Oran
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The Oran is an extensively modified CR90 Corvette. It currently serves as a fast attack ship in the Alliance Fourth Fleet: part of the Destiny Task Force commanded by Captain Soto Terius.
History
The Oran began life as a CR70 Corvette named Dregan's Pike. It functioned as an interstellar courier for a mid-level Republic diplomat: however, when Corellia invoked Contemplanys Hermi and withdrew from the Republic in protest of the Military Creation Act, the diplomat retired and his ship was consigned to the same fate.
Repurchased by the Corellian Engineering Corporation, for use as a technology test-bed by the same team of engineers that developed the Vanguard c20 retrofit that brought the CR70 up to the same specs as the more heavily-armed CR90 Corvette. Their goal was to explore just how far the basic design could be taken, in the hopes of matching the military performance of designs from rival companies, such as the Marauder Corvette.
In order to equip the Dregan's Pike as an interdictor, the design team installed a tractor beam generator, and swapped the turbolasers on the ventral turret for ion cannons. They also uprated the engines, allowing her to intercept most freighters and transports. Taking inspiration from the Charger c70 upgrade for the old Consular-class cruisers, the engineers installed point defence lasers to protect the ship's engines; they also sacrificed passenger accommodations to install larger generators and, taking advantage of the reduced occupancy, replaced two of the escape pods with quad laser turrets. The hyperdrive systems also received an extensive overhaul, shaving a few points off the FTL speed; and lastly, they installed a starship-grade torpedo launcher on the bow.
While the full upgrade package proved too expensive to be profitable, several of the developments were incorporated into other custom designs, as well as into the Assassin Corvette. The Dregan's Pike herself meanwhile remained with the CEC development team, used as a component in the testing of other upgrades and designs, or as a passenger transport as and when required. It was during one such courier mission that the Dregan's Pike was "ambushed", and allegedly destroyed by pirates.
In reality, the ship's destruction was staged by Soto Terius and members of the Corellian Resistance, in order to deliver the ship into the hands of the Rebel Alliance. The deception was necessary at first to disguise the origins of the ship, and to avoid any repercussions for the families of the defectors: towards that end, the Dregan's Pike was provided with forged transponder codes, and was renamed Oran.
