Transport Three

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"Transport Three, secure your cargo and prepare to launch."
―Captain Wilco orders Transport Three to launch[2]

Transport Three was a class four container transport in service to the Galactic Empire between 19 BBY and 18 BBY.

Characteristics

Transport Three was a Class four container transport, a model of heavy bulk freighter utilized by the Galactic Empire to carry large amounts of cargo, being able to carry up to 210 large containers in a compartment on its rear. It was equipped with six escape pods on the bow near the bridge to allow the crew to quickly evacuate the ship; these could be remotely jettisoned from the bridge in case of a hostile boarding action to trap hijackers on board. It was piloted by two pilots seated in a tandem cockpit station and carried a clone trooper security team to protect its cargo. Each of its containers featured re-entry thrusters which could be fired within planetary atmospheres to allow them to slow their descent was the crew to be forced to detach them. A number of engineering stations scattered around the ship provided access to its schematics and data about its operation and flight path.[2]

Role

Transport Three was used during the Empire's post-Clone Wars cleanup operation on Serenno to extract part of the late Count Dooku's war chest off-world.[2]

History

Between 19 BBY and 18 BBY,[5] Transport Three was one of three class four container transports stationed[2] on the planet[6] Serenno, where it was meant to carry large portions of the deceased Separatist leader Count Dooku's war chest from his ruined palace off-world. As Transport Three was docked in the palace's shipyard, the renegade clone squad Clone Force 99 attempted to steal a small amount of its cache by boarding one of its cargo containers, prompting the clone captain on-site, Wilco, to order Transport Three to make an emergency take-off.[2]

Upon being informed that some of Clone Force 99's members were still on the ship, Wilco ordered its pilots to jettison the transport's escape pods to trap them on board. As a result, the stowaway clones instead detached Transport Three's cargo containers while hiding inside one, descending to Serenno's surface slowly using the container's re-entry thrusters.[2] The incident resulted in 15% of Transport Three's cache becoming unaccounted for.[7]

Behind the scenes

Transport Three first appeared on the first episode of the second season of the Disney+ show Bad Batch.

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles — Based on corresponding traits for all class four container transports
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 TBBtemplate Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Spoils of War"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Rebels-mini-logo Star Wars Rebels — "The Forgotten Droid" — Based on corresponding traits for all class four container transports
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 StarWars-DatabankII Imperial Cargo Ship in the Databank (backup link)
  5. ↑ Per the reasoning here, the seventh and eighth episodes of The Bad Batch Season 2, "The Clone Conspiracy" and "Truth and Consequences," can be placed in 18 BBY. Therefore, all Season 2 episodes proceeding "The Clone Conspiracy" occur between 19 BBY, which features the end of The Bad Batch Season 1 according to Star Wars: Timelines, and 18 BBY. The Galactic Empire, the formation of which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 19 BBY, sent Mayday's squad to Barton IV over a year prior to the events of the twelfth episode, "The Outpost." As it occurs over a year into the Imperial Era and is set shortly after the events of "Truth and Consequences," the events of "The Outpost" occur around 18 BBY. Following that logic, the ninth through eleventh episodes ("The Crossing" through "Metamorphosis") are also set around 18 BBY because they occur between the events of "Truth and Consequences" and "The Outpost." Finally, all season 2 episodes set after "The Outpost" occur shortly after its events, thereby placing those episodes around 18 BBY as well.
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 70 Guide to the Galaxy: Serenno — Home of Count Dooku
  7. ↑ TBBtemplate Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Ruins of War"
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