Omicron-class Attack Shuttle

The Omicron-class attack shuttle is Cygnus Spaceworks' idea of a shuttle that doesn't need an escort. Where most transports carry a token cannon and hope to avoid a fight, the Omicron packs eight — two heavy laser cannons at the wing joints, five light lasers strung along the wingtips, and a rear-facing double cannon to punish anyone foolish enough to give chase. It is a troop carrier and a gunship in one hull.

At just over thirty meters, the Omicron is nimble for its size, with a fast Class 1.5 hyperdrive that gets a squad to the fight and military-grade armor that keeps them in it. It seats a working crew — a pilot, a co-pilot, a navigator, and a gunner — and carries six more in the hold, enough for a full commando team and their gear. The design trades cargo room and comfort for firepower and speed, exactly the compromise a strike unit wants.

The Omicron's most famous example is the Marauder, the personal ship of Clone Force 99 — the elite, genetically unusual squad better known as the Bad Batch. Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, Crosshair, Echo, and the young Omega crewed it through the chaotic first years of the Empire, and its battered, hard-used silhouette became as recognizable as the squad itself. Modified far past factory spec, the Marauder is the Omicron's sales pitch made real: a shuttle that fights like a starfighter and hauls like a transport.

For a player crew, the Omicron is the ship for a team that expects every landing zone to be hot. Fast, armored, and bristling with guns fore and aft, it carries a full squad into trouble and shoots its way back out. Give it to commandos, mercenaries, or a found family of misfits who do their best work outnumbered.