Nebulon Ranger

The Nebulon Ranger was the famous Coruscant-class Heavy Courier flown 4,000 years before the Battle of Yavin by human brothers Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma and their Twi'lek companion Tott Doneeta, all of them Jedi Knights. The Coruscant-class Heavy Courier had a fearsome reputation as a military starship of the Republic. It was developed by Corellia StarDrive (CSD for short) which developed and built the vast majority of the military vehicles used by the Old Republic then. The heavy courier had been developed for dangerous missions on the Galactic frontier, including law enforcement and courier jobs.

Because of this reputation, this led to incresed orders by the Old Republic, and to the use of the courier by the Jedi Order. The Jedi undestood that the might of the courier itself, combined with the Force powers of a Jedi crew would be enough to bring all but the most determined hostiles to the negotiating table with no blood spoiled. If combat was required however, then the Nebulon ranger and other Coruscant-class heavy couriers could provide mighty enemies since they had both the firepower and the agility to be effective in combat.

The Coruscant-class Heavy Courier was a fast and agile vehicles thanks to its 6 Alderaan Motors power generators and engines mounted in two distinctive boxes of three, set at 90 dgrees to each other on a starframe around which the rest of the vessel was constructed. This right-angled design gave the Courier increased agility without adding the weight of increased manoeuvring jets. The large wing on the cockpit's right side was the Nebulon Ranger's most notable feature. At a 45-degree angle to the cockpit, the heavily armoured wings had retractable fins for better control in atmospheric flights. The airlock and sensor array pylon were also visible on the wing.

The weapons of such craft included rotating laser cannons mounted in the craft's large wing. The pulse cannon above the craft's cockpit was the most visible weapon the Coruscant-class Heavy Courier had. In the "madibles" on either side of the cockpit were a pair of proton torpedo launchers and one single short- range concussion sphere launcher. There was also a rotating laser cannon fixed at the base of the outer engine array. The ship was protected by 8 shield generators but the power they consumed meant that they could only be deployed in combat.

The ship also featured an access corridor in the neck that held a boarding ramp and escape hatch, led to the living area. The drop bay at the base of the craft was used for the hasty deployment of the airspeeders the three Jedi Knights kept onboard in the cargo hold.