Luke flew his T-65B X-wing towards the Mark I Imperial-class Star Destroyer and fired MG7-proton torpedoes.

"Artoo, look out!" he snapped as a TIE Interceptor flew towards them, laser cannons blazing.

The Imperial-class Star Destroyer opened fire with its XX-9 dual turbolaser turrets and Luke jinked, knowing that his X-wing couldn't repel firepower of that magnitude. Just then, three Mon Calamari MC-40a Light Star Cruisers dropped out of hyperspace and immediately raised their shields.

Luke smiled. His T-65B X-wing squadron wasn't going to be able to destroy an Imperial-class Star Destroyer with just medium laser cannons and MG7-proton torpedoes, but the MC-40a Light Star Cruisers, with their MTL-5 quad turbolaser cannons, could handle it.

Luke flew his T-65B X-wing towards the Imperial-class Star Destroyer and fired proton torpedoes.

"Artoo, look out!" he snapped as a TIE Interceptor flew towards them, laser cannons blazing.

The Star Destroyer opened fire with its turbolaser turrets and Luke jinked, knowing that his starfighter couldn't repel firepower of that magnitude. Just then, three Rebel MC-40a light cruisers dropped out of hyperspace and immediately raised their shields.

Luke smiled. His squadron wasn't going to be able to destroy a Star Destroyer with just lasers and torpedoes, but the Mon Calamarian warships, with their quad turbolaser cannons, could handle it.

Luke flew his fighter towards the starship and fired warheads.

"Artoo, look out!" he snapped as an enemy fighter flew towards them, laser cannons blazing.

The big ship opened fire with its weapons and Luke jinked, knowing that his fighter couldn't repel firepower of that magnitude. Just then, three Rebel ships dropped out of hyperspace and immediately raised their shields.

Luke smiled. His guys weren't going to be able to destroy an Imperial warship, but the Rebel ships could handle it.

• Bow = Prow = Front


• Stern = Aft = Back


• Port = Larboard = Left


• Starboard = Right (from Steer Board, which was why you put the other side against the dock so you didn’t crunch your steering oar).


• Quarter = 45 degrees off (e.g. port forward quarter = ahead and to the left)


• Beam = Flank = Off to one side (e.g port beam = to your left and level with you)

• Broadside = Guns mounted along the side of a ship or the total number of guns that can fire to that side.


• Spinal = Mounted along the length of the ship, normally pointing forward (some SSDs have a mini-superlaser mounted this way).


• Point-Defence = Anti-Fighter / Anti-Missile light guns.

• Superlaser = Large beam weapon for killing planets or large ships.


• Turbolaser = Various sizes of pulse weapon from diddly little ones on Corvettes up to dirty great ones on SSDs.


• Laser = Fighter calibre gun for making holes in things. Shorter range than Turbolasers.


• Ion Cannon = Disables enemy computers and control systems rather than burning holes. Can act like an electric shock on Vong ships according to some authors.


• Concussion Missile = Light fast missile, most useful against smaller targets like fighters that can dodge.


• Proton Torpedo = Slower less agile missile with a lot more BLAM, can be used on smaller targets (as in Rogue Squadron novels) but useful for killing starships.


• Shadow Bomb = Proton Torpedo without an engine but with a more powerful warhead, generally used by Jedi but I’m sure someone like Wedge could aim well enough to not need the Force to guide and push it to the target.


• Splinter Fire = Rather than one big shot, that would make a nice deep hole, the gun fires less powerful shots more rapidly. This has the advantage of confusing Yuuzhan Vong defences as to what shot to block, and can be very useful when killing people on the ground as even a splinter shot is enough to kill most people.

• Roll = Rotating around the axis of flight (Half-Roll = rotating so your head and feet swap position, that way you can look “up” from your cockpit and see where you are going if you then loop “upwards” (as they did in ANH)).


• Yaw = Nose left or right movement.


• Pitch = Nose up or Nose down movement.


• Loop = Bring the nose up and keep bringing it up until it gets all the way back to where it was. (half-loop = only go half way, negative loop = put the nose down and keep putting it down)


• Bank = One wing up a bit, one wing down a bit. For some reason SW ships do this when turning even when not in atmosphere.

• Positive-G = Pushed down in your seat (if your inertial compensator is not at maximum).


• Black-Out = Pushed down in your seat hard enough the blood drains from your brain into your feet.


• Negative-G = Pulled out of your seat (if your inertial compensator is not at maximum).


• Red-Out = Pulled out of your seat enough the blood is forced into your head, more dangerous as can cause little blood vessels in eyes (bad) or brain (very bad) to pop.