Dash Rendar is a cocky smuggler who, despite his abrasive and mercenary personality, aids the Rebel Alliance in the fight to overthrow the Empire. Dash flew with the Rebels at the Battle of Hoth and uses his ship, the Outrider, as a smuggling and courier vessel for Rebel missions.
    The Outrider is and ebony Corellian YT-2400 freighter converted for smuggling duty. The ship features the trademark saucer-shaped hull of the YT series, but it is a more modern YT-2400 (as opposed to the older YT-1300's, such as the Millenium Falcon). This newer ship is like most Corellian designs: fast, though, and endlessly modifiable.
    With thick armor plating and bulky engines, the YT-2400 can easily handle the strain of deep-space combat. The vessel has power to spare and an oversize hull begging for hot-rodded engines and powerful weapons; it's obvious that when the CEC sold this ship as a "stock cargo hauler," it was with a wink and a grin.
    Rendar's YT-2400 features a rounded hull with a pair of starboard bracing arms that connect to the cockpit compartment, which is essentially a long tube. The aft section of the cockpit tube contains the primary escape pod, which seats six. The bracing arm's interior space generally is used for crew quarters and living space.
    The rounded hull area is devoted to cargo holds and ship's systems. In practice, much of the interior hull space is taken up by modified engines, power generators, weapons systems, and all the other illegal "goodies" any self-respecting smuggling ship needs. A second escape pod, as well as the air lock, is located on the far side of the cargo compartment, directly opposite the bracing arms.