Rendili Home Defense Fleet

The Rendili Home Defense Fleet, sometimes called the 'Rendili Home Fleet, was the space defence force of the shipyard world of Rendili and the Rendili StarDrive corporation.

During the Clone Wars, the Home Defense Fleet consisted of a force of Rendili StarDrive's Dreadnaught Cruisers, with systems linked together by slave circuits. They were commanded by Captain Jace Dallin from the flagship Mersel Kebir. When the pro-Seperatist Independent Provisional Government took power, Lieutenant Mellor Yago staged a coup aboard the flagship, hoping to withdraw the Home Defense Fleet to join the Confederacy's forces - with him in command.

With the help of Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos and Republic Captain Jan Dodona, Captain Dallin recaptured the command ship, and turned the fire of theHome Defense Fleet on the Seperatist ships that had joined the battle, winning a resounding victory for the Republic.

However, the indcident gave Palpatine the pretext for placing the autonomous naval forces of Republic worlds under executive command. The ships of the Rendilli Home Defense Fleet were apparently converted into Dungeon Ships, and shortly after the Declaration of a New Order, Jace Dallin had the dubious distinction of being the first Captain in the Imperial Navy to be summarily executed by Darth Vader.

Appearances

 * The Dreadnaughts of Rendili

Behind the Scenes
It is unclear how many Dreadnaughts formed the Home Defense Fleet, although no scene in the comic series shows more than five or six at once, and a Captain would be unlikely to serve as commander of a fleet of scores of ships. It may be that this single squadron was the entire battle line of the Home Defense Fleet, although Rendili is known to have had the industrial capacity to launch the two hundred dreadnaughts of the Katana Fleet a few years earlier.