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The '''''Strike''-class Medium Cruiser''' was a medium [[cruiser/Legends|star cruiser]] designed by the [[Loronar Corporation]] during the [[Galactic Civil War/Legends|Galactic Civil War]] for the [[Imperial Navy/Legends|Imperial Navy]] as a general-purpose vessel capable of modular modifications to allow it to fit many mission profiles, yet cheap enough to be produced in large quantities.
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The '''''Strike''-class medium cruiser''' was a medium [[Cruiser/Legends|star cruiser]] designed by the [[Loronar Corporation]] during the [[Galactic Civil War/Legends|Galactic Civil War]] for the [[Imperial Navy/Legends|Imperial Navy]] as a general-purpose vessel capable of modular modifications to allow it to fit many mission profiles, yet cheap enough to be produced in large quantities.
   
 
==Description==
  
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The 450-meter-long ''Strike''-class was capable of challenging larger [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Alliance]] cruisers with its surprisingly heavy load of firepower, strong [[Deflector shield/Legends|shields]], and high sublight speed. Armaments included 20 turbolaser cannons, ten turbolaser batteries, ten ion cannons, and some point-defense weapons. However, the storage spaces and skeletal structure proved weak against enemy fire once the shields were down.
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The 450-meter-long ''Strike''-class was capable of challenging larger [[Alliance to Restore the Republic/Legends|Alliance]] cruisers with its surprisingly heavy load of firepower, strong [[Deflector shield/Legends|shields]], and high sublight speed. Armaments included 20 light [[Turbolaser/Legends|turbolasers]], ten turbolaser batteries, ten [[Ion cannon/Legends|ion cannons]], and ten [[Tractor beam projector/Legends|tractor beam projectors]]. However, the storage spaces and skeletal structure proved weak against enemy fire once the shields were down.
   
 
The [[Order of Battle]] considered two ''Strike''-class cruisers the equivalent of one [[Victory I-class Star Destroyer|''Victory''-class Star Destroyer]].
  
The [[Order of Battle]] considered two ''Strike''-class cruisers the equivalent of one [[Victory I-class Star Destroyer|''Victory''-class Star Destroyer]].
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While [[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker]] was recovering from his injuries from [[Cloud City/Legends|Cloud City]], the [[Alliance Fleet/Legends|Rebel Fleet]] was traveling to its rendezvous point when an Imperial ''Strike''-class cruiser located them and attempted to transmit to Vader the coordinates of the Rebels. However, the Rebels reacted by jamming Imperial communications and dispatching [[Rogue Squadron/Legends|Rogue Squadron's]] [[X-wing starfighter/Legends|X-wings]] under the command of [[Wedge Antilles/Legends|Wedge Antilles]]. The Strike Cruiser's TIE Fighter squadron was quickly overwhelmed, so her commanding officer set a course to escape. The Imperials safeguarded the rear of their Strike Cruiser by concentrating its shields towards the stern of the ship, which successfully deflected the first barrage from one of the X-wings. Rogue Five then exploited the relatively low shielding of the bow of the ship and fired a pair of proton torpedoes that blew the Strike Cruiser apart. Rogue Three's X-wing engine was damaged in the process, and the Rebel Fleet was forced to change course as a precaution to avoid discovery.
  
While [[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker]] was recovering from his injuries from [[Cloud City/Legends|Cloud City]], the [[Alliance Fleet/Legends|Rebel Fleet]] was traveling to its rendezvous point when an Imperial ''Strike''-class cruiser located them and attempted to transmit to Vader the coordinates of the Rebels. However, the Rebels reacted by jamming Imperial communications and dispatching [[Rogue Squadron/Legends|Rogue Squadron's]] [[X-wing starfighter/Legends|X-wings]] under the command of [[Wedge Antilles/Legends|Wedge Antilles]]. The Strike Cruiser's TIE Fighter squadron was quickly overwhelmed, so her commanding officer set a course to escape. The Imperials safeguarded the rear of their Strike Cruiser by concentrating its shields towards the stern of the ship, which successfully deflected the first barrage from one of the X-wings. Rogue Five then exploited the relatively low shielding of the bow of the ship and fired a pair of proton torpedoes that blew the Strike Cruiser apart. Rogue Three's X-wing engine was damaged in the process, and the Rebel Fleet was forced to change course as a precaution to avoid discovery.
   
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During [[Zaarin splinter government|rogue Admiral Zaarin's]] campaign in the Omar system, he successfully [[Destruction of the Grappler|trapped Admiral Thrawn's]] flagship ''[[Sceltor]]'' and sent the Strike Cruiser ''[[Serpent (Strike-class)|Serpent]]'' to destroy his nemesis. While Thrawn's [[Victory I-class Star Destroyer]] was nominally the more powerful vessel, Zaarin's cruiser had the advantage since it approached from the rear, where most of the Star Destroyer's turbolasers had a poor firing arc. However, this move backfired when [[Maarek Stele]] used a [[Magnetic pulse|Mag Pulse torpedo]] to disable the ''Serpent'' just as it moved into firing range of the ''Sceltor''. Zaarin's Strike Cruiser instead found itself temporarily incapacitated and its shields gradually drained by the hammering of Thrawn's flagship. By the time the Mag Pulse effects had worn off, Stele eliminated the remainder of the ''Serpent''{{'s}} shield and disabled it with his TIE Defender's ion cannons.
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During [[Zaarin splinter government|rogue Admiral Zaarin's]] campaign in the Omar system, he successfully [[Destruction of the Grappler|trapped Admiral Thrawn's]] flagship ''[[Sceltor]]'' and sent the Strike Cruiser [[Serpent (Strike-class)|''Serpent'']] to destroy his nemesis. While Thrawn's [[Victory I-class Star Destroyer]] was nominally the more powerful vessel, Zaarin's cruiser had the advantage since it approached from the rear, where most of the Star Destroyer's turbolasers had a poor firing arc. However, this move backfired when [[Maarek Stele]] used a [[Magnetic pulse|Mag Pulse torpedo]] to disable the ''Serpent'' just as it moved into firing range of the ''Sceltor''. Zaarin's Strike Cruiser instead found itself temporarily incapacitated and its shields gradually drained by the hammering of Thrawn's flagship. By the time the Mag Pulse effects had worn off, Stele eliminated the remainder of the ''Serpent''{{'s}} shield and disabled it with his TIE Defender's ion cannons.
   
 
During the Imperial campaign against the proliferation of TIE Defender technology in the [[Eva-T system]], the Strike Cruiser was used by five factions: loyalist Imperials commanded by [[Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Legends|Thrawn]], the traitor [[Demetrius Zaarin|Zaarin]], the [[Rneekii]], the [[Nami]], and the Rebel Alliance. Zaarin cooperated with the Nami for some time, and the Nami later tried to sell the TIE Defenders to the Rebels, which could explain how the Strike Cruiser, with its Imperial origins, became so widespread.
  
During the Imperial campaign against the proliferation of TIE Defender technology in the [[Eva-T system]], the Strike Cruiser was used by five factions: loyalist Imperials commanded by [[Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Legends|Thrawn]], the traitor [[Demetrius Zaarin|Zaarin]], the [[Rneekii]], the [[Nami]], and the Rebel Alliance. Zaarin cooperated with the Nami for some time, and the Nami later tried to sell the TIE Defenders to the Rebels, which could explain how the Strike Cruiser, with its Imperial origins, became so widespread.
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However, as the war raged on and large starships started to become rare, the [[Imperial Remnant]] felt the need to make this otherwise reliable, versatile, and thus tactically important class of cruisers more durable, which resulted in reinforcing the connections between the cruiser's basic integral structure and the attached modules in order to prevent easy decoupling. Nevertheless, these spots remained the most vulnerable parts of the ''Strike''-class, and pilots and commanders on both sides of the Galactic Civil War adapted their tactics to deal with this knowledge.
  
However, as the war raged on and large starships started to become rare, the [[Imperial Remnant]] felt the need to make this otherwise reliable, versatile, and thus tactically important class of cruisers more durable, which resulted in reinforcing the connections between the cruiser's basic integral structure and the attached modules in order to prevent easy decoupling. Nevertheless, these spots remained the most vulnerable parts of the ''Strike''-class, and pilots and commanders on both sides of the Galactic Civil War adapted their tactics to deal with this knowledge.
   
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At least one ''Strike''-class cruiser, ''[[Peregrine (Strike-class)|Peregrine]]'', was modified by the Rebel Alliance with two large, bulbous housings for [[Gravity well projector/Legends|gravity well projectors]], which were removed from a captured Imperial [[Immobilizer 418 cruiser/Legends|Interdictor cruiser]]. This ship was designated by the Rebels as a [[Modified Strike Cruiser|modified strike cruiser]].
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At least one ''Strike''-class cruiser, [[Peregrine (Strike-class)|''Peregrine'']], was modified by the Rebel Alliance with two large, bulbous housings for [[Gravity well projector/Legends|gravity well projectors]], which were removed from a captured Imperial [[Immobilizer 418 cruiser/Legends|Interdictor cruiser]]. This ship was designated by the Rebels as a [[Modified Strike Cruiser|modified strike cruiser]].
   
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The ''Strike''-class cruiser was also redesigned to produce the ''[[Eidolon (Strike-class)|Eidolon]]'' for [[Sate Pestage/Legends|Sate Pestage]], but this prototype never went into full production.
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The ''Strike''-class cruiser was also redesigned to produce the [[Eidolon (Strike-class)|''Eidolon'']] for [[Sate Pestage/Legends|Sate Pestage]], but this prototype never went into full production.
   
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One ''Strike''-class cruiser, the ''[[Termagant]]'', was used by [[Zsinj|Warlord Zsinj]] alongside his [[Executor-class Star Dreadnought/Legends|Super Star Destroyer]] ''[[Iron Fist (Executor-class)|Iron Fist]]'' to [[Ambush at Alderaan|intercept and destroy]] a New Republic [[Bacta/Legends|bacta]] convoy.
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One ''Strike''-class cruiser, the ''[[Termagant]]'', was used by [[Zsinj|Warlord Zsinj]] alongside his [[Executor-class Star Dreadnought/Legends|Super Star Destroyer]] [[Iron Fist (Executor-class)|''Iron Fist'']] to [[Ambush at Alderaan|intercept and destroy]] a New Republic [[Bacta/Legends|bacta]] convoy.
   
 
==Behind the scenes==
  
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In Polish translations of various ''Star Wars'' novels, the Loronar ''Strike''-class cruiser is consistently called ''krążownik uderzeniowy'' (''uderzeniowy'' is the adjective form of ''uderzenie'', "strike"), which refers to the ship's role, not its design. This translation may have been chosen over ''Krążownik Klasy Uderzenie'' (the literal translation of "''Strike''-class cruiser") because ''Uderzenie'' is both phonetically and semantically unsuitable for naming the ship's class, while the adjective form is acceptable. It could also be a translator error (not paying attention to the capital letters).
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In Polish translations of various ''Star Wars'' novels, the Loronar ''Strike''-class cruiser is consistently called ''krążownik uderzeniowy'' (''uderzeniowy'' is the adjective form of ''uderzenie'', "strike"), which refers to the ship's role, not its design. This translation may have been chosen over ''Krążownik klasy Uderzenie'' (the literal translation of "''Strike''-class cruiser") because ''Uderzenie'' is both phonetically and semantically unsuitable for naming the ship's class, while the adjective form is acceptable. It could also be a translator error (not paying attention to the capital letters).
   
 
==Appearances==
  
==Appearances==
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*''[[Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters"]]''
  
*''[[Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters"]]''
 
*''[[Choices of One]]''
  
*''[[Choices of One]]''
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*''[[Star Wars: Rebellion (video game)|Star Wars: Rebellion]]''
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*[[Star Wars: Rebellion (video game)|''Star Wars: Rebellion'']]
 
*[[Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire audio drama|''Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire'' audio drama]] {{Mo}}
  
*[[Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire audio drama|''Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire'' audio drama]] {{Mo}}
 
*''[[Star Wars: TIE Fighter]]'' {{1st}}
  
*''[[Star Wars: TIE Fighter]]'' {{1st}}
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*''[[X-Wing: The Krytos Trap]]''
  
*''[[X-Wing: The Krytos Trap]]''
 
*{{DarkStryder|Traitor in our Midst|The DarkStryder Campaign}}
  
*{{DarkStryder|Traitor in our Midst|The DarkStryder Campaign}}
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*{{DarkStryder|Home (RPG adventure)|The Kathol Rift}} {{Mo}}
 
*''[[Heir to the Empire]]''
  
*''[[Heir to the Empire]]''
 
*{{Journal|6|Rendezvous with Destiny}}
  
*{{Journal|6|Rendezvous with Destiny}}
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*{{Journal|8|Counterstrike (Adventure Journal)|Counterstrike}}
 
*''[[Jedi Search]]''
  
*''[[Jedi Search]]''
 
*''[[Champions of the Force]]''
  
*''[[Champions of the Force]]''
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*''[[Darksaber (novel)|Darksaber]]''
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*[[Darksaber (novel)|''Darksaber'']]
 
*''[[Before the Storm]]''
  
*''[[Before the Storm]]''
 
*''[[Shield of Lies]]''
  
*''[[Shield of Lies]]''
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*''[[Imperial Sourcebook]]''
  
*''[[Imperial Sourcebook]]''
 
*''[[Death Star Technical Companion]]''
  
*''[[Death Star Technical Companion]]''
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*''[[Cracken's Rebel Field Guide (sourcebook)|Cracken's Rebel Field Guide]]'' {{C|As "Strike-Class Medium Cruiser"}}
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*[[Cracken's Rebel Field Guide (sourcebook)|''Cracken's Rebel Field Guide'']]
 
*''[[Heir to the Empire Sourcebook]]''
  
*''[[Heir to the Empire Sourcebook]]''
 
*[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition|''Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game'', Second Edition]]
  
*[[Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition|''Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game'', Second Edition]]
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*''[[Wanted by Cracken]]'' {{C|As "Strike Cruiser"}}
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*''[[Wanted by Cracken]]''
 
*[[Death Star Technical Companion (Second Edition)|''Death Star Technical Companion'', Second Edition]]
  
*[[Death Star Technical Companion (Second Edition)|''Death Star Technical Companion'', Second Edition]]
 
*{{Journal|2|Recon & Report: The Journey to Coruscant}}
  
*{{Journal|2|Recon & Report: The Journey to Coruscant}}
 
*[[Imperial Sourcebook (Second Edition)|''Imperial Sourcebook'', Second Edition]]
  
*[[Imperial Sourcebook (Second Edition)|''Imperial Sourcebook'', Second Edition]]
 
*{{Journal|6|The Cure}}
  
*{{Journal|6|The Cure}}
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*''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]''
 
*''[[The Essential Guide to Characters]]''
  
*''[[The Essential Guide to Characters]]''
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*''[[The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook]]''
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*''[[The Jedi Academy Sourcebook]]''
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*{{WEGCite|book=The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues 1-4|text=''The Best of the Star Wars Adventure Journal, Issues 1-4''|story=Recon & Report: The Journey to Coruscant}} {{C|Reprint}}
 
*''[[The Secrets of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire]]''
  
*''[[The Secrets of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire]]''
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*''[[The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook]]''
 
*''[[Star Wars: Rebellion: Prima's Official Strategy Guide]]''
  
*''[[Star Wars: Rebellion: Prima's Official Strategy Guide]]''
 
*''[[The Essential Guide to Droids]]''
  
*''[[The Essential Guide to Droids]]''
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The Strike-class medium cruiser was a medium star cruiser designed by the Loronar Corporation during the Galactic Civil War for the Imperial Navy as a general-purpose vessel capable of modular modifications to allow it to fit many mission profiles, yet cheap enough to be produced in large quantities.

Description

The 450-meter-long Strike-class was capable of challenging larger Alliance cruisers with its surprisingly heavy load of firepower, strong shields, and high sublight speed. Armaments included 20 light turbolasers, ten turbolaser batteries, ten ion cannons, and ten tractor beam projectors. However, the storage spaces and skeletal structure proved weak against enemy fire once the shields were down.

The Order of Battle considered two Strike-class cruisers the equivalent of one Victory-class Star Destroyer.

The interior storage space of the Strike-class could be modified for different missions. The most common sets were designed for planetary garrison, space superiority, and planetary assault. Planetary garrison loadouts included an assault company, two AT-STs, one AT-AT, and several support speeders; space superiority included up to three squadrons of TIEs; the planetary assault loadout included five AT-ATs.

History

StrikeCruiser1

Profile of a Strike-class medium cruiser

A departure from the Navy's trend towards increasingly large warships, the Strike-class cruiser was an admission to diminished ability to defend space superiority against the Rebel Alliance and other forces as the conflict wore on.

While Luke Skywalker was recovering from his injuries from Cloud City, the Rebel Fleet was traveling to its rendezvous point when an Imperial Strike-class cruiser located them and attempted to transmit to Vader the coordinates of the Rebels. However, the Rebels reacted by jamming Imperial communications and dispatching Rogue Squadron's X-wings under the command of Wedge Antilles. The Strike Cruiser's TIE Fighter squadron was quickly overwhelmed, so her commanding officer set a course to escape. The Imperials safeguarded the rear of their Strike Cruiser by concentrating its shields towards the stern of the ship, which successfully deflected the first barrage from one of the X-wings. Rogue Five then exploited the relatively low shielding of the bow of the ship and fired a pair of proton torpedoes that blew the Strike Cruiser apart. Rogue Three's X-wing engine was damaged in the process, and the Rebel Fleet was forced to change course as a precaution to avoid discovery.

During rogue Admiral Zaarin's campaign in the Omar system, he successfully trapped Admiral Thrawn's flagship Sceltor and sent the Strike Cruiser Serpent to destroy his nemesis. While Thrawn's Victory I-class Star Destroyer was nominally the more powerful vessel, Zaarin's cruiser had the advantage since it approached from the rear, where most of the Star Destroyer's turbolasers had a poor firing arc. However, this move backfired when Maarek Stele used a Mag Pulse torpedo to disable the Serpent just as it moved into firing range of the Sceltor. Zaarin's Strike Cruiser instead found itself temporarily incapacitated and its shields gradually drained by the hammering of Thrawn's flagship. By the time the Mag Pulse effects had worn off, Stele eliminated the remainder of the Serpent's shield and disabled it with his TIE Defender's ion cannons.

During the Imperial campaign against the proliferation of TIE Defender technology in the Eva-T system, the Strike Cruiser was used by five factions: loyalist Imperials commanded by Thrawn, the traitor Zaarin, the Rneekii, the Nami, and the Rebel Alliance. Zaarin cooperated with the Nami for some time, and the Nami later tried to sell the TIE Defenders to the Rebels, which could explain how the Strike Cruiser, with its Imperial origins, became so widespread.

Ironically, the one big disadvantage of the Strike-class cruiser was a side effect of its biggest advantage. Due to the modular design of the ship, a single, well-placed hit could damage the densely arrayed power connectors between two sections of the ship, shutting down entire systems or weapon batteries. If the ship suffered too many critical hits by large-impact weapons (such as proton torpedoes or heavy turbolasers), its structure might simply break apart (as was the fate of the Termagant).[7] By the time the ship was introduced into full naval service, this was considered only a minor flaw, as the Empire had enough resources to replenish damaged or lost components that were considered "disposable" at that time.

Strike-class cruiser Size

Strike-class cruiser shown to scale with an Imperial-class Star Destroyer (1,600 m)

However, as the war raged on and large starships started to become rare, the Imperial Remnant felt the need to make this otherwise reliable, versatile, and thus tactically important class of cruisers more durable, which resulted in reinforcing the connections between the cruiser's basic integral structure and the attached modules in order to prevent easy decoupling. Nevertheless, these spots remained the most vulnerable parts of the Strike-class, and pilots and commanders on both sides of the Galactic Civil War adapted their tactics to deal with this knowledge.

At least one Strike-class cruiser, Peregrine, was modified by the Rebel Alliance with two large, bulbous housings for gravity well projectors, which were removed from a captured Imperial Interdictor cruiser. This ship was designated by the Rebels as a modified strike cruiser.

The Strike-class cruiser was also redesigned to produce the Eidolon for Sate Pestage, but this prototype never went into full production.

One Strike-class cruiser, the Termagant, was used by Warlord Zsinj alongside his Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist to intercept and destroy a New Republic bacta convoy.

Behind the scenes

In Polish translations of various Star Wars novels, the Loronar Strike-class cruiser is consistently called krążownik uderzeniowy (uderzeniowy is the adjective form of uderzenie, "strike"), which refers to the ship's role, not its design. This translation may have been chosen over Krążownik klasy Uderzenie (the literal translation of "Strike-class cruiser") because Uderzenie is both phonetically and semantically unsuitable for naming the ship's class, while the adjective form is acceptable. It could also be a translator error (not paying attention to the capital letters).

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 Starships of the Galaxy (Saga Edition)
  2. ↑ 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 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 Imperial Sourcebook, Second Edition
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: TIE Fighter
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Rebellion
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Imperial Handbook: A Commander's Guide
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 X-Wing: The Krytos Trap
Loronar starship classes
Transports
B-7 light freighter · Field Secured Container Vessel
Loronar medium transport
MOD-17 container freighter · Ycaqt droid cargo ship
Patrol ships
Regulator X-Q2 System Patrol Cruiser · X-Q1 patrol craft
YQ-400 Monitor droid patrol ship
Scout ships
"Out System" Scout Vessel · SkyBlind
Far*Reach IV PQR
Starfighters
Needle fighter
Frigates
Crusader XX-777 prototype droid frigate
Cruisers
Belarus-class medium cruiser · Strike-class medium cruiser
Battlestations
Torpedo Sphere
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