DC0052 Intergalactic speeder

• Appeared in:
  
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  CW

• Size:
  2 meters long

• Affiliation:
  Jedi order

• Type:
  Airspeeder

• Manufacturer:
  Daystar Craft

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From the Expanded Universe

In the waning days of the Republic, the DC0052 Intergalactic speeder was a short-ranged repulsorcraft used exclusively by the Jedi order. Though found on other worlds, the speeder model was used most prominently on Coruscant, to ferry a single Jedi Councilor from the Jedi Temple to other sites on the planet.

Manufactured by Daystar Craft, this speeder had a mid-altitude ceiling of 170 kilometers, and a top speed of 800 kilometers per hour. The DC0052 made use of aerodynamic surfaces and a robust powerplant to rocket the tiny craft over urban areas. With twin Sono-class thrust pods and four stable but light Daystar Craft repulsorlift generators, the DC0052 provided swift, cheap, and reliable point A-to-B transportation.

Daystar had built upon previous success with their civilian issue DC0040, which their marketing department touted as "Intergalactic" in a series of ad campaigns that highlighted its starship-like design cues and heady power-to-weight ratios. Though that name was never formally applied to the DC0052, the sobriquet nonetheless stuck to the Jedi model.

The Jedi Council maintained a small fleet of 16 of the inexpensive craft to provide them with a means of traveling relatively quickly throughout the capital world without relying on public transport or pressing expensive Jedi starfighters into cross-world commutes. The Intergalactic had a range of 2,000 kilometers, which gave the Jedi quick access to many points on the planet while still remaining suborbital.

Its unique feature is a "drop-deployment" panel, which would allow a Jedi in need of immediate debarkation in an emergency to set the craft on autopilot to land while a hatch below the cockpit would drop away. The Jedi would then drop directly into the heat of the emergency, ready for action.

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This entry was developed by Hyperspace members Nathan (ChronoRadio) and The Dark Moose .