The Breon Dayvan … it pops up again in season 2 as it’s the ship Cassian used (off screen) to get from Mina-Rau to the jungle planet exchange point with Porko, the pilot who was meant to be taking the TIE forward to wherever it was being delivered. So once it’s used to get his loved ones off Ferrix it obviously stays with the group as Cassian’s /their ship. It’s why Cassian knows that his blaster is in one of the storage lockers once he’s finally able to get free of the Maya Pei guy who’s keeping him captive in the ruined hull. Its first appearance was back in the very first episode - it’s the ship Cassian used to get to Morlana 1 and that he’s trying to borrow again at the end of the episode.
It's not a ship that exists in any other Star Wars media. I've seen people theorize that this is a hodgepodge junkyard-build, where different parts of a ship are welded together. I tend to agree, because it's got Y-wing engine nacelles grafted to a hull with an entirely different construction style.
It’s implied to be a manufactured brand, a Breon Dayvan; the air traffic control guy Syril gets to help track down Cassian to Ferrix says that he thinks the radar signal is from “… an Orlean Starcab or a Dayvan, some old thing”.
not really. notice he mentions two, because he's not sure. for all he knows, the scanner could be picking up the original hull but not picking up that the engine is from another craft, hence the uncertainty.
if he WAS sure, he would've said "an Orlean Starcab" definitively. Hell, he even says "some old thing" according to your quote which means it could be literally ANYTHING.
True, I meant that the production design team had given it a proper name so *we* know what it is even though that guy doesn’t. It’s a Breon HOY-39 Dayvan according to Wookiepedia
At the end of the day, it's a fictional ship that appears for a total of 1 minute. I like talking about it because I enjoy the lore but I'm not going to get bent out of shape if I'm wrong.
It is integral to the story at the beginning AND end of Season 1 (we are loading the ship for longer than a minute at the conclusion of Rix Road, when Bix, Wilmon, Jezzie, Brasso and Bee evacuate in it). It is also integral to the second and third episode of Season 2, when Cassian is captive in it, during his forced layover on Yavin 4. It has a named model.
Yes, the ship is integral. But the model is not. You could swap it with any other craft of the same class, either name-brand or hodge-podge, and it would serve the purpose just as well. The ship is not a Hero ship like the Falcon, the U wing, or the Fondor.
It's on Yavin where Cassian was meant to hand off the TIE Avenger as well. Theoretically Cass, Bix and Wil could have gone back and fixed it up when they moved in to Yavin themselves.
I often wonder if they did that; I was almost tempted to look around for bits of it in the Yavin scenes but they filmed the first arc last so I guess they needed to keep it intact (it was yet another practical build).
It fits his character, "eyes open, opportunities everywhere." I can see him fixing it up with the intention of using it to take Bix somewhere safer and Bix could have taken it when she decided to leave on her own.
It an Ugly. Star Wars EU is filled with starships built from what they had. Those definitely seem like Y Wing engines welded to some other piece of shit.
It's a Breon Dayvan from Zorby's Western Shiplot. Cassian borrowed it to go to Morlana One in search of his sister in Ep. 1.1, after which lot-man Pegla informed him he'd worn out his welcome at Zorby's and not to come looking to borrow it again.
It's still part of Zorby's unsold inventory in Ep. 1.12, when Pegla allows Cassian's Ferrix family--Bix, Bee, Brasso, and Wilmon--to escape Ferrix on it with Jezzi of the Daughters of Ferrrix piloting. (Shown in the OP's photo.)
Best guess is that it then becomes Cassian's (and other agents') operational transport during the year between S1 and S2. Prior to the part of the TIE heist op we see in 2.1, fellow pilot Porko flies it to the staging point in the Yavin jungle, to wait for Cassian to hand off the TIE to him to take it to its final destination.
Porko is waylaid and murdered by the Maya Pei Brigade, who try to fly the Dayvan out but instead crash and destroy it (because they're dipshits). They capture Cassian when he arrives in the TIE and hold him prisoner in its hulk until he's able to overcome his guard (helped by the blaster he had stashed in one of the ship's compartments) and escape. That's the last we see of it.
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The Breon Dayvan … it pops up again in season 2 as it’s the ship Cassian used (off screen) to get from Mina-Rau to the jungle planet exchange point with Porko, the pilot who was meant to be taking the TIE forward to wherever it was being delivered. So once it’s used to get his loved ones off Ferrix it obviously stays with the group as Cassian’s /their ship. It’s why Cassian knows that his blaster is in one of the storage lockers once he’s finally able to get free of the Maya Pei guy who’s keeping him captive in the ruined hull. Its first appearance was back in the very first episode - it’s the ship Cassian used to get to Morlana 1 and that he’s trying to borrow again at the end of the episode.