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This is a basic transport, built and used by the Traddian Alliance [link] . They are not massive ships, carrying only around 1000 passengers at the top end. They more typically carry fewer passengers and use the remaining space to haul additional cargo and supplies to places such as the Keras colony [link] [link] or for profit at other worlds. This particular transport is 220 furls, or approximately 40 meters in length.Related content
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400 meters long sounds like a pretty big ship to me. I don't think the transports from Star Wars were more than 100 meters. A 100-400 meter long transport like this looks like it could carry 5,000-10,000 passengers, but if you don't want to cram them in like sardines then I suppose 1000 sounds reasonable. What do you think the main imports and exports would be from Keras?
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You're right. I think I might have slipped an extra digit in there. I was using modern seafaring ship as a reference for size capacity; which are around 40 meters and can carry around 2,000 passengers. 400 is quite a bit larger.
As a sparsely populated and mostly undeveloped world, Keras would have very little to export at this time. There are no large scale manufacturing plants. However, as a life supporting planet, there is some agriculture with enough produced to export. There are some raw materials, mostly in mineral form, that have yet to be mined; but as the population grows in the future and is able to tap into this resource, these will add a significant income from export. The imports are mainly those manufactured goods which as yet cannot be produced on the planet. Though not strictly import/export, there is also a small tourism industry.
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