Suprosa

Suprosa was a heavily modified Imperial Mobquet Medium Transport.

Allegedly hauling fertilizer, it was raided by members of the Rebel Alliance, including Luke Skywalker, Dash Rendar, Ace Azzameen and a group of Bothans piloting Y-wings. They found it to be transporting data on the construction of the second Death Star. Many of the Bothans died in the subsequent effort to return the data to Rebel High Command when Suprosa launched a Diamond Boron Missile into the Y-wing formation, obliterating everything in a 50-meter radius. Luckily, the Rebel forces were able to disable the ship. Strafing the ship with his Y-wing, Azzameen disabled the transport's weapons with his ion cannons before another missile could be fired. Skywalker then disabled the ship's engines with his X-wing fighter. Luke briefly felt the dark side of the Force during his attack run on the freighter's engines in response to half his Bothan squadron being destroyed.



With the vessel disabled, Dash and several Bothans then boarded the ship to secure the information. The Bothan group Deep Ear brought the plans to the planet Gellefon, where they were briefly captured before bringing the information back to Alliance High Command. The intelligence indicating that Suprosa carried valuable information, was leaked deliberately by Imperial Intelligence, as part of Emperor Palpatine's ruse to lure the Alliance to Endor in order to obliterate them.

Behind the scenes

 * The Shadows of the Empire novel identifies Suprosa as being a Corellian freighter.
 * In the book Shadows of the Empire, Luke is credited with disabling the ship by himself, whereas in the video game, Star Wars: X-wing Alliance, Ace is the one that incapacitates the freighter. For this article, both are assumed to be correct, with Ace keeping the ship from firing it's weapons again, and Luke disabling the ship's engines.

Appearances



 * Shadows of the Empire comic / novel/ game
 * Star Wars: X-wing Alliance