MC-18 Light Freighter

The MC-18 light freighter is unmistakably a Mon Calamari design: elegant, organic in its curves, and built to a standard most yards reserve for warships. Like everything the Mon Calamari Shipyards produced, no two MC-18s are exactly alike — each is custom-built, and each carries the little flourishes of the hands that made it.

Under the graceful hull sits a genuinely fast ship. A Class 1 hyperdrive (with a Class 10 backup) and a 950-kilometer-per-hour atmospheric ceiling let the MC-18 outrun most of its class, and a single turreted medium laser cannon gives it enough bite to discourage pursuit. As is standard Mon Calamari practice, it carries a backup shield generator, so its defenses hold up long after a lesser ship's would have failed.

The MC-18's signature trick is what it does when the sky runs out. The ship is fully submersible to a depth of a thousand meters, with a landing claw, standard gear, and inflatable puncture-proof pontoons for setting down on water. Submerged, its shields have to be reconfigured to handle the crushing exterior pressure — which leaves them weaker against weapons fire, the one price the MC-18 pays for going where other freighters can't follow.

For a player crew, the MC-18 is the freighter that opens up a whole extra map. Fast, well-shielded, and equally at home in a shipping lane, a hangar, or a hundred meters under an ocean, it suits crews who run cargo — or people — through places nobody thinks to watch. It served civilians and the Rebel Alliance alike, and it never looked like trouble until it needed to.