First Order Fleet Transport

This article is about the personnel transport. You may be looking for the light transport.

The First Order Fleet Transport was a vehicle used by First Order troops, officers, and personnel to travel quickly to different places aboard massive starships. They were piloted by astromech droids and programmed with ship schematics and security access codes.^[2]

A Resistance unit hijacked four Fleet Transports to rescue captured Resistance recruits on board the Finalizer by reprogramming the R5 units controlling the vehicles. The rescue became complicated when they unexpectedly encountered a pair of All Terrain Armored Transports and other obstacles, including Kylo Ren.^[1]

Behind the scenes

The Fleet Transport serves as the ride vehicle for the Rise of the Resistance at the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge land at Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios. It was revealed in the form of a model at the 2017 D23 Expo's "A Galaxy of Stories" exhibit,^[2] but was first seen in Star Wars Battlefront II on the Unknown Regions map.^[3]

It also appeared on promotional trading cards handed out at the December 16, 2017 "Galactic Nights" event, specifically on the card titled "The rescue doesn't go as planned". The card revealed that one of the rides at the upcoming attraction entailed Resistance members hijacking a Fleet Transport to rescue a captured individual, but ended up caught and surrounded by AT-ATs.^[4] A full-sized vehicle displayed at Star Wars Celebration 2019 featured safety instructions in Aurebesh in addition to the standard English script.^[5]