Corona-class armed frigate/Legends

Corona-class armed frigate The Corona-class armed frigate was a saucer-shaped craft manufactured by Haor Chall Engineering before the Clone Wars. It was based on an ancient Surronian cruiser design.

Characteristics
It was produced by Haor Chall Engineering before the Clone Wars. The ship proved to be unfit as a droid ship for the CIS. Haor Chall canceled the production and sold the remaining ships to investors and other people who were interested in buying one. During the Clone Wars they were considered antiquities, and collectors paid many credits for these vessels.

The vessel rotated while in flight, which was its main source of propulsion. They had enough room for 6 Flarestar-class Weequay ships, which could be launched from the center of its ventral superstructure.

The craft was capable of landing on planetary surfaces and had eight landing legs. The eighth doubled as boarding ramps.

History
The pirate band of Hondo Ohnaka used such a ship to carry out their raids. Ohnaka stole the ship from a starship collector on Farana along with several Flarestar-class Weequay ships. They landed on Vanqor during Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker's hunt for Count Dooku, and scavenged the Count's Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop. Ohnaka offered the Count passage to Florrum, a planet six parsecs away. Dooku accepted the offer to travel with them in the ship to their base on Florrum.

Behind the scenes
The ship model is a nod to the flying saucers popular in 1950s sci-fi films. The craft was first named a "Surronian cruiser" by The Clone Wars: Visual Guide Ultimate Battles, but in Galaxy at War it was named a Corona-class armed frigate. The publication Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Incredible Vehicles later separated the Corona-class and the Surronian cruiser as two distinct starship models.