Kamikaze/Legends



Kamikaze was a tactic in which one starfighter, capital ship, or other vehicle, often loaded with explosives, would deliberately ram a target, often causing massive damage. Craft outfitted for kamikaze attacks were often, but not always, unmanned or run by a droid crew.

The Airam were known to occasionally carry out kamikaze attacks, as at the Battle of Nocto. During the Galactic Civil War, Imperial commandos attempted to sabotage the Rebel starfighter factory Koensayr 42 to program the BTL-A4 Y-wing starfighters it manufactured to crash into the escort carrier Eleusis. An unmanned GR-75 medium transport rammed a shield generator during the Fondor shipyard assault to allow Rogue Squadron to destroy an unfinished Executor-class Star Dreadnought.

Perhaps the most notable example of this tactic being used was at the Second Battle of Borleias, when New Republic forces modified the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Lusankya to ram and destroy the Domain Hul worldship from which the Yuuzhan Vong were coordinating their attack.

Behind the scenes
Manned kamikaze attacks have been extremely controversial in the real world, and suicide seems to carry the same social taboos in most Star Wars cultures as it does in most Earth cultures. It is likely that kamikaze has been seen so sparingly as a tactic in the Star Wars universe for the same reasons.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: X-wing vs. TIE Fighter
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand