Rogue-Class Imperial Transport

Rogue-Class Imperial TransportThe Rogue-Class Imperial Transport was a multi-purpose transport starship designed and developed by Sienar Fleet Systems for use in the Imperial Navy

Description
The Rogue-class Imperial Transport was designed by Sienar Fleet Systems for use as a general purpose multirole transport for the Imperial Navy. The ship was large and modular, being able to accomodate multiple configurations meant for various roles, from luxury shuttle to troop carrier to gunship. The project was ambitious from the start, being a completely original design not based on any previous line of starships, though the design overall still beared several Sienar trademarks, with angular edges and two solar panel wings on either side of the ship.

History
Originally developed to be the Imperial Navy's mainline transport, the Rogue-class was built from the ground up to fit a variety of roles in the Imperial Navy, with the ability to be configured into various types of ship in order to suit any purpose. The ship was truly a top-of-the-line vessel, and Sienar Fleet Systems had built a number of the ships in anticipation of orders. While the Imperial Navy initially did show interest, with the modularity of the ship being a very positive aspect of the ship, the relatively massive cost of the ship compared to other ships proved too costly for the Imperial Navy, which instead opted for quantity over quality. Sienar abandoned production of the  Rogue-class in favor of the Lambda-class transport, which was both easier and less costly to produce and procure.

In order to offset some of the losses accumulated from production, Sienar instead opted to sell the ships to the civilian market, in hopes of recouping some of the project's costs. Though the ships were stripped of weapons and the more advanced systems as a military ship, the modularity was still kept intact in the hopes that they could sell to practical customers. However, the cost of each unit was still quite high compared to other ships of a comparable role, especially the YT series of freighters manufactured by Corellian Engineering Corporation, which had the advantage of being less costly and possessing an established backing of parts and modular systems. This meant that only a few Rogue-class ships were sold, and the rest were either repurposed for other roles outside of or supplementary to the Imperial Navy or scrapped altogether for parts.

Although the project was deemed a failure by Sienar Fleet Systems, the ships that were purchased by civilians, or more often bounty hunters or smugglers, eventually proved to be quite formidable. The modularity of the ship meant that, while it didn't have an established base of dedicated parts or systems, it could easily be modified to accept existing components, and for the few who managed to get them off the ground they proved to be effective and reliable vessels for civilians and smugglers alike.

One such vessel, purchased by bounty hunter Craz Madda and named the Black Dawn, saw extensive service in the Bounty Hunter's Guild before being acquired by Ren Silber. Being renamed the Sovereign Outcast and later overhauled from the ground up, the ship became just as renown as its crew, serving with the Rebel Alliance for a brief time before becoming a vessel dedicated to the Jedi Order as a force to fight against the injustice of the Galactic Empire and its Sith overlords.