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  Dash Rendar'sOUTRIDER  |
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Source: (Shadows of the Empire) Year: 1996 Retail: $21.99 Weapons and Accessories: Cockpit and Gun Turret you fully rotate in battle! |
Technical Information:
- Model: Heavily Modified Corellian YT-2400 Freighter
- Length: 21 Meters
- Crew: 2
- Gunners: 2
- Passengers: 4
- Cargo Capacity: 75 Metric Tons
- Weapons: 2 Heavy Double Laser Cannons, 2 Concussion Missile Tubes
Comments: There are few who can shoot, fly, and brag like Dash Rendar. As one of the most effective mercenaries and smugglers in the galaxy, he needs a craft large enough to hold a sizable cargo, but with the speed and agility of a starfighter. The Outrider is such a ship. Its design is inspired by a Corellian freighter much like the famed Millennium Falcon, with a few different specifications. For one, the Outrider is more compact and a little quicker in sub-lightspeeds. It also has a beefed-up hyperdrive and powerful twin shield generators housed in the forward main hulls. Rotating dual laser cannons are mounted on the top and bottom turrets, but its most notable feature is its conversion to battle mode. This is a state-of-the-art defense system in which the main hull separates from port to stern with a rotating swing-arm mechanism that provides the ship with an almost unlimited field of fire. In this mode the ship's rotating axis, the Outrider may appear to be flying out of control when in fact, it is efficiently avoiding enemy fire and destroying enemy craft at an unbelievable rate. Many have compared the Outrider's "blast-cluster" attacks to a hurricane, since it appears to be moving in every direction at once before snapping out of battle-mode and into lightspeed for an easy exit. With Dash Rendar in her cockpit, the Outrider is a devastating fighter and one of the most challenging targets in the galaxy.
