U-Wing UT-60S Scout Transport

The UT-60S is Incom's stripped-down answer to the UT-60D's only consistent weakness — its size. A standard combat transport is a flying brick on a Rebel battlefield: armored enough to soak fire, big enough to drop a squad, but slow to slip past Imperial sensor pickets and easy to track from orbit. The S-variant trades cargo bay for airframe, halves the troop capacity, and shaves over six meters off the hull. The result is a ship that fits where the D doesn't — narrow canyons, jungle clearings, the gap between two derelicts in a debris field — and an AC that punishes anti-air gunnery used to leading the bigger model.

Pathfinder cells, intelligence couriers, and Cassian Andor's old fixers favor the S for the same reason the D never quite worked for them: it's an insertion ship, not a transport. Same twin laser cannons, same Class-2 hyperdrive, same retractable wings. Different mission. Most are unmarked Alliance-grey or smuggler-painted; a few wear faction iconography. If you see one parked on a landing pad with the hatch open, you're probably about to walk into a covert operation, a debriefing, or both.