The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels

The ninth book in Del Rey's Essential Guide series, The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels features an in-depth look at one hundred ships, fighters, and other flying machines from the original trilogy, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, as well as the Expanded Universe, including the New Jedi Order series, each with its own one- to two-page spread including detailed schematics. There were, however, some glaring errors throughout the book.
It was reprinted as part of The New Essential Guide to Characters, Weapons and Technology, and Vehicles and Vessels in 2005.
==Contents==
*Introduction
*A Layperson's Guide to Technology
*Major Manufacturers
*Armored Assault Tank
*Anakin's Airspeeder
*Airspeeder Classification
**V-wing airspeeder
**T-24 airspeeder
**Talon I combat cloud car
**Utilitech Metrocab
**TaggeCo. cargohopper
**Gaba-18 airspeeder
**Zam's airspeeder
**Anakin's airspeeder
**J12 twin-pod airspeeder
**M31-Speeder
**T-77 Experimental Airspeeder
**Tsik vai (Yuuzhan Vong flier)
*All Terrain Armored Transport
*All Terrain Personal Transport
*All Terrain Scout Transport
*All Terrain Tactical Enforcer
*RZ-1 A-wing interceptor
*Tribubble bongo
*B-wing starfighter
*Nssis-class Clawcraft
*CloakShape fighter
*Storm IV Twin-Pod cloud car
*OG-9 homing spider droid
*Yorik-et (Coralskipper)
*NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcer
*Bantha-II cargo skiff
*Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship
*Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I
*Eclipse-class dreadnought
*E-wing escort starfighter
*Executor-class Star Dreadnought (Executor)
*Seraph-class urban landspeeder
*Nantex-class territorial defense starfighter
*V-19 landspeeder
*IG-227 Hailfire-class droid tank
*Scurrg H-6 Bomber (Havoc)
*YV-666 light freighter (Hound's Tooth)
*I-7 Howlrunner
*Aggressor assault fighter (IG-2000)
*Sentinel-class landing craft
*Lambda-class T-4a shuttle (Tydirium)
*"Villie Special" Big Wing (Inferno)
*Immobilizer 418 cruiser
*Luxury-class sail barge (Khetanna)
*Sekotan Personal Starship (Jabitha)
*Horizon-class star yacht (Jade Shadow)
*Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor
*HAVw A5 Juggernaut
*BTL-S8 K-wing assault starfighter
*Personal Luxury Yacht 3000 (Lady Luck)
*Luke's landspeeder
*Landspeeder Classification
**Watto's landspeeder
**V-35 Courier
**A-A5 Speeder Truck
**Arrow-23 landspeeder
**Astral-8
**Tantive IV landspeeder
**JG-8 luxury landspeeder
**LUX-3 landspeeder
**XP-38A utility landspeeder
**Luke's landspeeder
**V-19 landspeeder
**Seraph-class urban landspeeder
**Lars' landspeeder
*YT-1300 light freighter (Millennium Falcon)
*MC80 Star Cruiser (Home One)
*Multi-Troop Transport
*J-type diplomatic barge
*J-type 327 Nubian royal starship
*N-1 starfighter
*YT-2400 light freighter (Outrider)
*Padmé's H-type Nubian yacht
*Podracer (Anakin's)
*Podracer Classification
**Ben Quadinaros's |Podracer
**Ratts Tyerell's Podracer
**Boles Roor's Podracer
**Dud Bolt's Podracer
**Anakin Skywalker's Podracer
**Mars Guo's Podracer
**Sebulba's Podracer
**Teemto Pagalies's Podracer
**Aldar Beedo's Podracer
**Neva Kee's Podracer
**Gasgano's Podracer
**Ark Roose's Podracer
**Ody Mandrell's Podracer
**Elan Mak's Podracer
**Ebe E. Endocott's Podracer
**Mawhonic's Podracer
**Wan Sandage's Podracer
**Clegg Holdfast's Podracer
**Knire Dark's Podracer
**Zanales's Podracer
*Rebel CR90 Corellian Corvette (Tantive IV)
*Rebel EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate (Redemption)
*Rebel GR-75 medium transport (Bright Hope)
*Acclamator-class assault ship
*Consular-class space cruiser (Radiant VII)
*Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
*Sandcrawler
*Cutlass-9 patrol fighter (Sharp Spiral)
*Star Courier prototype (Scimitar)
*FC-20 speeder bike (Bloodfin)
*T-16 skyhopper
*Firespray-class starship (Slave I)
*T-47 airspeeder
**Snowspeeder
*Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop
*74-Z speeder bike
*Self-Propelled Heavy Artillery
*Single Trooper Aerial Platform
*Imperial I-class Star Destroyer
*Air-2 racing swoop
*Swoop Classification
**Overracer
**Flare-S swoop
**FC-20 speeder bike
**JR-4 swoop
**MVR-3 speeder bike
**Peregrine-240 swoop
**74-Z speeder bike
**Flitknot speeder
**Zephyr-G swoop
**Keluda's speeder bike
*Hardcell-class interstellar transport
*TIE Advanced x1
*TIE bomber
*TIE Defender
*TIE fighter
*TIE Interceptor
*Vangaak
*StarViper-class attack platform (Virago)
*V-wing airspeeder
*Action VI bulk transport (Wild Karrde)
*T-65 X-wing starfighter
*Yorik-trema
*Miid ro'ik
*Koros-Strohna
*BTL Y-wing starfighter
*Z-95 Headhunter
*Appendices
**A Short History of War
**The Battle of Naboo
**The First Battle of Geonosis
**The Battle of Yavin
**The Battle of Hoth
**The Battle of Endor
**Other Vehicles and Vessels of Note
***A-9 Vigilance interceptor
***Amphibion
***A-vek Iiluunu
***Starmite-class freighter (Bria)
***Carrack-class light cruiser
***Chariot LAV
***Chu'unthor
***Talon I combat cloud car
***Coral Vanda
***Dreadnaught-class cruiser
***Enforcer One
***Quasar Fire-class bulk cruiser (Flurry)
***Guardian Mantis
***Hapan Battle Dragon
***Hapes Nova-class battle cruiser
***KR-TB "Doomtreader" (Hell's Anvil)
***Heyblibber
***Hornet Interceptor
***Seltiss-2 caravel
***Xiytiar-class transport (Hyperspace Marauder)
***I'Friil Ma-Nat
***Y-4 Raptor-class transport
***Ithullian ore hauler
***Minstrel-class space yacht (Star Jewel)
***Luxury 3000 (Jade's Fire)
***Jade Sabre
***Amphibious Interstellar Assault Transport/infantry (Jaster's Legacy)
***Lancer-class frigate
***Kor Chokk (Legacy of Torment)
***Marauder-class corvette
***E-2 asteroid mining vehicle (Marauder Starjacker)
***Miy'til assault bomber
***Miy'til starfighter
***HWK-290 light freighter (Moldy Crow)
***MC80B Star Cruiser (Mon Remonda)
***MorningStar
***Mountain Terrain Armored Transport
***NB-1S Royal Bomber
***Coruscant-class Heavy Courier (Nebulon Ranger)
***Sheathipede-class shuttle (Lapiz Cutter)
***TIE Phantom
***S40K Phoenix Hawk-class light pinnace
***TX-130 Saber-class fighter tank
***Ro'ik chuun m'arh
***Sabaoth starfighter
***Scarab-class starfighter
***Scimitar assault bomber
***Shieldship
***Sith Meditation Sphere
***Sh'rip Sh'pa
***Shree-class battle cruiser (Shriwirr)
***Skipray Blastboat
***Pursuer-class enforcement ship (Slave II)
***Speeder bus
***Sh'ner-class planetary assault carrier
***Fw'Sen-class picket ship
***Star Home
***Starlight Intruder
***Conqueror-class assault ship (Stinger)
***Storm
***Sun Crusher
***Suuv Ban D'Krid
***Ithorian Herdship (Tafanda Bay)
***TIE/ad starfighter
***TIE crawler
***TIE/D automated starfighter
***TIE/fc starfighter
***TIE/gt starfighter
***TIE/rc starfighter
***TIE/sh shuttle
***TIE Vanguard
***TYE-wing
***Trade Federation gunboat
***Tsik vai
***Uro-ik v'alh
***Uumufalh
***Yorik-stronha (Stalking Moon)
***Yorik-ta
***Zoomer
**Hyperdrive Classification
==Appearances==
==Errors==
*An MTT is referred to as an AAT.
*Home One illustration is the incorrect type of Mon Cal cruiser.
*On the Home One schematics, "Turbolaser Pod" is "2" whilst "Sensor Array" is "3," but the schematics show "Turbolaser Pod" as being "3" instead of "2."
*AT-ATs are listed at 15 meters tall.
*The Executor is listed at 12,800 meters long.
*Because the book was published prior to the release of Revenge of the Sith, fighter acceleration is scaled without consideration of Revenge of the Sith–era fighters such as the Eta 2 Actis, V-wing or ARC-170 that they were designed to replace and have inexplicably lower performance statistics in spite of sources such as Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader stating that TIE Fighters could outperform V-wings and Eta 2s, as well as Vader flying the TIE Advanced x1 in A New Hope rather than an Eta 2.
*The affiliation for the A-wing is listed as Galactic Empire instead of Rebel Alliance.
*Guri is claimed to be a cyborg when she is a human replica droid.
*The Battle of Endor is called the "final battle" of the Galactic Civil War, but the war actually ended 15 years after Endor upon the conclusion of the Battle of Yaga Minor.
*Captain Tarpals' "ouch time" line is used as the quote for the AAT, despite the line actually being in response to the activation of the battle droid ranks.
==Sources==
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==Notes and references==
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