Why the LUCREHULK is a GENIUS Capital Ship | Star Wars Lore

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The lucrehulk is a genius capital ship until a kid in a naboo star fighter shows up

Trade Federation: "Our capital ship is impenetrable." Ani: "I'll try spinning that's a good trick." TF: "He can't do that. Shoot him or something!"

Republic: Hey, you can't make big scary dangerous ships! Trade Federation: We need to defend our freighters. Republic: Yeah sure no problem.

When I first saw this ship, I thought its a Space Station, rather than a moving Capital Ship... Mainly due to the donut shape...

Well yeah, it's the donut ship, no other capital ship can come close to the donut ship and its glory

Historically, cargo freighter converted to military use has been very common, from Renaissance galleons to camouflaged privateers in both world wars.

The Lucrehulk is probably my favorite Capital Ship in Star Wars. It's so adaptable to any use. It can be freighter, fighter carrier, battleship, mobile base. I could even see it being possibly some rich guy's personal traveling palace. Or even a small moving city. Safe to say, if I could own any Ship in Star Wars, it would be a Lucrehulk.

General Skywalker said he destroyed one of these when he was a kid

Kinda reminds me of German tank development pre-ww2. With the Versailles Treaty not allowing the Germans to build or develop tanks, the Germans built, design and tested 'Tractors' that they could utilized to test suspension designs.

Reads details of the Ruusan Reformation Grand Moff Tarkin: "Looks like I've got a lot of work to do."

This makes me think that Amazon warehouses could be easily turned into military factories to overthrow the government

Honestly this was my favorite ship from TPM and TCW TV show.

I always thought that the Trade Federation doing business in the outer rim and having to fight off pirates or something would've been a much better motivation than the taxation of trade routes. They're sick of having to pay for their droids to do it and want the Republic to foot the bill, militarizing to get rid of the pirates or something but Naboo was saying "no we don't need to militarize, fighting off pirates is the cost of doing business in the outer rim." So the Trade Federation blockades the planet to prove that the Republic does need to get their act together in case a real threat comes along. And of course all that business they're doing in the outer rim is mostly weapons deals in preparation for the upcoming separatist movement. But then I'm not a huge lore buff, just a guy who watched the movies and spent a very little bit of time on wookiepedia.

When I was little I used to call them “Hugger Ships” cuz they always looked like they wanted to give me a hug

Why did Force-users need matched/attuned Kyber crystals for their lightsabers? What was the benefit to a good match or the drawback of a bad one? #AskEck

What is underappreciated is what a brilliant logistical design they were. They were already refined and optimised, with a whole spare parts infrastructure. No hastily built ship that had bugs to be ironed out. All they really had to do besides add guns and shields was install a safety so that the doors to the reactor couldn't be open the same time as the outer hanger doors were … … And the automation was crucial, if the GAR had implemented ship automation for basic task to the same extent (saving clones just for combat operations) they would have had a lot more forces available. Post clone wars they would have made a great mobile base for rebels as well, especially as maintenance and spares would be available and crew requirements were ridiculously low. The CIS could have had a lot more of these if they had wanted to during the lead up time.

Who would win? One Trade Federation Capital ship OR One pod racing boi

James Luceno is great for this kinda connectivity its why i liked his Agents of Chaos books in the NJO series and Cloak of Deception which illustrates how the Neimoidians gained a majority hold in the Trade Federation.

Turning a freighter into a carrier is a time honored tradition of earth militaries. There is a very large overlap of requirements. It certainly helped that those ships were heavily shielded and armored. Even if their gun weaponry was rather weak (being only a refitted, giant freighter).