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Welcome everybody to the first edition of my new series. Don’t worry I will make sure to keep up with my other projects. But here I am with a new one! This time about my favorite aspect of the Star Wars universe: starships!

New to the Series

For anyone new to the series, I talk about starships, navies, and commanders in the Star Wars universe. Here’s the archive for all the other posts in the series.

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“Look how many there are!”

“This my friends, this is our rebellion.”

—Ezra Bridger and Mon Mothma

History

In 4 BBY the Rebel cell known as the Spectres were rescued above Mustafar by Phoenix Cell which used three CR90 Corvettes and several RZ-1 A-wings. Before they escaped, Phoenix Cell was able to take out several TIE/ln Space Superiority Fighters. The Phoenix Cell then stole Imperial power generators from a convoy. Phoenix Cell was later tracked down and nearly destroyed by Darth Vader in a TIE Advanced x1. However, before Imperial reinforcements came in to finish off the fleet they escaped. When he joined the fleet, Grand Army of the Republic hero Captain Rex gave the locations of several old Republic bases to Phoenix Cell to establish a permanent base. After two failed attempts at breaking the blockade over Ibaar, Hera Syndulla acquired the prototype B-wing Starfighter and was promoted to the rank of Phoenix Leader for the feat.

When the Imperials attacked Garel City where the fleet was hiding in 3 BBY they destroyed a corvette before Phoenix Cell escaped. To reinforce the fleet, Bail Organa sent three Sphyrna-class Corvettes commanded by his adopted daughter Leia Organa to Lothal where they were received stolen from the Imperial Depot by the Spectres, Leia, and Ryder Azadi. Later, the Phoenix Cell attempted to gain safe passage through the Concord Dawn system. Instead of the peaceful negotiations they were hoping for the A-wings the fleet sent were attacked by Fenn Rau and his Fang-class Fighters. In response, the Spectres attacked Rau’s camp on the third moon of Concord Dawn where they kidnapped Rau before escaping. His capture gained them leverage in negotiating for safe passage through the system.

The fleet’s loss of fighters caused them to steal an Imperial Quasar Fire-class Cruiser-Carrier above the planet Ryloth with help from the Free Ryloth Movement. This ship became the fleet’s flagship known as Phoenix Nest. The Imperial Navy attempted an ambush above Yost but the Astromech droid C1-10P and the inventory droid AP-5 were able to save Phoenix Cell by giving them the coordinates to the planet Atollon which came to be known as Chopper Base. It wasn’t long in the Rebels’ campaign that Grand Admiral Thrawn himself set his focus on Phoenix Cell. As part of this he dispatched Admiral Kassius Konstantine, Imperial Security Bureau agent Alexsandr Kallus, and Lothal Governor Ahrinda Pryce to stop the Rebels at Yampa where they had stolen five BTL-B Y-wing Fighter-Bombers which were set to be scrapped. However, Thrawn realized this wasn’t the entirety of the fleet and so he let them go. The Rebels then transferred the Y-wings to Jan Dodonna’s Massasi Group.

When Mykapo faced an Imperial subjugation the Spectres helped deliver supplies and evacuate Commander Jun Sato’s nephew Matt Martin along with his Iron Squadron. Again, Thrawn let the Spectres escape hoping to destroy the entire fleet as one. After Konstantine failed to capture the Spectres who were transporting former Senator Mon Mothma, Mothma gave a speech over Dantooine which assembled many ships together over the planet. Those ships came to be the foundation of the official Alliance to Restore the Republic’s Navy. Early on, the top contributors to the growth of the Alliance Fleet were Breda and Bail Organa the Queen and Senator of Alderaan. Many of the ships they and others contributed were up-armed and up-armored civilian ships that were retrofitted at the shipyards of Paucris Major.

To prepare for an attack on the TIE Defender factory on Lothal, Phoenix Cell and Massasoit Group gathered at Atollon. However, Thrawn learned of their location and plans. He ambushed them at Atollon and used two Interdictor-class Star Destroyers to trap the Rebels there. It was a Rebel disaster as numerous capital ships were destroyed from bomber fire. After Commander Jun Sato rammed Phoenix Nest into one of the Interdictors, Ezra Bridger escaped through the gap to Krownest where he enlisted the aid of the Mandalorians of Clan Wren. They then returned to Atollon where they destroyed the second Interdictor allowing the Ghost, two Sphyrnas, a lone CR90, and a handful of Starfighters to escape.

The fleet would rebuild with Mon Calamari Star Cruisers being the centerpiece ships. The first major naval battle that the fleet engaged in was at Scarif where they assisted Rogue One on the surface to steal the Death Star plans. Before the Shield Gate closed, Blue Squadron was sent down to assist the ground team. Red, Gold, and Green Squadrons protected the fleet’s capital ships while also attacking the Shield Gate. Gold Squadron’s Y-wings were able to disable one of the Imperial I-class Star Destroyers present while the ships Heartbound and Deviant kept the other from advancing. Admiral Raddus of the Alliance Fleet had the Sphyrna-class Corvette Lightmaker ram the disabled Star Destroyer into the functioning one which was then rammed into the shield gate. With the Shield Gate’s jamming gone, Rogue One transmitted the Death Star plans to Raddus’s flagship Profundity.

Just then, the Death Star arrived and destroyed the Citadel along with large portions of the planet and Rogue One. The Rebel fleet started retreating into hyperspace with some managing to make the jump before Darth Vader’s Star Destroyer Devastator arrived and destroyed several ships and disabled the Profundity. Before the Profundity was destroyed completely the plans were copied onto a datacard which was then loaded along with several Rebel soldiers on the CR90 Corvette Tantive IV. The Tantive IV had already been damaged before it left the Profundity and jumped to Tatooine so it was easy for the Devastator to follow it’s trail of leaking radiation. The Tantive IV was pulled into the Devastator’s hangar bay where it was then boarded by Darth Vader and an escort of stormtroopers who captured Leia Organa and took her to a prison cell onboard the Death Star.

After she was rescued by Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Luke Skywalker, Leia delivered the plans to the Alliance High Command. The Rebels hastily devised a plan to destroy the Death Star involving a pilot firing a proton torpedo down a small thermal exhaust port leading down to the reactor causing the station to explode. The Death Star began approaching the Rebel’s base on Yavin IV after Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin learned of its location through a tracker placed on the Millennium Falcon. The Rebels dispatched Red, Green, and Gold Squadrons which totaled a force of 30 X-wings and Y-wings. These Starfighters began engaging and destroying the station’s turrets and TIE Fighters.

Gold Squadron was the first to make a run with Gold Leader Jon Vander, Dex Tiree, and Davis’s Krail in their Y-wings. All three were destroyed by Darth Vader and his TIE Fighters before they could make a shot on the exhaust port. Red Squadron was the next to go with Red Leader Garven Dreis, Theron Nett, and Puck Naeco. Theron and Puck were killed before they could fire and Garven was destroyed after his shot missed. The last run was made by Biggs Darklighter, Wedge Antilles, and Luke Skywalker. Biggs was killed and Wedge was forced to pull back after his ship was damaged. However, with the aid of the Force and the Millennium Falcon driving off Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker managed to shoot a proton torpedo down the exhaust port which destroyed the battle station and everyone on it including Tarkin and ISB Colonel Wullf Yularen.

Admiral Gial Ackbar replaced Raddus as the head of the fleet. One of his first actions was to take the fleet to Yavin IV and evacuate all personnel, supplies, and command members they could. The fleet relocated to the moon Orto Plutonia where they orbited around it, occasionally sending troops down to the surface for training exercises. After the mathematician Drusil Bephorin correctly guessed where the fleet was located Luke Skywalker rescued him from an Imperial prison to keep the location a secret. Thousands of starships and dozens of battle groups were deployed in the Mid Rim Offensive when the Rebels tried to ride on their momentum and take the massive Mid Rim region. However, this proved to be unsuccessful and the Rebels soon retreated.

At least five different Starfighter squadrons, including Red Squadron, were stationed at the refueling station around Vrogas Vas. Darth Vader located this base and soon after he arrived he began tearing through Starfighters left and right searching for the pilot who had destroyed the Death Star. Luke Skywalker finally put a stop to his rampage by crashing into Vader and sending them both to the planet below. Gray Squadron was the first to find Vader who started hurling rocks at their Y-wings, managing to destroy a few. The Rebels also sent down ground troops escorted by Cyan Squadron’s T-47 Airspeeders to locate Luke and take out Vader. Several troops were killed and a handful of Airspeeders were damaged when Vader detonated the Rebels’ own grenades. Leia then had Amber Squadron’s Y-wings try bombarding Vader. The Rebels were forced to retreat when more Imperial forces entered the system led by Commander Karbin.

12 Star Cruisers were soon added to the fleet following the death of King Lee-Char and the Mutiny on Mon Cala. These Star Cruisers were then converted into warships using Shu-Torun technology at the Mako-Ta Spacedocks. When the conversions were done Queen Trios of Shu-Torun and other Rebel leaders celebrated with an X-wing light show. The Star Cruisers were just about to be sent off to fight Imperial ships when the Rebels realized that the Hyperdrives weren’t functioning. Just then, Darth Vader’s Death Squadron led by the Executor arrived and destroyed General Vanden Willard’s ship. The Rebels realized that the hangar doors could be opened if a ship flew close enough to trigger the sensors; General Bandwin Cor attempted to do this with his shuttle but he was destroyed.

Han Solo attempted to do this after he arrived and was briefed on the situation but he was chased off by Vader. Luke opened the doors after being informed of the predicament by C-3PO and he, along with other pilots including Wedge Antilles, flew out to engage the Imperials under the name Rogue Squadron in honor of Jyn Erso and Rogue One. The Rebels eventually managed to launch other frightens but the Star Cruisers’ Hyperdrives and weapons were still offline. Leia and Davits Draven boarded the Executor to steal the override codes to the Star Cruisers. Davits was killed while stalling Vader but Leia did manage to steal the codes and escape to General Dodonna’s ship Republic which managed to escape. Leia and Luke urged Dodonna to return which they did and they began transmitting the codes to the rest of the fleet. General Hera Syndulla’s ship Geist along with Republic held off the Imperial ships as the codes were distributed to the other ships. Geist was able to escape along with a few other cruisers but several cruisers and 90% of Starfighters were destroyed.

After the battle at the Mako-Ta Spacedocks, Luke, Han, and Leia got separated from the fleet and hired Sana Starros to find the fleet and bring them back to it. On the way to meet a contact on Brentaal IV the team encountered a Star Destroyer which forced them to land on the isolationist Hubin. The team met up with a local clan called Clan Markao and the two groups were attacked by SCAR Squadron resulting in Clan Markao joining the Rebels. After Clan Markao joined the Rebels on the Geist, the team met with Ackbar in the Kaliida Nebula who informed them of the fleet’s losses since Mako-Ta.

In 3 ABY the Rebels established a new command base on the planet Hoth. However, Vader eventually found the location of the base and brought Death Squadron to blockade the planet. A few dozen GR-75 Medium Transports, carrying supplies and personnel, covered by X-wings and the Rebels’ V-150 Planet Defender, tried to bypass the blockade but many were destroyed. To try and stall for time Cyan Squadron and several T-47 Airspeeders engaged the Imperial All Terrain Armored Transports on the surface. Afterwards, the fleet split up in order to stretch the Imperial Navy and deny the Empire a propaganda-usable victory. Several of the fleet’s ships hid on the remote planet of 5251977 Well that’s a fun Easter egg. The fleet would go on to fight a war of survival rather than make bold strikes against the Empire.

The CR90 Thunderstrike and Braha’tok-class Gunship Apailana’s Promise, which carried the 61st Mobile Infantry, attacked several Imperial supply bases in the Mid Rim to draw out Imperial forces in preparation for a strike against the shipyards of Kuat. However, they’re offensive was halted after both ships’ destruction during the Siege of Inyusu Tor. A meeting on Zastiga among the Rebel leaders had them informed of the location of the Death Star 2. Knowing that the battle station’s completion would mean the end for the Rebellion, the fleet gathered over the newly liberated Sullust. Soon after they rescued Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine, Leia, R2-D2, Lando Calrissian, and C-3PO rendezvoused with the fleet and Luke joined them too after he made a stop on Dagobah to finish his training as a Jedi.

First, Rebel Commandos had to destroy the shield generator protecting the station before the fleet could jump in and destroy it but they were stopped by an Imperial ambush. After the fleet used the Sanctuary Pipeline to jump to Endor, Lando Calrissian onboard the Millennium Falcon led several squadrons of X-, Y, B-, and A-wings to attack the Death Star 2. The fleet was about to turn and move out of the way from colliding with the battle station but Death Squadron came out of hiding to ambush them. The Executor and the Star Destroyers were ordered to not attack so the Death Star could fire its superlaser on the Rebel ships. Of the ships fired upon were two MC80 Liberty Type Heavy Star Cruisers Liberty and Nautilian. Ackbar ordered the fleet to move closer to Death Squadron so as to avoid the Death Star’s superlaser from firing on the fleet again.

After the team on the surface brought down the shield generator Lando Calrissian led Red and Gold Squadrons into the Death Star where they engaged multiple TIE Fighters on their way to the core. These TIEs drove away several fighters, including Norra Wexley in her Y-wing, and destroyed others, like Keir Santage in his X-wing. The Rebels managed to heavily damage the Executor bringing down its shield before Arvel Crynd in his A-wing crashed into the bridge bringing down the ship into the Death Star. Wedge and Lando arrived at the reactor and destroyed it killing Palpatine and making the battle a resounding Rebel victory despite heavy casualties.

Organization

Alliance High Command was responsible for all logistical and strategic operations. Otherwise, Raddus - and later Ackbar - was the sole head of the Rebel’s ragtag navy. After the Battle of Endor, Ackbar took the position of Supreme Commander of the Alliance Fleet. Despite it being heavily frowned upon, due to it being a volunteer military pilots and staff could leave as they pleased. However, many stayed out of camaraderie and the impracticality of returning to their home systems with Imperial forces waiting there. Though when they did this or when the fleet split up, as they often did, their scatter protocol, which included using random hyperspace routes, resulted in pilots taking weeks to rejoin their squadron.

Thanks for reading! And thank you to the editors who made this post possible! Without them I wouldn’t have known as much about this. Until next time, may the Force be with you.

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