My PCs are just about to finish up the adventure book, The Jewel of Yavin , and may or may not be hitching a ride on/stealing the Venture , a Nubian Courier-class yacht that Arend Shen owns. Anyone else decide to use that ship? Its stats are pretty sweet (maybe too sweet for my PCs, and perhaps something will go wrong during their great escape), and I would really like to have a general idea of the internal layout.

On a related note, does anyone do requests/commissions for ship deckplans? Anyone have any recommendations? I know that a lot of this game is supposed to be done in the imagination but it is really nice knowing what something as iconic as your ship looks like.

Thanks in advance!

Does anyone know what a Nubian Courier-class yacht looks like at all?

There are a few other Nubian ships we know of, but I haven’t been able to find any pictures of the Courier-class yacht.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/H-type_Nubian_yacht/Legends

Is it this one?

I don't think so, that's a Theed design.

It doesn't seem to be one of the H-Type or J-Type drive vessels which were manufactured by the Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps (TPSVEC) for the Royal house of Naboo around Nubian drive cores, but something featuring drives from the same manufacturer. Something a bit cheaper I think as it's hyperdrives seem slower than any of the expensive Theed ships.

Since it carries 25 passengers & 19 crew/staff it has got to be bigger than the H-Type Yacht, bigger than a J-Type Skiff, and maybe even as big as the J-Type Diplomatic Barge (Cruiser).
With those passenger and crew numbers it has to be at the big end of the SIL4 range if not actually SIL5.

I reckon it looks however you want it to look, since this seems to be it's first appearance, however, Nubian Drives are big and powerful, and I reckon this Yacht is only slow because it is so damned over-armored, yet it has some extra maneuvering thrusters, the damned if the thing can't fly well, with Handling +2 it's an agile ship.

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Actually looking at it's stats it's quite mad. A Silhouette 4 Ship that carries 19 crew (including cooks, waiters, stewards, cleaners) and 25 'Luxury' passengers and 50 Cargo. It is very fragile however, with HT/SS 20/20.
Size comparison - Firespray, YT1300, YT2600, Lambda Shuttle are all SIL4. Wanna try having a party with 44 people on board one of those, even with rotating shifts?

Actually looking at it's stats it's quite mad. A Silhouette 4 Ship that carries 19 crew (including cooks, waiters, stewards, cleaners) and 25 'Luxury' passengers and 50 Cargo. It is very fragile however, with HT/SS 20/20.

Size comparison - Firespray, YT1300, YT2600, Lambda Shuttle are all SIL4. Wanna try having a party with 44 people on board one of those, even with rotating shifts?

Yup. That’s crazy. The only Sil4 ship they’ve statted so far that can carry that many people is the Kappa-class shuttle, and those sure as heck aren’t “luxury-class passengers”.

The 4R3 Light Assault Transport can carry 16 passengers, but it only has five crew.

The Lambda-class Long-range Shuttle can carry 20 passengers, but only has six crew.

The Sentinel-class Landing Craft can carry 20 passengers, but only has six crew.

And that’s it for Sil4 ships that can carry close to that many people.

For Sil5, and a yacht designed to carry luxury-type passengers and have a larger crew, there is the Minstrel-class Space Yacht from Ubrikkian, but then that’s going to be FUGLY and SLOW compared to a Nubian design.

The J-type Diplomatic Barge is also Sil5, but it has a crew of five and only carries ten passengers. The Consular-class Light Assault Cruiser has a crew of nine and only carries sixteen passengers.

I don’t see anything else that is Sil5 or larger and is a yacht or a more luxurious type of ship, and could carry those kinds of numbers of crew and passengers.

Wow.

This is what it look like