For what it's worth, the cargo container interior is probably more of an in-show abstraction.

Destroyer class is simply "Lucas being Lucas and not caring because DESTROYER sounds pompous"

And everything in rebel squadrons is Starfighter.

And Freighters outclass every goddamn military vessel.

Terminology shifts around a lot even in real life.

The Arleigh Burke destroyer class is actually larger than some historical CRUISERS. It's still classed as a destroyer, though. Frigates were once a ship class right below the largest warships (ships of the line), and now it's used to describe tiny escort vessels that are there essentially to suck down torpedoes for a carrier. Nowadays, cruisers and dreadnaughts are dead classes, but could be revived sometime in the future for different purposes.

Class means role, not size.

Destroyer is an escort, patrol craft and submarine killer.

Cruiser is the "workhorse" being balanced in every dimension, able to do anything.

Battleship is XBOXHUGE thing that can obliterate anything, if it manages to get into range.

The Arleigh Burke does a traditional cruiser's job too - it's used to bombard shore targets (what do you think carried out the Iraq War 'shock and awe' attacks?) or fight ship-to-ship. Role shift as well as size shift.

Frigates once were fast ships that served as fast flankers or raiders and formed the bulk of a fleet's combat-ready ships. Now they're nothing but escorts for the center of a battlegroup, or patrol ships.

Your class listing is 70 years obsolete, as only a couple of modern fleets still operate cruisers, and NONE have battleships. The airplane changed everything.

And that's kind of my point: things change . Words change meaning. In however long ago and at whatever distance Star Wars takes place from today, the term 'freighter' apparently includes anything that can carry any amount of cargo, from the massive Bulk Freighters like the one from that Chopper-centric episode to (comparitively) tiny ships like the Falcon and Moldy Crow. Saying "That doesn't make sense and is stupid" violates the basic rule of observing canon: If it is said and not contradicted, then it's a fact and must be treated as such.

Airplanes and missile propulsion is not a thing in space ship battles, because distance and LAZOOOORZ make it all revert to pre-WW2 era tactics, at times even back to XII age ship tactics.

IRL modern missile_anything can perform almost any task aside from submersible "suddenly evaporate east coast" for instance.

IN SPACE it's not a case.

It's no use trying to find some "deep sense" in canon. It can all be simple oversight, and that's normal.

Especially in a world where space pizza 'destroyers' perform battleship roles and aircraft carrier roles.

In any case, the premise that 'freighter is a word that means large ' is simply inaccurate, even today.

Or has nobody ever heard of 'coastal freighters'? Those would be unusual to be over 150', so rather dwarfed by basically any military ship.

Destroyer class is simply "Lucas being Lucas and not caring because DESTROYER sounds pompous"

And everything in rebel squadrons is Starfighter.

And Freighters outclass every goddamn military vessel.

Terminology shifts around a lot even in real life.

The Arleigh Burke destroyer class is actually larger than some historical CRUISERS. It's still classed as a destroyer, though. Frigates were once a ship class right below the largest warships (ships of the line), and now it's used to describe tiny escort vessels that are there essentially to suck down torpedoes for a carrier. Nowadays, cruisers and dreadnaughts are dead classes, but could be revived sometime in the future for different purposes.

Class means role, not size.

Destroyer is an escort, patrol craft and submarine killer.

Cruiser is the "workhorse" being balanced in every dimension, able to do anything.

Battleship is XBOXHUGE thing that can obliterate anything, if it manages to get into range.

The Arleigh Burke does a traditional cruiser's job too - it's used to bombard shore targets (what do you think carried out the Iraq War 'shock and awe' attacks?) or fight ship-to-ship. Role shift as well as size shift.

Frigates once were fast ships that served as fast flankers or raiders and formed the bulk of a fleet's combat-ready ships. Now they're nothing but escorts for the center of a battlegroup, or patrol ships.

Your class listing is 70 years obsolete, as only a couple of modern fleets still operate cruisers, and NONE have battleships. The airplane changed everything.

And that's kind of my point: things change . Words change meaning. In however long ago and at whatever distance Star Wars takes place from today, the term 'freighter' apparently includes anything that can carry any amount of cargo, from the massive Bulk Freighters like the one from that Chopper-centric episode to (comparitively) tiny ships like the Falcon and Moldy Crow. Saying "That doesn't make sense and is stupid" violates the basic rule of observing canon: If it is said and not contradicted, then it's a fact and must be treated as such.

The Progress supply ship is a freighter and yet it's smaller than an X-Wing. Does it carry boxes or bags of stuff to be unloaded at the other end? If yes, then it's a freighter!

In any case, the premise that 'freighter is a word that means large ' is simply inaccurate, even today.

Or has nobody ever heard of 'coastal freighters'? Those would be unusual to be over 150', so rather dwarfed by basically any military ship.

Tell it to the guys who write the Oxford English Dictionary.

They might say "dwarfed by basically any military ship" indicates that military ships tend to be quit large, and wonder why you list military ships as though they're representative of ship sizes. A quick Google for coastal freighter and they look pretty big to me. Significantly bigger than a little speed boat, which is around the smallest powered boats come isn't it? And that's the point - the HWK is about as small as ships in Star Wars get!

Perhaps the HWK is a light freighter in the sense that it can tow small containers around, and that was it's main role. Then the Rebels and scum made use of these towing vehicles for reconnaissance and light combat duties because, maybe, these things are crazy fast and maneuverable when their engines and thrusters are not really spending their brute force moving huge containers.

A dial really fitting to:

"The HWK is second only to the A-wing and the TIE Interceptor in sheer maneuvering muscle".

Yeah FFG did a fantastic job there

I've seen the HWK fly around, and there's absolutely no reason for it to have such an awful dial. If there's any ONE thing about the HWK that TRULY needs a retool, it's that damned, god awful dial.

At least with a TLT, the HWK can live with its dial by slowly trundling around the edges of the engagement. To be honest, as a support ship it is mediocre at best and only taken because of its pilots' abilities. Unlike the Empire where the generic Lambda Shuttle (and probably forthcoming Scimitar Tie shuttle) are worth taking simply for the ability to ferry crew about, I have never seen the generic HWK fielded.

Don't even need TLT when you are scum and have the ability to close distance by decloaking. Cloak-Palob is hilarious!

Palob with Dengar and TLT or other turrets is brutal. But easy to kill with crackshot or uboats.

BTW, whoever it was that said the Moldy Crow was a courier rather than a freighter was mixing it up with the Raven's Claw from Jedi Knight II and Jedi Academy.

BTW, whoever it was that said the Moldy Crow was a courier rather than a freighter was mixing it up with the Raven's Claw from Jedi Knight II and Jedi Academy.