gee ripped off of Alien for use in Star Wars, copy infringement anyone??

[@FoxMagi]

@@dominicbender5285 ... and we should care because? I'm not sorry if this offends you, because it's a cool ship and shape is just a "coincidence" doesn't offend me at all.

[@Cailus3542]

I’m still astonished that the Ghost is still kicking decades after the Galactic Civil War. It did tickle me to see the Falcon and the Ghost flying side by side in the ROS trailer.

[@kenet71]

The Hippy Griff. Both the falcon and the ghost had different owners before their current ones. Each may be a century old.

[@L0stEngineer]

A ship like that, you treat her right, and she'll be with you until the end of your days. -Firefly.

[@Praxus42]

CEC ships are designed to have things easily replaced and modified. Anything like that will purr like a kitten in the hands of a skilled mechanic for decades. Hell, in Legends, the Falcon crashed. During the Black Fleet Crisis, they completely rebuilt and restored her. I remember a line in the book of Han saying he'd have to go around loosening things up

[@UkrainianPaulie]

You realize your talking about an imaginary thing...right?

[@UkrainianPaulie]

@@L0stEngineer Wrong show.

[@jlokison]

The CVX-100 in addition to internal cargo hold can also attach standard cargo containers externally. Another after market change Syndulla made to the Ghost was the modified transponder she could easily adjust from the cockpit, making the Ghost appear as different types of ships to non visual sensors.

[@nickolas474]

I never watched Rebels, but this description makes the VCX sound suspiciously like freight was only a nominal concern for CEC. It would be like if an infantry fighting vehicle was sold as a car. I mean, _yeees_ but clearly you have other things on your mind

[@jlokison]

The Ghost was optimized to insert covert opperations and commando teams somewhere and then leave with minimal notice. Actually a perfect ship for the Alliance to Restore the Republic and for a larger group of main characters in a tv show. Even the crew compartments were big enough to add more bunks and house 9 each easily if you went with military spacing. Almost like some corporate executives on Correllia were rooting against the Empire.

[@nickolas474]

@@jlokison ...or wanted to make money off of the guys rooting against the empire ;P Same difference.

[@Ignonym]

It would be _unseemly_ for a loyal Imperial planet to be caught manufacturing paramilitary gunships.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

@@Ignonym you see, it's impossible to build good armed merchant vessels these days without some pirate or smyggler or terrorist cell stealing them while coincidentally forgetting crates of credits on the launch pad...

[@LordDarthHarry]

It's even less subtle sometimes. In the second Aftermath book the ship the main characters are using is literally described as a gunship that was re-branded as a "heavily armed freighter" until the Empire caught on and banned it.....but Imperial bureaucracy failed to reclassify it in the database.....

[@ZeroRyoko]

Its worth pointing out that Corellia don't sell their freighters with military weapons to the public. They generally design a single space frame with military and civilian applications in mind. Then if a police/military want a light picket vessel, the ship is then outfitted with weapons, if a civilian buys a ship its sold without heavy weapons. But due to the fact the vessels are designed this way, After market mods, like heavy weapons, are easy to install (if illegal.) because they only design one space frame for both military and civilian use, the cost to buy a Corellian vessel is lessened. KDY on the other hand tend to design there ships for a single purpose. And don't sell the military vessels to civilians. As a result KDY ships tend to be better at the specific role they are designed for, and modifying them for other roles tends to be expensive. While the corellian "jack of all trades, master of non" philosophy means there ships aren't as good, but are cheaper to buy and modify.

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

Yes! Literally my favorite Star Wars ship ever! I love the ship's versatility and functional design.

[@blueofthelightanddark6273]

It appears in the upcoming Episode 9 The Rise of Skywalker.

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

@@blueofthelightanddark6273 Yes! I'm hoping this is a sign that all of the canon material, from books to TV shows, are coming together in the Rise of Skywalker. But at the same time, I'm not going to get my hopes too high.

[@dankuser8303]

When u see the Ghost in RISE OF SKYWALKER trailer “That is a quality ship”

[@highgrounder5238]

Aka they want to bring in Rebels fans for that sweet sweet cash.

[@stargatecommand714]

@@highgrounder5238 "dibney bad"

[@sharilshahed6106]

​@Ali-A's father on the wrong context

[@kenetickups6146]

VtotheAtotheDER ReconstructingTheDeathStar Yeah, disney is bad

[@notablegoat]

Every Space Ship Model Ever: "It's a reliable and exemplary model that saw service well beyond its manufacture date"

[@clpfox470]

To be fair, i dont think anyone wants a unreliable space ship lol

[@notablegoat]

@@clpfox470 Tell that to The Outer Worlds

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@notablegoat Zing! (Shh... Ada is always watching!)

[@karnematch]

either that or fresh off the lab prototype models

[@RedXlV]

A spaceship that's unreliable would vanish pretty quickly from all markets except "scrap metal".

[@egyptian316]

I imagine the VCX-100 was offered in a number of variants (which would be typical for a craft like this). My headcanon is that the Ghost was fitted for planetary survey, which is why it's got docking gear for a small craft-a cargo ship would never want to carry that weight. Even a smuggler generally wants to run rather than stand and fight. All of the crew quarters also make sense on a ship that could be out working in an undeveloped system for a long time-a freight crew would probably just make do with bunks and a galley/common room. The torpedo launchers are almost certainly some aftermarket component, or from a kit intended for local defense ships.

[@blueofthelightanddark6273]

But there is something about the VCX-100 in The Rise of Skywalker. What do you think about the VCX-100 in a massive fleet of Resistance ships? Who’s piloting the VCX-100 during the sequel trilogy? We’ll have to wait for an answer when the film releases in theaters.

[@moontrooper2587]

Ah~ yes. Corillian Engineering ‘coincidently’ bending to consumer popular demand yet again.

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

The famous "Ghost" from the Star Wars Rebels animated series. I have a model of this in my collection.

[@Mister_Mag00]

the most OP hero ship in a very long time lol

[@kineticdeath]

i believe the "Ghost" variant of this ship class also had the IDDQD module installed, its only a tiny little unit like a 30cm cube sitting in one of the cargo bays but its effect is without doubt outstanding

[@brydon5721]

Love the design of the Ghost, more so than the Falcon.

[@andrewhousley9911]

I have to agree. I like having a cockpit front and center, plus to me it just seems a bit more spacious on the interior with four cargo hold as well. I also like having the crew quarters closer to the cockpit and a secondary ship attached to it (which you better believe I would modify with a hyperdrive like what happened in the show).

[@slimetank394]

Does the Falcon have it's own starfighter? I think NOT!

[@rumsmuggler30]

It seems like many forgot that we've already seen the Ghost on screen before in Rogue One, but seeing it and the Falcon together will be a treat.

[@DevTheBigManUno]

Star Wars is the perfect IP to have their own space sim/combat game. Dozens of ships and all would be completely customizable.

[@L0stEngineer]

Long overdue. I would love a stars wars mmo space sim. Until that day happens, star citizen is pretty much as close as you'll get.

[@wwtoonlinkfan]

@@L0stEngineer Elite: Dangerous as well.

[@MalletMann]

What, you mean the X-Wing series? They put out a bunch of those back in the 90s.

[@danielhaire6677]

@@MalletMann Used to play it routinely and even went back to it a few years ago. Remember how the final mission actually lets you fly the Falcon?

[@danmoore4503]

MMO space sims are complicated, time consuming, and very expensive to develop. That means they are a high risk project for a niche consumer base. EA doesn't have the balls for that, and if they did it would be very simplistic and loaded with micro transaction bullshit. If you want something that comes close though look into some of the Starwars Galaxies emulator servers.

[@casbot71]

We need to supply a lot of warships without official sanction… _Just buy a bunch of Corellian light freighters and let the mechanics go wild on them._ Seriously give a bunch of them performance upgrades and military style overhauls and you have a fleet of light corvettes that can run rings around fighters and straf capital ships. Load up their cargo bays with ordinance like missiles, torpedoes and proton bombs. Imagine a few hot rod "attack freighters" instead of a bunch of Star Fortresses - they would get to that Dreadnaught fast! trash the Ties sent to intercept, and carry a lot of proton bombs in their cargo bays, drop them and get out of the blast zone in time. Now imagine if they were disguised to still look like civilian ships, the possibilities for suprise raids would be magnificent.

[@thecrb1579]

If I had to pick a star wars ship to own and fly in real life, it absolutely would be the VCX-100.

[@heroicaknight4735]

It's a top contender for me, but my freighter of choice would have to be the YT-2400.

[@harolorrego6702]

X 2 bro

[@pollall2793]

“Light Freighter” Is literally the size of a small corvette, can go head to head with Aquedince-Class Light Cruiser and win, and can destroy a Gazanti with it’s laser canons, this thing is either a gunboat, or a light corvette.

[@ArmouredProductions]

For real. It seems every single "freighter" civilian ship seems to be superior to Military ships.

[@Howlrunner82]

@@ArmouredProductions as long as its used by the rebels

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

Also, the Ghost has been heavily modified for combat.

[@MediumRareOpinions]

It does make some sense when you consider the hostile galaxy the manufacturers are marketing their ships too. Compare them to age of sail Galleons, armed merchant ships that were often drafted into use as auxiliary warships in times of war.

[@math3000]

CEC: They need protection from pirates and smugglers right? Right???

[@alexandrearrive6199]

"Admiral, the rebels are escaping the compound. Should we pursue them?" *"No. Let them go. They've done their part."* Exchange between Grand Admiral Thrawn and his subordinate, two weeks before the Imperial invasion of Planet Chopper

[@peterwright5358]

Actually, its *Chopper Base* on the planet called Atollon.

[@demogorgonzola]

``more in common with a military gunboat than a civilian freight hauler`` It's like in the old soviet joke... _Soviet news agency report on an incident Sino-Soviet border: "A peacefully-plowing tractor was subject to an unprovoked attack by Chinese forces. The tractor retaliatory rocket barrage suppressed the enemy artillery."_ :)

[@Mike28625]

One of the most logical fantasy designs I've ever seen. She's a beaut!

[@alexboehm3919]

Even Han Solo admitted it, the Ghost is superior to the Falcon! Another great video! I’d like to suggest a few ships to examine if you don’t mind: T-85 X-wing MG-100 Starfortress Admiral Class space warfare carrier Oryx’s dreadnaught

[@richardched6085]

Idk... That was in one of the Forces of Destiny shorts (Proven to be quasi Canon by the fact that the Ewoks did in fact eat Stormtroopers). That whole "Get them rations instead." Was child friendly New Republic propaganda. One of the Canon comics shows Rebels eating meat and knowing better than to ask where it came from...

[@jlokison]

Han was coerced into that admission, and I doubt actually believed it but said it because of Leia. As for the Ewoks eating Imperials and serving the meat to Rebels even the for es of Destiny didn't dispute that, I got the impression Leia was trying to stop the Ewoks from eating the alive POWs, she knew stopping them from eating the dead was a wasted effort. The problem is Ewoks prefer cooking their prey while it is still alive, although will settle for cooking dead meat.

[@richardched6085]

@@jlokison logical

[@DycuswasHere]

The nicest kite you’ll ever see!

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

The Ghost was also used during the Battle of Scarif in Rogue One and was part of the reinforcements led by Lando during the Exegol battle in Rise of Skywalker.

[@jedigecko06]

"I thought Corellia didn't believe in warships..."

[@spiritofthewolf15x]

"Warship? What warship? All I see is a light freighter" - CEC ceo.

[@raphaelhanna8345]

I'm primarily a legends fan but I actually consider the ghost to be my favourite light freighter because it's clearly more optimised for combat although I do like the millennium falcon however

[@ELCADAROSA]

Request - I just watched "Spaceballs". Haven't seen that in a long time. Any chance on doing a review of Spaceball 1, the Winnebago (Eagle 5), or Princess Vega's ship (the Mercedes ...)?

[@arstotzkanatthedmz4486]

My favourite part was the demonstration of its modularity with holding different types of shuttles

[@lokai7914]

Surely the Ghost should have arrived on Halloween! Just teasing... 😎😂

[@av799]

The Ghost is up there with The Millennium Falcon as my favorite ship in Star Wars. Might not be as armed to the teeth as the falcon is, but it’s versatile and it’s stealth capabilities more than make up for that.

[@mackbonham1]

Spacedock remains the Jane's Fighting Ships of pop culture. Love it!

[@generalbutterscotch4887]

The more of these analyses I watch, the more I realise, without question, just how desperately I am in need of an Elite Dangerous clone set in the Star Wars universe.

[@grand-dadmiral]

Ah, the Ghost. Spooky.

[@superginrai8036]

These info videos on sci-fi ships are great. Keep it up.

[@GAJake]

The Ghost is an RV with a Grenade launcher, 3 50 cals, and the auxillary shuttle is a side by side technical with a 50 cal and m240 in the back. Oh not to mention it's radar jamming equipment and a fake license plate and registration for every state.

[@captiannemo1587]

Ofc no mention that the VCX-100 can dock... two fighters to it as well using the docking ports on the port and starboard sides of the ship...

[@Deridus]

So... with three fighters, does that make the Ghost an escort carrier, or a light carrier?

[@captiannemo1587]

@@Deridus Escort. It was not very stable in hyperspace or in normal space with the added weight of the fighters. At least that is how the show showed it.

[@Deridus]

@@captiannemo1587 every time they mag-clamped cargo to the hull, it made me think of the Battlestar Galactica episode when they used freighters to hold vipers. Just mag clamp a few A-wings on the hull down there as wells as the port and starboard access areas, and PRESTO! 5 fighters and a mini-frigate!

[@Intreductor]

Brutal episode! Have you considered continuing your Planetside series for ground vehicles? I'd love to see the Separatist Supertank that was highlighted in the Clone Wars during the 2nd battle of Geonosis.

[@nathandecrom2409]

torpedo's on a civilian "freighter" seem like some on found a loop hole

[@Cyberc50x]

@@SephirothRyu "Oh, the torpedos? Those are so you can fight off the more sucuessful pirates who are using VCX-100s"

[@Captain_Reaper]

Hell yeah! I adore this design, everything about it screams tough as nails and ready to blow all the shit up!

[@LogicalMan6]

Still hoping to one day see a purpose built Corellian warship on the big screen.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Don't you mean the Imperial -1 and -2 Star Destroyers?

[@pitui1987]

MonkeyJedi99 A lot of us will always think of them as Kuat Drive Yards designs.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@pitui1987 Fair enough.

[@commanderknight9314]

There is the dp-20 frigate(more a gunship though) as it is a purpose built warship and built by CEC.

[@math3000]

We can still hope

[@Arashmickey]

That is a quality Spacedock channel logo.

[@turboturtle7761]

I'll be honest, I may have come to set footage of the Ghost but I really just stuck around for all the footage of the Gozanti class cruisers. I love that cruiser so much. I "ship" that ship.

[@isacc8324]

But why did they make a literal light Troop transport/gunboat the empire would kill for these as a military vessel

[@mattstorm360]

Dose it fit with the tarkin doctrine?

[@luckysix1015]

I would say the sentinel class shuttle already counts for that. It can hold plenty of troops, has good shields and plenty of fire power, only real difference is that it isn’t a stealth ship

[@COMMANDERHAWK22]

if star citizen ever gets released youl have years of content with as many ships and variants they have.

[@L0stEngineer]

It's currently a pretty fun play in alpha. The cutlass is as close to owning the "ghost" as I'll ever get.

[@StoneCresent]

I take umbrage to the term "passive scanner". A scanner is by its very nature active as it sends pings of energy and awaits for their return. By contrast a sensor is passive because it only listens for signatures. Think radar (scanner) versus a radio telescope (sensor).

[@kevingluys3063]

Forward mounted torpedo tubes sound really peaceful.

[@roundlakerailfan6853]

I've been waiting a long time for this!

[@rhodrage]

The main reason I prefer this to the Falcon, is that the cockpit is in the center. The side cockpit of the falcon always looked silly to me.

[@revan8914]

Awesome video love the breakdowns

[@cornmaized]

YES FINALLY I’m honestly surprised this ship has become my favorite. I initially thought it was just a sort of falcon clone. But it’s design is just clunky and smooth enough to scream Star Wars that it has become probably my favorite designed ship In the whole of Star Wars. Which is saying something.

[@justinjeffries1554]

Hey Spacedock crew! I have a fan suggestion for a star wars ship breakdown: the Paelleon-Class Star destroyer of the legacy era! We rarely hear even a peep from star wars and scinfi content creators about this era and there are plenty of ships that get loads of "page time" that I'd love to see on here...But most of all the star destroyer named after our best Imperial Boi

[@adamlytle2615]

Did we ever get a nice close-up of the 2nd Phantom docking or even just docked for that matter? I don't doubt the docking slot on the Ghost could be modified to accommodate a different shuttle, but I don't remember them ever showing us explicitly that it had been.

[@rumsmuggler30]

Yes the phantom 2 has been shown docked on the Ghost. They modified it armed it and also added an astromech add-on for Chopper

[@ImmortalFenix88]

I love the Ghost! Amazing ship, you should check out Tachyon The Fringe staring Bruce Campbell. And Starcraft, a blizzard RTS game

[@Dan19870]

There really needs to be a remake of Tachyon, they had some incredible ship designs. My favorite of which has to be the Claymore. Piloting that bear of a ship and mauling any Corpers who got too close.

[@ImmortalFenix88]

Dan Tzu I love Bruce Campbell playing the hero. The story is what caught me though, it was impressive and I love (spoiler alert) I love the fact that you lose everything and have to start over. I wish more games did that. Its just fun mildly losing your efforts and starting fresh in a game like that where it really benefits you by unlocking better gear than you previously had plus exciting missions!

[@nathandavis1742]

You know what's always bugged me? We're always hearing how common and popular YT-1300 was, but only ever see one.

[@squirrellordsgaming2772]

This would be my second pick after the Lancer, if I lived in the star wars setting.

[@canuckled]

I have 2 for the X-Wing game and 2 for Armada. They're one of my favourites from Star Wars.

[@matthewakian2]

I was just thinking of seeing The Ghost in Ashoka. If it was the old days, they would have spent months building the ship, like Millenium Falcon in the movies. Now it would just be totally computer-generated. I hope practical effects will not be completely lost.

[@alandell88]

Hmmm... Looks like a Lakon Asp Explorer (Elite Dangerous) from the front

[@ZinXlX]

Huh, never watched Rebels but I didn't know that their ship was Corellian.... Does Corellia even know what's the difference between Military and Civilian ? I mean their ships are freakin powerhouses even in the stock configuration and then we already see even more when it's fully customized.

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

"It's a CIVILIAN freighter!" (adds 20% markup)

[@TheKlaus.]

"Freighter"

[@CmdrShepard95]

Am I the only one who loves this ship more than the Millennium Falcon and the Outrider?

[@bsmnt23]

have you ever noticed that the Millennium Falcon is totally diferent to every other SW ship? Every other ship has either turbine or rocket-style engines on the back of it. But the Falcon has that really cool blue bar. Odd.

[@crgkevin6542]

At this point, is it really "unexpected" for a Corellian freighter design to be heavily armed? At this point it should be "As is usual with Corellian freighter designs, this class is heavily armed..."

[@Papai_Pai]

I had a choice between this and the Falcon I take the ghost every time

[@Anton3055]

Never got here so soon!

[@valloarukaevu2846]

If this is what they call a light freighter, imagine what a heavy freighter would be like. Im picturing venators with the landing bay committed to cargo.

[@reginaldtyroneshort]

2 squads of modified vcx’s and y-wings can take out a Star destroyer and it’s ties for the price of 3 CR90s. That’s how u build a sustainable rebellion.

[@sharilshahed6106]

VCX are pretty slow for their size, would rather make an easy target if facing heavy firepower. That's the reason why Ghost strayed away from most confrontations with Star Destroyers.

[@michaeld.uchiha9084]

"Hust" Plot armor "hust"

[@reginaldtyroneshort]

Sharil Shahed an ISD has at most 72 ties (48 TIE/LN 12 Tie/sa and 12 tie/rc). 1 VCX can take out 4 ties before its shields give out and by drawing ties away from ISD the bombers can take it out on 1 strafing run.

[@reginaldtyroneshort]

Maikeru Uchiha90 plot armor is 1 thing but refusing to address this issue for 40 years in both film and books is another.

[@The_Unseen_Shadow]

The standard ship actually doesn't have a support craft in it's rear. Hera added the phantom and it's docking bay

[@templarw20]

My only issue with this is that we don’t really know what the stock VCX was armed with. Like… way back when, in the West End RPG era, and reinforced by other EU stuff, showed a stock YT-1300 only had a single laser turret and half the acceleration of the Falcon. It’s not unbelievable that the stock VCX probably didn’t have torpedo tubes, and the chin guns were a lot lighter than the Ghost.

[@VaderTheWhite]

My favorite Star Wars ship

[@brentc2411]

Why does Star Wars have so many "freighters" with less cargo capacity than a box-truck?

[@brentc2411]

I don't think it's canon, but there's a pic of the a yt-1300 using the front clamps to grab onto containers well over 10x the size of the ship, which makes sense for the offset cockpit, sensor dish and huge engines, that the ship itself is more like a long range "tug" or the truck part of an 18 wheeler, than being itself a cargo ship

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

That's one of the reasons I love the VCX-100. Because, unlike the YT-1300, the VCX actually has external magnetic clamps for hauling large crates.

[@Kaelnovar]

@@brentc2411 It's Cannon, they show that in the Solo movie.

[@LordDarthHarry]

@@Kaelnovar In the movie the clamp was used to hold an escape pod.

[@Halo1Buff]

@@LordDarthHarry supposedly one of many variations of things that fit between the mandibles.

[@antr7493]

What about the Corellian G9 Rigger-class?

[@mcintoshpc]

As much as I love this ship, we really need some non-CEC stuff lol i feel like every time you look at a ship large enough to hold more than two people, its CEC

[@admiralwolf7218]

I also believe the vcx was also in the battle in the new rise of skywalker

[@paulg5287]

Perhaps the hero ships could have little more about the interior? Dare I ask for a cross-section or floor plan?

[@cpt_bill366]

Why does it look like the Nostromo's escape pod from Alien?

[@archiescriven6178]

I searched for this comment, I agree 100%. It's so similar that I wonder if it's a reference

[@kennyhagan5781]

Looks like a good escort vessel for much larger freighters. I think that two of these would be better for my purposes....what kind of range do they have?

[@kitfo18]

I think this has to be updated as it looked like the ghost with her son at the helm i'm sure was at the final battle of episode 9.

[@1701paxton]

Thankyou so much for this!.

[@RedXlV]

I have to wonder, how did they manage to fit engines in that "support fighter" that were sufficient to give it any sort of mobility? There hardly seems to be room given the cargo/passenger bay.

[@JuanCAraujoS]

Indeed a well designed ship!

[@aquariandawn4750]

I need a warship Well, we have a lovely freighter right over here.

[@samquennell3649]

A great ship from a great show

[@wither5673]

Corellian engineering just dont miss with their ship line up.

[@luckysix1015]

“See with the ever rising threats of Piracy and rebellion we designed the VSX-100 with defense in mind. The stock torpedo launcher and auxiliary shuttle/escape craft give the crew of these vessels a far stronger chance of surviving pirate raids, though it has cost cargo space compared to our less equipped YT-series of ships.” -CEC probably at some point.

[@marleyjr00]

This ship would actually fit perfectly in Elite Dangerous. I'd use it for exploring.

[@duanscott2490]

The rebellion should have bought or commandeered as many Corellian freighters as they could. A few mods and they would've had a formidable force of... I'll call them light corvettes.

[@pravusprime]

If I lived in the Star Wars Universe, this would be the ship I'd want.

[@TheLiamster]

Isn’t this ship the ghost from Star Wars Rebels?

[@peterwright5358]

Yes, hence all the footage from SWR.

[@jedi69outcast]

The Millienium Falcon replacement? How we never got a Legacy Version of this ship I’ll never know

[@danieldunlap4077]

I've always thought Freighters were just way too small to effectively haul Cargo in this universe.

[@mattstorm360]

They would consider a big rig a freighter. And we seen freighters as big as capital ships.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

This is the U-haul technical style of freighter...

[@johnwolf2349]

They do have more superfreighter sized ships called bulk freighters, but most of the ship's we see seem to fit more into the role of delivery van, taking the cargo from the big ship's down to planets and stations the big ship's can't dock to.

[@danielhaire6677]

This type of freighter with its armaments would be perfect for an armed courier, transporting goods to a hostile environment. Those features just happen to make it a brilliant gunship with a few "minor" modifications

[@jlokison]

Small high value cargos require protection and speed. Bulk freighters can handle the high volumne low cost oer unit shipments.