Or does it at all? That huge ventral fin and all...

Actually besides docking on either port or starboard side I don't have a definite answer, but I've always imagined that its wings rotate so they are aligned with the main hull and deploy landing gears.

Simple it.... um...

You see the wings... um.. and the um... thing on the bottom....

All I can figure is it touches down on the bottom fin, repulor-locks itself in place, and uses a repulsorlift... lift to get people and cargo up and down

Actually besides docking on either port or starboard side I don't have a definite answer, but I've always imagined that its wings rotate so they are aligned with the main hull and deploy landing gears.

Yeah, but the central fin looks fixed in place. My guess is it can't land terrestrially and needs special facilities to make port. One thing I do notice on a lot of pics I searched is what appears to be a cargo door on the front, under the flight deck. If you need to do terrestrial ops, you can say it has a winching mechanism to haul things up, or if you're feeling fancy, the door can detatch and act as a repulsorlift pad locked to the bay area.

Edit: FREAKING GoM NINJA!

Star Wars is full of unnecessarily folding wings. Presumably you could rotate the side wings down, then the keel horizontal, then land? It would look horrifically ungainly.

It crashes head first and they build you a new one.

It transforms into a giant R2 unit! Astrobots roll out!

Very, very carefully.

Or maybe it can flip the ventral fin up, like another type of ship that I cannot for the life of me recall the name of. Sentinel landing shuttle, maybe?

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I believe the original artist intendid it to stand on the wings as a tripod, which is quite stupid, in my opinion. I generally have the side wings pivot 90 degrees (horizontal) and have the underside fin flip from a ventral to dorsal posistion.

about the same way as the Coronet, a free standing docking port, and it never really lands

TIE fighters never really land either. Not everything in Star wars has to land, or have landing gears.

Where are its cargo bay doors? Maybe it lands on the main exhaust (cockpit pointed skywards)?

It's a stretch, but consider this. Typically it never lands but stays in place with repulsorlift as suggested above. If it MUST shut down, that rear ventral fin seems to have a joint in it that could fold over upon itself (see the picture above in post #3). That folded joint seems to line up with the bottom of the two outside fins. That would create a tripod to land upon. Perhaps a ladder is placed in the side of the now folded ventral/rear wing. So, this wouldn't be the intended landing method (repulsorlifts), but used only in an emergency (need to shut repulsors/power down).

I like the rotating wings idea better, but can't figure out how that ventral wing could rotate like the side wings. Perhaps the joint I spoke of above folders over, then the entire wings falls over left or right?

When trying to figure out how it lands, I suggest using a good piece of art. The one from the FFG core book. The ventral wing could, and how I rule it, have a joint on the back end of the wing that pivots the wholw wing so it sits upside down and behind the main body. Hopefully that makes sense.

For terrestrial landing consider that the it has landing gear that extends down like any other craft. Also that the bottom fin both folds to the side and retracts with in itself. Also that the side wings rotate or the bottoms of them fold out to assist in landing. Another option is that they could fold up and away like the lambda shuttle.

It's wings strike me as rudders and daggerboards on a sailboat. Perhaps it was designed by a water species and makes water landings and terrestrial was never part of the equation.

Maybe it's a stretch but if the two side wings rotated, then the bottom wing could fold flat along the bottom of the ship.

Isn't that how Anakin's ship in Clone Wars lands?

I think it sits on its bottom.

It crashes head first and they build you a new one.

This is funny! Hmm, the most logical way seems to be a lift. Thanks, everyone!

There's an Imperial transport in Swtor that has a huge wing underneath when it flies. It folds down to one side when it lands. I figure with wing rotations, it works much the same on the Citadel.