Y-85 Titan dropship/Legends

Y-85 Titan dropship The Y-85 Titan dropship, colliquially known as the walker dropship, was an important dropship used to deploy AT-ATs and AT-STs onto planetary surfaces.

The Y-85 was reluctantly used by Imperial forces because it was manufactured by the Incom Corporation, which also built the Rebel Alliance's X-wing starfighters. It could accommodate four AT-ATs in addition to four AT-STs.



Walkers were held on cranes in battle-ready configuration, and could be quickly deployed via drop-down floor hatches. The Y-85 was armed with two forward twin laser cannons for defense. The walker dropship could also be used to deployed AT-AT swimmers and TIE fighter boats straight into any body of water.

The Y-85 was credited with having delivered walkers to the Hoth surface before the assault on Echo Base.

Because of the Y-85's size, it could only fit inside larger warships, such as Executor-class Star Dreadnoughts. The launch bays of standard Imperial-class Star Destroyers could only hold smaller landers like the Theta-class AT-AT barge, although their main ventral dock could accommodate other transports comparable to the Y-85, such as the Warlord dropship.

Behind the scenes
Early Expanded Universe sources claimed that an Imperial-class Star Destroyer carried 12 "landing barges" of unspecified class. It was stated that these barges were capable of holding 4 AT-ATs or 8 AT-STs, as well as 1,000 troops.

Curtis Saxton found it doubtful that such a large craft could fit inside the hangar of a Star Destroyer. The nonfiction book Star Wars Incredible Cross Sections, by David West Reynolds, portrayed a single-walker barge inside Devastator's hangars.

Saxton later served as a consultant during the writing of the book Inside the Worlds of the Star Wars Trilogy. This book was not only the first official source to fully depict and name the Y-85, but also confirmed that Imperial-class Star Destroyers only have hangars large enough for single-walker landing barges.

External link

 * Curtis Saxton's Star Wars Technical Commentaries on Imperial landing barges