Asura said
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/YV-929_armed_freighterCause, you know, pirate invested galaxy.Also, has the exchange rate of credits changed that much? Cause everybody in this RP is really dirt poor. :p
A young slave would never be able to afford this. It is too well armed and the extensive cargo space make it rarely ever affordable. When you were adopted it was the only time you were able to actually gain credits. And as a youngling with guardians you had no reason to need credits, therefore your largest sum of credits saved was not that large. Which is why which ever freighter you're getting it will have old and rusted systems and the hyperdrive will always act up. Because of these issues, you could afford it. Not saying they are permanent. After the timeskip, you can have them all fixed. But it'd be really funny if after that the hyperdrive would sometimes, in the worst moments, act up and require a quick recharging xD
Everyone is poor because all the banks have been destroyed, leaving people with only the credits in their pockets. While some flourished because they had trillions in their pockets, some did not. Which is why there are smaller organizations rising up. I don't think we need inflation, either. But what this also means is that everything is extremely cheaper than what it was before. A couple hundred credits could probably buy you a little land and a house now, depending on the area. And an example of back on Taris in KotOR, Davik was one of the richest fuckers on the planet as a solo man with his Exchange, but he himself still could not afford a ship of his own, and even when he did, it still wasn't bigger than 3-4 TIE fighters. And he was rich, so, yeah.