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A Buyer's Guide to Alternative Starships
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"A Buyer's Guide to Alternative Starships" is a roleplaying game source article from Star Wars Adventure Journal 5, written from the point of view of an unnamed Rebel who needed a ship and was talking to a protocol droid known as C-D20 and his counterpart, R2-RD. The story introduced several models of starships. It also included brief sidebars involving the Z-10 and Helix, and a fake ad for the ZH-25.
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Facts
- Title
- A Buyer's Guide to Alternative Starships
- Author
- Stephen Luminati
- Publisher
- West End Games
- Released
- February 1995
- Pages
- 20
- Published in
- Star Wars Adventure Journal 5
Who turns up here
Characters: 10
- Raymus Antilles (mentioned only)
- Dauntarist (first appearance)
- Debret Nightmoon (first appearance)
- Druug (first appearance)
- Larken (first appearance)
- Nopan (first mentioned)
- Sahr (first appearance)
- Unidentified Rebel (hangar) (first appearance)
- R2-RD (first appearance)
- C-D20 (first appearance)
Species: 3
- Barabel
- Mon Calamari (mentioned only)
- Quarren
Galaxy: 2
Starships: 15
- Darknon Station
- Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing (mentioned only)
- T-65 X-wing starfighter (mentioned only)
- YT-1300 light freighter (mentioned only)
- HT-2200 medium freighter
- Helix-class light interceptor
- Kizbon's Box (first appearance)
- Pillage (first appearance)
- Profit (first appearance)
- Pathfinder-class scout ship (mentioned only)
- Z-10 Seeker-class scout ship
- Starlady (first appearance)
- ZH-25 Questor-class
- Vorpal Demise (first appearance)
- Trust Me (first appearance)
Organizations: 18
- Alliance to Restore the Republic
- Ordnance and Supply
- Arakyd Industries
- BlasTech Industries
- Bureau of Ships and Services (mentioned only)
- Corellian Engineering Corporation (mentioned only)
- Fabritech (mentioned only)
- Galactic Empire (mentioned only)
- Imperial Security Bureau (mentioned only)
- Incom Corporation (mentioned only)
- Koensayr Manufacturing (mentioned only)
- Lotek (mentioned only)
- Miradyne Limited (mentioned only)
- Novaldex (mentioned only)
- Sirplex (mentioned only)
- SoroSuub Corporation (mentioned only)
- Starfeld Industries (mentioned only)
- Taim & Bak (mentioned only)
Events: 1
- Ambush near Darknon Station (first appearance)
Technology: 28
- Blaster rifle
- Computer
- LBE flight control computer
- RCS-1
- RCS-6
- Navigation computer
- Concussion missile (mentioned only)
- Deflector shield generator
- GA21 shield generator
- P-12 shield generator
- Hyperdrive
- GBp-625 hyperdrive
- GBp-629 hyperdrive
- 1L10 drive
- H-L Block ion drive
- JV-71 ion engine
- JV-74 ion engine
- Plasburst laser cannon
- Prm-3 pulse laser cannon
- "Queldor" single-barrel laser cannon
- 11P power generator
- Proton torpedo launcher
- ANx-y/2 sensor cluster
- Dedicated energy receptor
- Full-spectrum transceiver
- Life form indicator
- Therma-bonder (first appearance)
- Galactic Credit Standard
Lore: 4
- Agent
- Kathor (first appearance)
- Nutorium (first appearance)
- Trimantium
Media: 1
Everything else: 55
- Jarafok (first mentioned)
- Unidentified pilot (Kizbon's Box) (first appearance)
- Sea slug (mentioned only)
- Astromech droid
- Power droid
- Translator droid
- Captain
- Commander (mentioned only)
- Courier
- Engineer (mentioned only)
- Pilot
- Pirate
- Scout (mentioned only)
- Crotok (first appearance)
- Starfighter (mentioned only)
- Starship
- Freighter
- Light freighter
- Medium freighter
- Scout vessel
- Airlock
- Autoblaster
- Cargo pod
- Flight computer
- Deflector shield
- Fuel cell
- Mark IV fuel cell
- Backup hyperdrive
- Ion cannon
- Ion drive
- Laser cannon
- Pulse laser cannon
- Life support
- Power converter
- Power generator
- Proton torpedo
- Mark V-rated torpedo
- Repulsorlift
- Sensor
- Sensor array
- Astrogation
- Atmosphere
- Black market
- Cubic meter
- Duranium
- Hyperspace
- Imperial standard meter
- Kilometer
- Metric ton
- Safe Starship Regulations (first appearance)
- Standard hour
- Standard minute
- Standard month
- Standard year
- Zero-G crystalline chip (first appearance)
Not in the archive: 2
- Collision chamber
- Mark I
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