The MOD-17 was a container freighter produced by Loronar Corporation. It measured five hundred and fifty meters in length. The MOD-17 freighter was split into four separate modular cargo sections, each of which could be modified to accommodate a wide variety of cargoes—the interior environment could be altered, for example, to become aquatic or gaseous habitats, or simply left as a basic, shielded space. A standard MOD-17 freighter had interior capacity for 200,000 metric tons of cargo, and could transport up to thirty passengers. It required a crew of fifty, and had a built-in hyperdrive generator.