S-161 "Stinger" XL

Latero Spaceworks built the S-161 "Stinger" XL for people who expected to arrive first. It is a 39-meter luxury yacht aimed squarely at wealthy executives — fast, elegant, and expensive — with a flight deck slung beneath the hull on a rotating, asymmetrical wing assembly that gives the ship a silhouette nobody mistakes for a freighter. The name is marketing rather than taxonomy: no mantis in the galaxy has anything resembling a stinger. (Assumption: the 39-meter length and the passenger and cargo figures come from tabletop and fan-reference sources rather than an official measurement, which has never been published. Sources vary between 39 and 39.5 meters.)

Where most civilian hulls this size spend their mass on cargo, the Stinger spends it on the interior and the drive. The hyperdrive is Class 1.0 — faster than all but one other civilian chassis in this catalog — and a pair of laser cannons sit in the bow above the cockpit, which makes it the rare yacht that leaves the factory able to shoot back. Two crew fly it, a pilot and a co-pilot, with room for six more aboard. The hold is modest for a ship of its length, because the volume went into crew quarters, a galley, a workshop and the kind of common space a yacht buyer expects.

The best-documented S-161 is the Stinger Mantis, bought by the Latero pilot Greez Dritus sometime before 14 BBY and financed, by his own account, with a loan considerably larger than he was comfortable with. Under Dritus the ship stopped being an executive runabout and became a safehouse: it carried Cere Junda, Cal Kestis and the droid BD-1 — later joined by the Nightsister Merrin — across the Outer Rim through the years the Inquisitorius was hunting the last Jedi, which is where the line "the Mantis is home for those without one" comes from. It debuted in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order in 2019 and returned in Jedi: Survivor, by which point it had reached Koboh and, through the Koboh Abyss, the hidden world of Tanalorr.

For a player crew the Stinger is the yacht you pick when you want to look legitimate and still be able to fight your way out. AC 14 and Handling +2 make it one of the nimbler hulls in its class, 100 HP and 50 shields put it mid-band for durability, and the two fixed forward cannons mean the pilot is the gunner — line the nose up or do not shoot at all. The small hold is the real cost: this is not the ship for a cargo run. It is the ship for a crew who need somewhere to live between jobs, which is exactly what its most famous owner used it for.