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- "She's hurt bad on the left of the tower. Concentrate on that side."
- ―Wedge Antillies on the Pride of Tarlandia during the Battle of Endor
The Pride of Tarlandia was a battlecruiser that served as a communication and coordination unit in Imperial fleet operations.
Characteristics[]
The Pride of Tarlandia was a Battlecruiser-classed[3] Destroyer and communications ship[2] that served in Galactic Empire's Imperial Navy, and was second in line to the command of Death Squadron at the Battle of Endor.[3] It was one of the larger Destroyers present at the battle. The Pride of Tarlandia was equipped with several different sizes of guns, including foreward batteries and lasers. It possessed a tower, long axis, a gunmetal hull, reactors positioned just inside its cargo bay.[2]
History[]
- "Starting attack run on the main power tree."
- ―Lando Calrissian beginning his attack run on the Pride of Tarlandia
Early battle[]
In 4 ABY[2] the Rebel Alliance was lured to the[4] Outer Rim[3] moon of Endor, where Emperor Palpatine had laid a trap for the Alliance in hopes of destroying them.[4] The Pride of Tarlandia was present during the Battle of Endor, in where it was be the main communications ship used by the Imperial fleet.[2]
The Pride of Tarlandia went into a rough battle with a Mon Calamari Star Cruiser and emerged victorious, having destroyed the other ship. It suffered reparable damage during its encounter, and because of the damage it had sustained, Lando Calrissian decided to attempt a fighter run against while it was still vulnerable.[2]
Lando's attack run[]
The Millennium Falcon, Red Leader Wedge Antilles,[2] Blue Leader Merrick Simms,[5] and Green Wing began thier attack run against the battleship. They went in low enough to avoid the Pride of Tarlandia's bigger guns, did a high-speed power-dive perpendicular to the ship's long axis, and raced along the hull while under heavy fire. Green Wing was hit and crashed into the front batteries on the port side of the vessel, allowing the other fighters a chance to hit the power reactors located inside a cargo bay.[2]
Pulling out of the bay after a heavy strike, the surviving Rebel fighters escaped as the ship was destroyed in a series of increasing explosions. One of the explosions managed to kill Simms and destroy a nearby Imperial ship. The Pride of Tarlandia's destruction greatly hampered the operations of the rest of the fleet and caused the scanner jamming of the Rebel fleet to stop, allowing the Rebel fleet to detect the status of the Death Star II's shield generator[2] Because of both its destruction and the Executor's destruction, command then fell to the[1] Imperial II-class Star Destroyer[6] Chimaera, the next communications ship in line.[1]
Crew[]
The Pride of Tarlandia possessed a crew that included reactor personnel. Its reactor personnel where suprised and horrified when Calrissian pulled the Falcon into a sharp bank to destroy the ships reactors.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
In Pride of Tarladia originated in the Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization, which was written by James Kahn and published in 1983. Although it was not identified in the novel,[2] the vessel was identified as the Pride of Tarlandia in the reference book The Essential Guide to Warfare, which was written by Fry and Paul R. Urquhart and published in 2012.[3]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novel (First appearance)
Sources[]
- The Essential Guide to Warfare (First identified as Pride of Tarlandia)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Essential Guide to Warfare
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 The Essential Guide to Warfare
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
- ↑ A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
- ↑ Heir to the Empire Sourcebook
