Passenger liner

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Apassenger liner,spaceliner orstarliner was a civilian craft for transporting people betweenplanets—and usually betweenstar systems.

Technically, all passenger liners requiredlife support,escape pods, a qualified crew and a valid license, supported by the appropriate insurance and government dues. In practice, the term denoted any ship that could carry passengers besides its flight crew.

The two main types of passenger liner were thesmall passenger ship (SSP, for "small starship, passenger"), denoting ships under 100 meters long with less than 500 passengers, and theluxury liner, over 100 meters and with more than 250 passengers. Implicitly, ships in the two size brackets with passenger complements outside these ranges probably had different designations, but such ships were probably much less widespread.

Passenger liners were occasionally used in military operations. Most notably, theAlliance to Restore the Republic converted a number of passenger liners into warships, including someMon Calamari Star Cruisers and theSullustan design that became theDauntless-class heavy cruiser. Also,Palpatine's personal luxury liner, theExcalibur, saw battle in a coup attempt byGrand AdmiralDemetrius Zaarin, and the SSP designation extended to manyfreighters andshuttles that were capable of basic combat.

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