User:Ifindyourlackoffaithdisturbing/Workbench

Description
A 578-R space transport manufactured by Amalgamated Hyperdyne and Refuse Management, The Last Resort served as both a vehicle, home and workshop for Arkanian Offshoot scientist Gorman Vandrayk, who lived in the ship for years with his protector and companion Jarael. During The Last Resort years sitting idly in the Lower City of the planet Taris, Vandrayk made many modifications to the ship's systems. Vandrayk configured a powerful laser cannon for the ship at the expense of The Last Resort shields and hyperdrive. Vandrayk paid little attention to the ship's life support systems, allowing allergens and molds to build up in the The Last Resort air filtration system which were released when the ship flew again. The ship also had a comm unit capable of broadcasting holographic messages. The Last Resort had a sizable cargo deck that also contained Vandrayk's workshop, and several "Camper special" compartments that he used for smuggling sentients. Like all 578-R space transports, The Last Resort had a number of components and systems licensed by the Corellian Engineering Corporation, which made the ship easier to customize as replacement parts were extremely easy to find.

Living compartments were located on the upper deck, accessible from the main deck via only a single ladder that led into the ship's bridge&mdash; towards the front of the ship was the cockpit, which had four seats, two up front for a pilot and co-pilot and one on either side, along with flight controls and transparisteel viewports. The crew cabins were two separate rooms, each with a single bed, surrounding the ship's airlock and dorsal hatch and connected on either side with a small crew lounge and the ship's engine room. On the lower level, The Last Resort had two boarding ramps towards the rear of the ship, and a single junk receptacle in the center of the cargo deck. The Last Resort had a maximum speed of 800 km/h at sublight, and was equipped with a Class 3 hyperdrive. Also equipped with a navicomputer, The Last Resort was normally crewed by two individuals but could be flown effectively with only one aboard. The ship had room for 10 passengers, 40 tons of cargo, and four months' worth of consumables. The Last Resort carried a value of about 75,000 credits new, and 28,000 used.

History
Manufactured by Amalgamated Hyperdyne on the planet Corellia, The Last Resort was one of the last 578-R transports to leave the company's assembly yards before the Amalgamated Hyperdyne's demise over civil suits relating to safety recalls. The ship eventually fell into the hands of Arkanian Offshoot scientist Gorman Vandrayk, who used The Last Resort in his flight from his former employer, the Arkanian bioengineering giant Adascorp&mdash;after Vandrayk refused to help Adascorp weaponize the massive space slugs known as exogorths, he broke his contract and went on the run, pursued by the company for decades. Vandrayk eventually added a passenger, a young Offshoot named Jarael, whom Vandrayk helped escape from the notorious slaving ring known as the Crucible. The pair settled in the Lower City of the planet Taris, bringing The Last Resort down in a barren junkyard known as Junk Junction. Parked on top of a disused clothing factory and unregistered with the Galactic Republic, The Last Resort became the home for the two Offshoots for several years, disguised so thoroughly with tents and awnings that most visitors never realized that it was a starship. Always very handy with machines, Vandrayk turned The Last Resort into his own personal junk hauler, and additionally placed booby traps in the massive piles of trash located on the approach to the ship.

Known to the outside world as "Camper," Vandrayk tinkered with the ship so extensively that by 3964 BBY he had forgotten what he had done to which systems. While Jarael dedicated herself to protect Vandrayk as he aged and his mental faculties diminished, the pair rarely left their home&mdash; what few visitors came to The Last Resort were usually criminals, as Vandrayk became known in underworld circles for refitting old escape pods to conceal wanted fugitives. Although the pair of Offshoots were content with their anonymity, everything changed for them in 3964 BBY, when the two most wanted men on Taris showed up at The Last Resort: Zayne Carrick, a Jedi Padawan falsely accused of slaying his classmates at Taris' Jedi Tower, and his Snivvian "accomplice" Marn Hierogryph, a self-styled "crime lord" who had had dealings with Vandrayk before and wanted his help to ship Carrick offworld. The fugitives' arrival attracted the attention of law enforcement and a group of pursuing Jedi Masters, prompting Vandrayk and Jarael to immediately dash up to the ship's cockpit and take to the skies. The ship had not flown in years and quickly lost power after leaving Taris' atmosphere, Vandrayk was able to restore power just as Taris patrol craft closed in on the ship, and was able to evade pursuit by flying The Last Resort into the system's asteroid belt.

Although Vandrayk had restored power to the ship and fixed the ship's thruster control, the Offshoot still had a lot of work to do, so the group decided to stay in the asteroid belt overnight and tackle the work in the morning. Noticing that the comm system was still working, Carrick flew The Last Resort clear of the asteroid belt and used it to contact the Jedi Enclave on the planet Dantooine, in the hopes that he would be able to convince Jedi Master Vandar Tokare of his innocence and inform him that it was actually the Taris Jedi Masters who had slain the students. Tokare did not believe Carrick's story, and the conversation was quickly terminated when Jarael knocked Carrick out with her shockstaff. With Carrick incapacitated, Jarael brought the ship back into the shelter of the asteroid belt&mdash;Carrick's "stunt," as Jarael had called it, had attracted the attention of the Jedi Masters still pursuing them. Carrick still hoped to find out why the massacre had happened, and his search led The Last Resort to the rogue moon, an anomalous planetoid in the Taris asteroid field that was constantly bombarded by meteorites and also the last place Carrick, his classmates and their Masters had all been together before the killings. Vandrayk dropped Carrick and Jarael off on the promontory that the Jedi had gathered, but with the ship's shields still not functioning, Vandrayk had to pull The Last Resort around to the other side of the moon so that they were not obliterated by asteroids. Carrick and Jarael managed to find the remains of a droid that might have seen what the Masters were doing on the rogue moon, but before they could hail The Last Resort, they were found.

The Jedi Masters, along with a crew of Taris law enforcement, dropped in off a patrol personnel carrier and cornered Carrick and Jarael against a cliff wall. Before the pursuers could make a move, however, The Last Resort flew in and destroyed the personnel carrier with a single laser blast, giving Carrick and Jarael the opportunity they needed to board the ship and escape with the droid, T1-LB. Although Hierogryph had a clear shot on Carrick's former Master, Lucien Draay, Carrick told him to leave him behind and retreat to the asteroid belt. Once The Last Resort was ensconced deep within the debris field, Vandrayk began trying to retrieve T1-LB's memory data in the ship's cargo hold. Vandrayk succeeded in restoring the droid and even gave it the ability to speak, which it previously lacked&mdash;in the droid's memory, they found a recording of the Jedi Masters having a vision that one of their Padawans was going to bring about the demise of the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic, and their decision to slay their apprentices. The crew of The Last Resort did not have much time to dwell on this revelation, however, as they soon found themselves caught in a tractor beam from a new, unfamiliar starship. Hierogryph recognized their captor as the Oroko, personal vessel of pirate and bounty hunter Valius Ying, an acquaintance of Hierogryph's. Once The Last Resort was pulled into the Oroko docking bay, Hierogryph began negotiating with Ying.

Hierogryph found that the Republic's bounty only covered him and Carrick by name&mdash;since The Last Resort was unregistered and the two Offshoots had done such a good job covering their tracks over the years, the Republic did not know who they were. Hierogryph was able to arrange a deal that would allow him and the Offshoots safe passage aboard The Last Resort, which Ying would say was destroyed in the asteroid belt, in exchange for Carrick and the codes to Hierogryph's planetside storehouses. Although Carrick briefly tried to steal The Last Resort and escape himself, he eventually acquiesced and decided that he was going to turn himself in for the good of Vandrayk and Jarael. Surprised by Carrick's selfless act, the group decided to save him. Hierogryph bribed the Oroko first mate to release The Last Resort in orbit around Taris, and the ship provided covering fire on the Taris Jedi Tower before Jarael swooped in to save Carrick from execution in the nick of time. The Jedi Masters could only watch as the pair escaped to The Last Resort, with Carrick having a final exchange of words with Draay from the ship's boarding dock as The Last Resort pulled off to leave Taris behind for good.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3: Commencement, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 4: Commencement, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 5: Commencement, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 6: Commencement, Part 6
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Flashpoint
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Reunion
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Days of Fear
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Nights of Anger
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Daze of Hate
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 34: Vindication, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 37: Prophet Motive, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 40: Dueling Ambitions, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 47: Demon, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 47: Demon, Part 1