So I was perusing a forum about Lego Star Wars builds when I encountered a ship type i've never noticed or realized was in Star Wars before and no i'm not talking about the Dornean Gunship. It appears in the Empire Strikes Back for a brief few moments. What is this?!

By the by if you want to see it in an incredible Lego Rebel Fleet check it out in the spoiler tag below.

I wasn't even aware this one had a name, Forresto. I always assumed it had to be a fleet tender or transport.

It doesn't.

It was not a coherent ship. It was a bunch of bits stuck together in a vaguely ship-like nature and stuck on an effects rod to be a background model in what was an obscenely low budget-private funded movie.

To my knowledge and research, that one, in particular, has never been canonised with a class or name.


Also, same Question, from 2014, in the X-Wing Forums:

21 minutes ago, Drasnighta said:

To my knowledge and research, that one, in particular, has never been canonised with a class or name.

Yet, it did appear on-screen in a canon film, so it is the very definition of a 'canonical' ship.

Granted, it's unnamed, and with no back-story - but the Dornean gunship from Return of the Jedi was in the exact same boat until the 2006 "What's the story" contest had a fan come up with a race/name/backstory for it that was good enough to win the prize of being added to the Star Wars canon. And now we've got Dornean gunships everywhere...

(And, honestly, while this thing IS a bit...ugly...I mean, it's not as heinous as the Baleen-class, and that thing IS named canon and playing a starring role in a movie...)

Its clearly a podracer.

:^]

It is a ship-thing that appears in Canon, correct.

AS a background ship. A piece of Junk.

Its hard to refer to something without having something to refer to, is all I am saying.

... And the Lord of Merchandise himself, George Lucas, didn't capitalise on it - which, itself, should be saying something....

So maybe we should have a "name this ship" contest

I dub this ship the Corellian B.E.N. class fleet tender.

I was thinking along the lines of the B.U.F.F.-Class Fleet Tender

I would have named it fluffy, or Lord Ticklebottom, but that's just me.

Pods look like they can be equipment or ammo resupply containers, easy to load quickly into combat ships, so:

Corellian Rapid-Refit RR50

If in armada, can be a flotilla that either can grant combat bonus to a one neighbouring ship or has exhaust abilities that can affect the capabilities of a friendly

Shipy McShipface

I can say this much, it's more likely to get a name and identity in the new canon than in Legends. The ship went what, almost thirty years without a name and background even with Decipher and co in the works?

If everything old is new again, there's cause to go back and eventually make it prominent. The Dornean gunship is one example, now it's showing up everywhere.

I think I'd interpret that to be much smaller than the LEGO guy did. To me, those two front "pods" look an awful lot like the cockpits off of a YT-1300 Corellian-style freighter. Which would make it sort of the 'cloud car' of spaceships, and it's basically all cockpit and engines. Maybe as some sort of recon or fleet-observation small freighter? Like it runs around and visually assesses damage on ships or something to help coordinate repairs and damage containment?


I think it'd be a lot more interesting if it is indeed much larger and those pods aren't cockpits (they do lack the front pane). In that case, maybe something like a Tibianna Gas freighter or something that offers refueling support? Indeed, I even rather like the design of the ship in that case, as its rough profile fits the basic aesthetic and still feels very unique.

12 hours ago, Drasnighta said:

It is a ship-thing that appears in Canon, correct.

AS a background ship. A piece of Junk.

Its hard to refer to something without having something to refer to, is all I am saying.

... And the Lord of Merchandise himself, George Lucas, didn't capitalise on it - which, itself, should be saying something....

As I said, literally the EXACT same situation as the "Dornean Gunship" - until 2006.

It has a "blink-and-you-miss-it" scene in Return of the Jedi as 'ROJ BG SHIP' (IE., 'Return of the Jedi Back-Ground Ship'), and was never seen or heard from since - in any merchandising or EU material. Until a fan wrote up an interesting enough story for it in 2006 that got added to canon, and the ship now has a name and background and is popping up all over the place.

15 hours ago, Megatronrex said:

I dub this ship the Corellian B.E.N. class fleet tender.

Classic Ben.

Ok, well this guy may have never been officially named, and has been forgotten, but maybe we can do something about that. I may be slightly sleep deprived because I was having trouble getting to sleep and decided to make this instead, but hey, fans helped get the Dornean gunship recognized, lets see if we can do something about this one. I'm a little rusty, and tired, but here's my rough estimation of a model of it I just threw together in 2 hours, at a Tanker/bulk Freighter scale with the center tower being the bridge. identified part of the pods as vents, and the smudge on the back chunk kinda looked like a hanger bay window, and there was a bump that looked like a turret, so that's what I put. May try refining this guy with some feedback, maybe some basic texturing, but we'll see. Well here you guys go. It's not suppossed to be fancy, but better than the tiny blurry picture we have

Definitely a tanker, and we need a better name. Although since we're guessing Correllian(and that's the ref I used for bridge placement) That means numbers

Ok numbers

MC 83N

1 hour ago, Ginkapo said:

Ok numbers

MC 83N

Eh, 81N makes more sense for a Joke cargo ship name. Now lets get a little more serious here.

5 hours ago, MandoBard said:

Ok, well this guy may have never been officially named, and has been forgotten, but maybe we can do something about that. I may be slightly sleep deprived because I was having trouble getting to sleep and decided to make this instead, but hey, fans helped get the Dornean gunship recognized, lets see if we can do something about this one. I'm a little rusty, and tired, but here's my rough estimation of a model of it I just threw together in 2 hours, at a Tanker/bulk Freighter scale with the center tower being the bridge. identified part of the pods as vents, and the smudge on the back chunk kinda looked like a hanger bay window, and there was a bump that looked like a turret, so that's what I put. May try refining this guy with some feedback, maybe some basic texturing, but we'll see. Well here you guys go. It's not suppossed to be fancy, but better than the tiny blurry picture we have

Definitely a tanker, and we need a better name. Although since we're guessing Correllian(and that's the ref I used for bridge placement) That means numbers

Corellian Rapid Refueler RR50, medium supply transport?

1 minute ago, Muelmuel said:

Corellian Rapid Refueler RR50, medium supply transport?

Now that sounds better. Now, lets explain the choice of a hanger bay: Due to it's hazardous cargo the RR50 is not allowed to enter atmospheres or approach dense activity centers when loaded, so it carries several shuttles along with several fighters to defend it's cargo from Pirates when doing interplanetary runs. Originally commissioned for the Correllian Defense Force To help stabilize patrols during times of conflict without having to leave their post, after a time remote outposts in the Outer Rim acquired them for conflict regions where stable fuel supplies were hard to maintain. Eventually they fell into the hands of the Rebels for use in maintaining their fleets in hiding. Being synonymous with remote outposts allows them to go to more populated systems without fear of being intercepted by Imperial blockades.

The ability of a pair of them to fuel a small fleet makes them a valuable asset to the Rebel cause, however their cargo makes them extremely vulnerable to direct hull fire, while having heavy shields, they tend to have light armenant with 2 Turrets, and a pair of forward facing ions, they tend to be defended by the handful of fighters they carry. When destroyed they can cause hull damage to any ship they are near, and destroy any fighters in close proximity

Welp, there's my write up, what do you guys think?

I would like to change the name to RR00:

(background for 00 lore: designers only made this ship when requested by the correllian defense force for a fast refuel and refit solution to combating ships. They were skeptical of its survivability in this role and thus named it 00 as a joke. At the same time they minimised the ship's core structure to reduce profile size and possibly increase its chances. The ship proved itself in test simulations and real combat scenarios, with captains nimbly using their allies as cover and timing their operations in tandem. Thus the designers quickly attributed the name to the 2 highly modifiable pods that it carries to resupply ships instead.)

Like your lore @MandoBard, except for the high shields part. I think the size of this ship is too small to really keep strong projectors, and they would also interfere with logistical refueling, etc.

15 minutes ago, Muelmuel said:

I would like to change the name to RR00:

(background for 00 lore: designers only made this ship when requested by the correllian defense force for a fast refuel and refit solution to combating ships. They were skeptical of its survivability in this role and thus named it 00 as a joke. At the same time they minimised the ship's core structure to reduce profile size and possibly increase its chances. The ship proved itself in test simulations and real combat scenarios, with captains nimbly using their allies as cover and timing their operations in tandem. Thus the designers quickly attributed the name to the 2 highly modifiable pods that it carries to resupply ships instead.)

Like your lore, except for the high shields part. I think the size of this ship is too small to really keep strong projectors, and they would also interfere with logistical refueling, etc.

I can agree on that. It's a small ship I'm thinking about troop carrier size, but it's one that would have decent anti-fighter, but be pretty weak against an actual ship in armada. However if the fighters do take it out, at that range it'll destroy most of them. That's be an interesting mechanic for armada, a ship that when destroyed has a 2 movement radius of splash damage. say 3-4 for fighters(enough to take out unshielded fighters like TIEs for sure, but shielded may survive, and lower ship damage, question would be hull or shield. While alive it can give some sort of buff to bigger ships. It'd be a dual ship base like troop carriers and gozantis.

edit: next we refine the profile, finalize weapon layout. and size

That dorsal gun turret needs to be located higher on the superstructure. It's basically got no field of fire in it's current location.

15 minutes ago, idiewell said:

That dorsal gun turret needs to be located higher on the superstructure. It's basically got no field of fire in it's current location.

Good thought, did it lower due to basing it off what was basically a smudge. That and there'd likely be one on the underside as well