The Rusty Magpie (YT-1000 Freighter)
So remember that thing where I made the Comic Shorts characters but like Star Wars-ified?
Well, I kind of caught a world-building bug lately, and may have sort of started turning those couple of sentences of random lore I wrote about "Star Wars Tailii" into a full blown fanfiction centered around her. I've basically written a whole Wiki page worth of backstory and created 3 completely new OCs (so far) to be part of her story (and have to stop myself from writing spinoff stories about all of THEM because they were also a lot of fun to develop.)
Anyway. More on that in future posts. This one is about Tailii's ship, The Rusty Magpie.
Obviously she needs a way to get around the galaxy, and a way to haul around all the shiny things she picks up along the way. So a freighter, probably. Can't pick something that's already iconic, so the YT-2400 and 1300 aren't even in the running.
Went ship shopping on Wookieepedia, where they helpfully list all of the YT series freighters by number.
The YT-1930 looks really cool, and I was this close to picking it. It was between the 1930 and the 1000, and it was the lore details that made me go with the 1000. Apparently the 1930 had a limited production run, and is therefore quite rare and expensive. Probably not in the budget for a treasure hunter living job-to-job.
The 1000 is regarded as terribly outdated by the post Clone Wars era, and therefore extremely cheap as far as ships go. (20K used? You got a deal!)
It was already an antique when Tailii got it, but she takes good care of it. She refers to it by masculine pronouns, and often affectionately calls it "old man."
Also the name I picked is a VERY subtle reference that I strongly doubt anybody is going to put together, so I'll give you a hint: I picked Sulon for Tailii's home world for a very specific reason.
