Someone knows what are these ships ?

A. Cloud City patrol craft

B. Sheathipede

C. Covenant Cruiser

5 minutes ago, JJ48 said:

C. Covenant Cruiser

Destroys planet killing space station, wields planet killing ships.

A. Rebel refueling ship

B. ?

C. ?

Back to the original topic:

I’m also very curious. Is it just floating debris? Was it Lucas CGI that canonizes some Legends material? Is it something else largely lost to time?

Ok, getting back on topic, then. I suppose there's a couple ways to look at this. From a real-world standpoint, I doubt they were intended to be any specific ships, and I suspect they were just thrown together to fill out the scene. However, that doesn't change the fact that they're in the film, and therefore require some form of explanation.

'A' is the one you can see the most clearly at 0:09-0:10. It has sort of twin pods on the front that kind of look like a CR-90's bridge turned sideways, so I'm going to guess some sort of Corellian design. However, the motion definitely reveals that it's closer to the viewer than the Y-Wing, which appears only a little smaller than it, so I'm going to go with it being a starfighter or at most a transport of some kind.

'B' looks like debris to me, but it's moving along with everything else. The closest craft I can think of is the Sheathipede, though it's not quite right for that. Maybe a newer design.

'C' appears to be similar to whatever craft is visible at 0:00-0:02 in the upper-left. My best guess is an MC-30c with light and shadows messing with the lines a bit, though they would have to be pretty far away in that case, as the MC-30c is almost twice the length of a Nebulon-B.

3 hours ago, JJ48 said:

'C' appears to be similar to whatever craft is visible at 0:00-0:02 in the upper-left. My best guess is an MC-30c with light and shadows messing with the lines a bit, though they would have to be pretty far away in that case, as the MC-30c is almost twice the length of a Nebulon-B.

In regard of the general movement of the fleet, I think they are starfighters rather than capital ships, kind of B-wings without s-foils, like the H-60 Tempest :

Massassi Temple cross section :

5 hours ago, Wedge Nantillais said:

In regard of the general movement of the fleet, I think they are starfighters rather than capital ships, kind of B-wings without s-foils, like the H-60 Tempest :

Could also just be b-wings but the s-foils don't make out well on the screen, I suppose.

50 minutes ago, Ixidor said:

Could also just be b-wings but the s-foils don't make out well on the screen, I suppose.

But they didn’t make them up until RotJ I thought...

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6 hours ago, Wedge Nantillais said:

In regard of the general movement of the fleet, I think they are starfighters rather than capital ships, kind of B-wings without s-foils, like the H-60 Tempest :

I was not previously aware of this ship, but you're right that it seems a decent fit!

3 minutes ago, ClassicalMoser said:

But they didn’t make them up until RotJ I thought...

That's why we need to differentiate between in-universe and real-world explanations. I'm perfectly willing to accept the idea that LucasFilm just threw some more ships on the screen and didn't really worry about what they were or whether they would ever use them again. However, they're there now and need to be accounted for in-universe. If a B-Wing or similar is what fits best, I'm perfectly fine saying that's what it is, regardless of whether it's what the filmmakers were thinking at the time.

I’m just curious what ILM threw together for this scene. Would be awesome to see appear in some new OT-era material.

Fleeing from Imperial tyranny, the last Nebulon-B leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest....

Nice video :

8 hours ago, Wedge Nantillais said:

Nice video :

The "Mon Cal" ship looks almost like it might be a refurbished Separatist frigate (given Prequel-era information). I would have assumed a Dreadnaught-class ship for the second one shown in the video.