And all I can think of is...
The sizes of mid size ships in Star Wars are pretty useless.
Ok, Tie Fighters and X-Wing types are fine. Perfect size for a what they are. Hell, X-Wings have interstellar capability. Awesome.
But the ship in the Mandolorian, and Boba Fett's before that, and the Millenium Falcon? What is the point? Cargo is limited to the equivalent of a few steamer trunks and a half dozen extra passenger, at most.
Light patrol and attack craft? Nothing the light fighters like the X-Wing can't do more efficiently. They call the Falcon a light freighter. It can barely haul a load of good from a typical Costco trip here on Earth. Just not a good use of resources considering how expensive these things must be. If you are going to slap a hyperspace drive on something that little make it like a bus or a 737 for people moving with a crew of 2. Or a tractor trailer or C-130 for goods. But you'd do better with volumes like a 20th Century container ship.
I can't hand-wave the stuff away like I did when I was 8.
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Cargo capacity of the YT-1300p Corellian Light Freighter is 25 metric tons. Reconfigured for cargo (1300f) allowed up to 100 metric tons.
Han smuggled more people, and stuck to high-value cargo like spice.*
*Yes, I am a huge geek.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/YT-1300_light_freighter
I dimly recall spending a couple of minutes in the left seat of a C-47 on the ground. It had less room than a VW Beetle. Each windshield pane seemed the size of a large file card, and about 7 inches from my face. I've long thought that "spaceships" and "starships" should look more like a diesel electric submarine inside. Except for the ones that run on peculiar *redacted* modulations of RF energy, and work better the bigger they are. If you've ever done a walk through in a B-17 or similar, it may occur to you that most movies are filmed in studio half shells. Let's face it, the inside of bombers are small and dark. Later B-17s had the waist gun positions offset front/back so the gunners didn't keep bumping into each other.
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