Suprosa

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The Suprosa was a heavily modified Imperial MB-C1 medium transport.

History[]

Allegedly hauling fertilizer, the Suprosa ran under Xizor Transport Systems contract.^[2] 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.^[3]

It was raided by members of the Rebel Alliance,^[4] 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[5]^[6]

Many of the Bothans died in the effort when Suprosa launched a diamond boron missile into the Y-wing formation, obliterating everything in a 500-meter radius. However, 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.^[1] 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 boarded the ship to secure the information.^[1] After fighting Stormtroopers and a loader droid he downloaded the plans.^[7]^[8]

The information was taken to Kothlis to be decoded.^[4]^[3] 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.

Behind the scenes[]

Suprosasketch — Early concept sketch of the freighter by Jon Knoles, along with a human figure and the *Outrider*.

The Shadows of the Empire novel identifies Suprosa as a Corellian freighter.

In the Shadows of the Empire novel, there was not enough time to notify Rebel command of the "Endor Project" plans being transferred on the Suprosa; the novel implies that other than Luke Skywalker and Dash Rendar, all of the pilots present were Bothans and Luke is credited with disabling the ship by himself. In the video game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, the Alliance comes to support, with Ace incapacitating the freighter. For this article, both are assumed to be correct, with Ace keeping the ship from firing its weapons again, and Luke disabling the ship's engines.

The Shadows of the Empire level taking place in the Suprosa makes the ship look substantially larger than it seems from the exterior. It also has a hangar, and Dash has to open it so that the Outrider enters.