Was just browsing around and I couldn't find a Spacecraft of duros' design. Since the Duros are a among the galaxy's first space faring civilizations that's a bit surprising.

Do you know of any Duros Spaceships?

Doesn't seem like there's that many, strangely. I did a quick search through the 'pedia and found only a few ships that are Duros, and none are in the books.

Just because they were one of the first spacefaring races (around 25.000+ years ago), doesn't mean they dominate the market for spaceships.

Most likely they simply got overtaken by other species' companies (and those probably simply hired the best duros ship designers to boot).
Kinda like how the US pioneered the automotive industry, but today it's uncommon to see an american car outside of the states.

There are lots of known shipbuilding centers that have few or no officially detailed starship classes simply because no one working on any of the game systems saw a need to create stats or any ship designs created by them. Fondor has the third highest ship output of any system in the setting but I don't think there have ever been any native Fondor designs shown in the Lore.

Rendili was supposed to be one of the largest warship producers in the Republic until shortly before the Clone Wars but there are only two detailed Rendili capital ship classes for the period 1000 BBY until the designs created during the wars. Sulis Van I believe only has one native design. The shipwrights which only have a few native designs detailed vastly outnumber those thathave reasonable inventories statted out.

Two points: 1) just because there aren't many starships of duros design already established in the lore, doesn't mean they can't exist. 2) just because the duros were one of the earliest spacefaring races, doesn't mean they have huge shipyards in the rebellion era. From everything I've read, the duros are renowned as pilots and navigators, not as mechanics or engineers (though there are always individuals that don't fit that stereotype).

Another perpetrator is probably writers being lazy. "I have to give this ship I've designed a production company... Meh, I'll just use Corellia."

Another perpetrator is probably writers being lazy. "I have to give this ship I've designed a production company... Meh, I'll just use Corellia."

lol probably more this than anything.

Another perpetrator is probably writers being lazy. "I have to give this ship I've designed a production company... Meh, I'll just use Corellia."

lol probably more this than anything.

Yeah they probably have a guidebook with a list of two or three known fighter manufacturers, transport manufacturers, and capship manufacturers and many authors just pick one off the proper list when designing a ship.

Back in the WEG D6 days there was a Duros designed ship called the Mneffe class Superluminal shuttle or some such in "No Disintegrations" (a book of adventures geared toward Bounty Hunters). I can try to dig up my copy but I remember it being ugly.

Yeah now that i think about wasn't there a fighter that was a joint venture between a Duros company and the developers of the E-Wing still not much for what was almost certainly the site of one of the Founding Shipwrights of the Republic though Core Galaxy systems doesn't have much more due to being dissolved a few centuries before the movies. Alderaanian royal Engineering doesn't either but they should have more since odds are the Thranta War Cruiser, Alderaanian War Frigate and Alderaanian Gunships are theirs it has just never been confirmed..

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are Ships of Duros design, I am looking for them for my campaign and I couldn't find any

Back in the WEG D6 days there was a Duros designed ship called the Mneffe class Superluminal shuttle or some such in "No Disintegrations" (a book of adventures geared toward Bounty Hunters). I can try to dig up my copy but I remember it being ugly.

the force is strong in this one! wookiepedia for the lazy

yay it mentions a company called DuroTech. *click* **** it.

"DuroTech was a starship manufacturing company presumably based on or in orbit around the planet Duro. Duro Tech manufactured the Mneffe-class superluminal shuttle."

found a better picture of the ship.

Anybody know of any other duros ships?

found a better picture of the ship.

Anybody know of any other duros ships?

I bet they stopped making them after no one bought that ugly hunk of junk

found a better picture of the ship.

Anybody know of any other duros ships?

Nice to know my memory hasn't failed yet. It really is ugly. I wonder if a new artist might be able to salvage it...

found a better picture of the ship.

Anybody know of any other duros ships?

There was the Dagger-D Police fighter but that's it other then the shuttle AFAIK

The 'pedia does mention, on the Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc. page that said company was owned for a time by Duros investors (after the Battle of Naboo but before the Clone Wars)... buuuuut the page has no references on where that information can actually be found.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hoersch-Kessel_Drive%2C_Inc.

Now, that doesn't mean that any Duros engineers had anything to do with any ship design, but it doesn't mean that there weren't, either.

True though the question of what new ships if any were designed in that short period remains.

One thought occurs to me — just because you’re first doesn’t necessarily mean that you are best.

Maybe Duros tend to be great Engineers, but not very good ship designers?

Maybe the Duros ships were just plain superceded by more modern designs and no one wants them anymore, so they all got sent to the scrapyards over the years?

Or maybe they got Microshafted, and secretly all CEC designs are just layers upon layers of … fluff … and underneath it all is still the original DurOS 3.11?

Or maybe this is a whole new area of completely unexplored story possibilities, just waiting for someone to re-discover that ancient Duromellian Battle Cruiser fleet that exited hyperspace too closely to a variable black hole and got captured in the gravity well, just waiting for the next plucky adventurer to come along?

On the artistic side, I think it’s difficult to create cohesive designs for a wide variety of makes/models of ships. There are some universes that do that kind of thing well, where they have a good chief designer who can say that all ships from X have these kinds of qualities and all ships from Y have those other kinds of qualities, but that’s relatively rare.

And given the hit-and-miss nature of how the EU garden has been tended over the decades, it doesn’t surprise me that no one has done that yet for a wide variety of species. Maybe we’ll see more of that in the future.

Maybe all ships are actually of Duros design, with the major companies hiring Duros designers, but moving manufacturing to areas closer to raw materials, cheap labor, or the market where they are to be sold.

Maybe Duros are like Bugatti (the real world car company), they don't make a lot of cars, just a few really expensive high end cars that are just amazing, but that you will probably never drive and may never even see.