Where are "The Big Corellian Ships"?

[CRMcNeill]

[CRMcNeill]

[ForbinProject]

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[CRMcNeill]

[moirdryd]

I think it's going to be one of those things that kinda slipped through the cracks. Given that at the time that the immortal words were uttered by Han Solo, Star Destroyers were not known as Star Destroyers and I'm fairly sure the implication is that the Imperial Cruisers Han is referring to are in fact what ESB would reveal to us as Star Destroyers. The script and screen direction for New Hope lists the ISD's as Imperial Cruisers which makes the connect seem pretty clear.

Obviously it was only much later that we have the information about KDY producing Imperial Star Destroyers NOT Corellian Shipyards (although I suppose it's feasible that Kuat could own Shipyards at the Corellian System). Also, if we are looking for in universe logic and I could be very wrong here, I thought the classic dreadnought design was one produced by Corellian Shipyards.

[Whill]

[moirdryd]

Thanks Whill

[CRMcNeill]

So, I've been thinking about this for a bit, and had an epiphany. The perfect "Big Corellian Ship" is one that I've already statted: the Dauntless-Class Heavy Cruiser from Star Wars: Rebellion.

Its official background has it as a converted liner from SoroSuub, which upon reflection strikes me as lack of imagination on the part of the game designers; it's basically the same background as the MC80, substituting SoroSuub for Mon Cal. And since SoroSuub already has one new ship in the Rebellion game (the Liberator-Class Star Cruiser), it's a simple matter to just rewrite the background of the Dauntless to make it into "the Big Corellian Ship."
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[CRMcNeill]

In fact, there could be two variants; one with heavy turbolasers for ship-to-ship combat, the other with the main batteries removed and replaced by starfighter launch bays. That way, a single ship could cover two slots from the original post: battleships and carriers.
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[CRMcNeill]

So, what I'm strongly considering is, since no one in the official SWU has used the Diktat's image for anything, I'm going to stick with that one. For the Valiant, I'm thinking of co-opting the Dauntless-Class Heavy Cruiser from Star Wars: Rebellion.



The Dauntless' official background is that it is a converted SoroSuub passenger liner (sound familiar) that can actually outgun an ISD. The problem for me is that Rebellion already has one SoroSuub Capital Ship - the Liberator-Class Star Cruiser - which looks nothing like the Dauntless. The idea of the Rebel Fleet being a hodge-podge of various ship types contributed by multiple different allied races and governments is pretty core to the Alliance, and since the above image gives no real clue as to scale, it's pretty easy to just throw out the video game's backstory and tack the image and name onto my background for the Valiant.

It's not my prefered solution, but it works...
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"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.

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[Inquisitor1138]

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[Inquisitor1138]

ah, thankks for that!

and then, TEH TYPOS STRUCK BAAAAAAAAACK!!!