A shuttle ferry was a red-and-yellow two-engine, single pilot repulsorcraft shuttle model that operated on the planet Ferrix by 5 BBY. The Ferrix Entry Ferry Service used shuttle ferries for transporting passengers to and from the town center. Rebel network coordinator Luthen Rael used a shuttle ferry in 5 BBY, as did one of his network's spies Vel Sartha and ex-Pre-Mor Enforcement officers Syril Karn and Linus Mosk several weeks later.
The shuttle ferry was a type of two-engine repulsorcraft shuttle. The exterior of the starship was painted in red and bright yellow, with the text "FERRIX ENTRY FERRY SERVICE" written on its side in Bazeese script; individual ferries also had their engine number written next to the company name with capital letters. The ferries' two engine units were located in the rear.
The pilot of a shuttle ferry was seated in an elevated cockpit.
A shuttle ferry had a spacious interior including standing space and seating for at least thirty-one passengers arranged in sets of four along with a rear gallery. It also included overhead space for their luggage. It was driven by a single pilot who was seated in an elevated glass cockpit in the front of the ship. Entry and exit from the vehicle was facilitated by use of a staircase droid, which was deployed in ferry stations, and a mirror opposite to the door. A screen above the door displayed information about the ship's destination, and overhead lights as well as wide windows offered a clear view of the surrounding locales.
Shuttle ferries were used as civilian intercity passenger transports.
Luthen Rael (left) rides in the passenger section of a shuttle ferry.
By 5 BBY, Ferrix Entry Ferry Service operated at least three different shuttle ferries, including Engine 22, to ferry passengers from shuttle stations scattered around the planet Ferrix to the main settlement's terminal as well as to the planet's spaceport. Upon landing on Ferrix to meet with his local contact's seller, Cassian Andor, in 5 BBY, Luthen Rael, the coordinator of a rebel network, used Engine 22 to carry him from a ferry station close to the remote valley where he had landed his Fondor Haulcraft, to the Ferrixian town.
During transit, he struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger, Willi, who complained about shuttle ferry rates and warned him about pickpockets. One month later, while departing for the Core Worlds planet Coruscant to meet with her cousin Mon Mothma, Rael's network's spy Vel Sartha used a shuttle ferry to leave the town. Several days later, ex–Pre-Mor Enforcement officers Linus Mosk and Syril Karn, posing as locals, took a ferry to the Ferrixian town to investigate Andor's possible presence at his mother's upcoming funeral.
The shuttle ferry first appeared in "That Would Be Me," the second episode of the first season of the Disney+ live-action television series Andor, released on September 21, 2022. It was identified as a "shuttle ferry" in the audio description of the next episode, "Reckoning," released the same day.
- Andor: The Complete First Season — Featurette: "Ferrix Part 1: Imperial Occupation"