Masanya

The Masanya was a CR90 corvette corvette manufactured by the Corellian Engineering Corporation that was used by the Alliance Fleet as a light escort vessel. It fought in the Battle of Endor, a decisive engagement between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire.

Description
The Masanya was a light CR series escort manufactured in the CR90 corvette line by the Corellian Engineering Corporation. Colored white with red markings at the time of the Battle of Endor, it was modified by the Rebel Alliance to be outfitted with advanced scanners designed to continuously disrupt target-acquisition signals, making the ship impossible for missile guidance systems to lock onto. The corvette was valuable as an escort for larger capital ships, as it was equipped with a ship-docking capable hangar for small craft such as starfighters, and turbolasers for defensive cover fire. Its modifications were made at the expense of hull strength, however, making it slightly more vulnerable to damage than other contemporary CR90 corvettes.

History
The Masanya was acquired by the Rebel Alliance early in the Galactic Civil War. It was frequently used to provide escort support for Mon Calamari Star Cruisers and was personally assigned by Rebel Admiral Ackbar to the main Rebel fleet at the Battle of Endor in which it participated.

Behind the scenes
The Masanya first appeared as an unidentified ship during the Battle of Endor scenes in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. A CR90 corvette was then identified by name in Star Wars: X-wing Alliance, a computer game published by LucasArts on February 28, 1999. The following year, in July of 2000, Decipher, Inc. published the Death Star II Limited expansion of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game, which tied the Masanya identified in the computer game to a film image of a red-trimmed CR90 corvette taken out a scene from the Battle of Endor.

On February 16, 2006, LucasArts released Star Wars: Empire at War, in which the Masanya appeared as one of several Corellian corvettes randomly labeled in the game's space battles. In the Star Wars PocketModel TCG, a trading card strategy game published by WizKids Games in 2007, the Masanya is represented by a miniature marked with blue trim instead of the red trim previously associated with the ship.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Empire at War
 * Star Wars: X-wing Alliance
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi