I need 2 ships for a story I’m writing.They would be used by Jedi Order, Clone Wars Era. They need to be able to carry minimum 4 and 12 people, complete with sleeping quarters, but not so big as to need a dedicated crew. I’m thinking along the lines of A Ghost or Millennium Falcon. It could be a freighter, I suppose, but it’s being used in a people moving capacity not hauling stuff. One needs to have a shuttle or an escape pod. The other is being used in military operations. Ideas? Thanks!
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For the first one, I would suggest the Consular-class cruiser. It can carry up to 16 passengers, can function with a crew of two, and has two escape pods. It is definitely bigger than the Falcon or the Ghost (at 115 meters long), but you won’t find something much smaller that can carry so many passengers. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan used it in TPM to travel to the Trade Federation battleship over Naboo; it was used all through the Clone Wars as part of the Republic Navy, when some were modified with turbolasers and concussion missiles, but it was primarily a diplomatic transport.
If you really need something smaller, you could go with the Zeta-class long-range shuttle. At 35m long it is about the same size as the Ghost and the Falcon, requires two crewmembers and can carry 10 passengers. I don’t know if it includes sleeping quarters for everyone (most likely not, at that size) or even at all, but it is designed specifically to transport people quickly over long distances.
For the one doing military operations, I’m actually going to suggest the Consular-class cruiser again, the Charger c70 retrofit version. It’s a bit bigger than the unmodified version, is equipped with weapons as mentioned above, can carry up to 30 people (presumably less if everyone wanted a living space), and need 9 crewmembers (I assume you could get by with two, like the unmodified version, if the weapons went unstaffed).
These probably seem a bit big for your purposes. The issue is that the Jedi Order doesn’t often use dedicated transports, they either get rides on civilian vessels or use a Republic Navy ship, so they don’t really have ships reminiscent of the Falcon or the Ghost. Basically, if you want a ship used specifically by the Jedi during the Clone Wars, one that has sleeping quarters, you will need a couple people to act as crewmembers and supervise the controls.
Hope that helps! If you need other suggestions I’m happy to give some more.
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