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MC80 wingless Liberty type Star Cruiser

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MC80 wingless Liberty type Star Cruiser

Production information
Manufacturer	Mon Calamari Shipyards^[1]
Product line	MC80 Star Cruisers^[1]
Class	Star Cruiser^[2]
Technical specifications
Length	Standard length: 1,200 meters^[1]
Engine unit(s)	Thrusters of various size (10)^[2]
Hyperdrive system	Equipped^[2]
Armament	Equipped^[2]
Usage
Role(s)	Carrier^[1] Destroyer^[2]
Era(s)	Rebellion era
Affiliation	Alliance to Restore the Republic^[1]

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The MC80 wingless Liberty type Star Cruiser was a capital ship fielded by the Mon Calamari.

1 Characteristics
2 History
3 Behind the scenes
4 Appearances
5 Notes and references

CharacteristicsEdit

The ship shared its design with the MC80 Liberty type Star Cruiser, but had no extended wing-sections, thus cutting down on the amount of shield and tractor beam projectors as well as gun batteries. The lightened cruiser countered with an extra thruster at the rear, in place of the ventral main sensor array, that increased its maneuverability.^[2]

HistoryEdit

Many of these vessels were used by the Rebel Alliance at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY. They made up the bulk of the heavy warships, along with the winged Liberty model and the MC80 Home One type.^[2]

Behind the scenesEdit

According to sources in the Expanded Universe, no two MC80 cruisers appear to be the same. Even so, the Liberty type MC80 class appears to be sub-divisible into at least two sub-classes, based on the designs seen in Return of the Jedi. The first is the well-known winged type, whose appearance is similar to the Liberty, the other one is this wingless type. Both variants were filmed using essentially the same studio model.

While working on the film ILM workers wanted to pad out the Rebel fleet. This was achieved by modifying the original wingless model into the Liberty type by adding wings and removing one engine. ^[3]^[4]

Because these ships are so obscure in the film and the original model has become the Liberty type, very little is known about this wingless version. There are no specific mentions in any reference book and pictures of the original model are scarce.

This is further illustrated by the fact there are no named ships identified as this type. Some fans have tentatively labeled this subclass as the "Reef Home-type", after the cruiser of undetermined type mentioned in The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook. Reef Home later appeared as a Liberty type in the game Star Wars: Empire at War, ruling it out as a possible wingless type.