Why This Company Sells More Civilian Starships Than Anyone

When I was young I would have loved a yt1300, but you know, being middle aged now . . . a Gozanti Class would be perfect

Did I just watch a Commercial for Spaceship manufacturers?

You forgot to mention that during the Clone Wars, Corellia was at the forefront of the Republic's war effort. Senator Garm Bel Iblis constructed his own private armada and served as the cavalry, saving overwhelmed Republic forces from certain doom multiple times, even though on the Senate floor, he continued to attack Palpatine. He also never bought into the Imperial interpretation of the events of Order 66, refusing to believe that the Jedi betrayed the people, and continuing to use quotes and speeches from old Jedi Masters in his tirades against Palpatine. Eventually, the Empire just got tired of it, they arrested Garm's family and executed them, but he escaped along with his entire fleet, which then became a rebel force of its own. Garm was also rather wary of the Rebel Alliance, considering that Mon Mothma wielded way too much power in his eyes. Bail Organa was originally the true leader of the Rebel Alliance, and Mon was just supposed to be the one who gets their infantry while Garm was supposed to be in charge of the Alliance navy. But when Bail died, Mon Mothma replaced him, and Garm never sat well with that. He also disapproved of how the Rebellion conducted the war; he felt that they were too clumsy considering that they lost so many battles to the Empire; news of rebel bases being seized were very common during the Galactic Civil War, hence why Garm felt that joining such a sloppy military outfit was out of the question for his elite forces.

Corellian Engineering Corporation doesn't abuse its monopoly in the civilian starship market, and instead sells its machinery at very affordable prices. They actually understand that cheap, but efficient, starships will sell better overall than expensive ones. Plus, with the extremely modular designs of their ships, they WANT customers to modify the ships they buy. They've realized that if they do what they can to make customers happy, they can become much more successful. Shipmaking is their passion and I think it's really cool.

CEC was a military powerhouse back then. During the wars against the Sith in the SWTOR era, they might as well have been another army unto themselves. I remember invading CEC's HQ as a Sith back in the SWTOR Corellia planetary questline for the Sith Empire, and the place was as heavily-armed as any Republic military base.

I used to work for a software corporation in Oregon named Corillian. Founded by a star wars fanboy. All the conference rooms were named after SW planets. Since been bought out multiple times. There is always a bigger fish.

I'm not surprised by the popularity of CEC's ships, the main character in my Star Wars fan fiction owned a modified YT-1300 that appeared to be unarmed but eventually carried two heavy laser cannons, trio of Skipray medium capital ship ion cannons, and two YT-1300 power cores and a .6 hyperdrive. When that was crashed due to a droid malfunction, he "borrowed" a YT-1300 center cockpit from an Imperial impound yard. There is nothing like YT series freighter.

It amazes me that we have never had many prominent starfighters manufactured by CEC knowing that they are great starship builders

If Din Djarin manages to get a new ship, I think he should get the freighter similar to a certain war criminal’s ship the Twilight. It would be perfect to act as a mothership to his N1 starfighter during his job for the New Republic

As soon as I saw the title, I knew it was about CEC. If I lived in the Star Wars galaxy, I’d absolutely own a CEC ship

I do love CEC's design philosophy of a simple, good starter pack with specialization extras sold separately. It really adds a lot of surprise for all their ships because you'll never know what the pilot added until they use it.

Thanks Allan for always staying here for us!

A thriving aftermarket is a sign of a well designed product. I'm no Civic fan, but Honda got it right when they designed it. Cheap, reliable, and easily customizable. Kinda like the YT-1300. I gotta correct Alan about cars. Once roads and highways you can get up to a decent speed became common, they were pretty big by necessity just to fit an affordable engine. From the 1950s onward, they got smaller and smaller as technology advanced, especially after the Carter years jacked up gas prices. If anything, cars got too small to be comfortable, and crossovers are the pendulum swinging back to a more or less happy medium. Personally, if it can't tow at least a toy hauler up a iced over mountain road, I'm not interested, so crossovers are too small for my taste.

The gozanti class is what you want when you have a large crew, run a small-medium sized merchant/trader business, and can afford a small security detail be it droids or paid guards. A YT1300 is what you want when you want the ultimate freedom of the galactic frontier. You can carry plenty of cargo space and still run a small business from it, but it holds less crew space. It’s also cheaper and faster. But the most important thing to me is captain’s quarter size. If I scrounge up enough credits after years of in-system planetary trading say between the Five Brothers or another system with multiple habitable planets, I’ll want a ship I can live and work in comfortably. Maybe I’d go for the YT1300 first and then hand it in with a bunch of credits for a gozanti class down the line. Or I’ll got for an older, cheaper ship made by CEC like a YT2400 that can save me more credits for a gozanti while providing similar functionality to a YT1300. Or maybe a C9 Rigger-class light freighter, if I am not that worried about cargo space but I still want to be able to carry some stuff and have a nice place for a small crew and myself to rest out heads

Also all YT series ship are costume made to the buyer. Often have 4 types of engines, 5 types of cockpits, 10 interior designs/layouts, 3 types of landing gears, 5 to 11 weapon hardpoints, F-type (Freight), P-type(Passenger), FP-type(Freight & Passenger), armored, and exterior sealed storage compartments to double the cargo capacity.

I once ran a SW character that was a smuggler. His YT 1760 had Ewok fur on all the seats.

CEC so good at making ships that the Empire tried to regulate and ban the YV-929 armed freighter and presumably stopped the Vanguard heavy assault gunship production after only making what is assumed just one prototype since we only ever saw just one used a single time and it had such destructive power. CEC for life

On the SUV thing you got it backwards, car manufacturers started advertising them as family vehicles (and have now shifted to pick-ups) because they realised they can make more money of them than making actually useful, economical vehicles for their owners. And that advertising shaped the customers wants

The light freighter is basically a cross between a family RV and a Freight Truck, or part yatch and part river boat.

it would be pretty cool if the starwars RPG had an entire source book for JUST CEC ships and its customisation options