Skiff

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Skiff

Basic Information -

Size: 9.2 meters long
Manufacturer: Ubrikkian
Type: Cargo skiff
Associations: Barada; Fortuna, Bib; Skiff; Snitkin, Pote


Surface utility vehicles used for the transport of passengers and cargo, skiffs are simple repulsorlift platforms that float about on antigravity fields. Jabba the Hutt used 9.2-meter long cargo skiffs as companion craft to his massive sail barge. A single pilot stands at a tiller's position at the rear of the skiff and guides the vehicle by manipulating two dish-shaped steering vanes on each side of the craft. To assist in cargo handling, the skiff features loading planks and a powerful electromagnet for lifting heavy loads aboard. Jabba employed a small fleet of Ubrikkian Bantha-II cargo skiffs, named after the hardy work beasts found throughout the galaxy. These flatbed vehicles could carry over 100 tons of cargo. Their robust repulsorlift field generators can lift a fully loaded skiff up to 50 meters off the ground, and provide a surprisingly swift top speed of 250 kilometers per hour. Since the skiffs aren't very maneuverable, and their fully loaded inertia makes them difficult to control, very few pilots would dare push a skiff that fast. Skiffs are often pressed into passenger duty, especially on poor frontier worlds that can't afford better-suited vehicles. Almost anyone can learn to pilot a skiff, and the vehicles are often controlled by labor droids.