Finally, another MC-80b star cruiser!!!!

The MC-80b star cruiser was developed 6 months after the battle of Endor. It was to be an interm cruiser until the MC-90 series was completed. The first of its class was the Mon Remonda. It served for several years, participating in the capture of Coruscant and the hunt for Warlord Zsinj. It was finally destroyed 6 years after Endor, during the battle of Calamari. Despite all of this, the Mon Remonda was the only star cruiser ever specifically mentioned as being of the MC-80b class.

Several months back, I saw a thread that discussed this very issue. Since then, the book Destiny's Way came out. In that book, we seen the only other confirmed MC-80b mentioned in the EU. It was the Mon Adapyne, flagship of Keyan Farlander. Why did it takes so long for another MC-80b to be mentioned? Assuming that they were built up until the production of the MC-90, why do we see little reference to them? I put up this thread to here your ideas.

 

in the GFFA: most likely because if there's a better model of the ship, that's the one to go for

in Del Rey books: an idea lost in the shuffle until "Destiny's Way"

 

Perhaps there have been others except they were listed as Mon Cal cruisers. There are so many ships that are only listed as being a Mon Cal cruiser, a frigate, Star Destroyer, etc. I would think that if every single ship in a book had their class listed it would look fairly odd.

 

I agree. The only reason I brought this up is because when the Mon Remonda first came out, it was a popular ship among the fans. It was even given its own section in the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels. For fans of the Rogue Squadron series, the vessel is mentioned several times. (read Solo command, it shows you how tough a star cruiser is, when it takes on the SSD Ironfist.)I also agree that many times the classes are not listed in the books, but in sourcebooks and on fan based websites, many people discuss what class each cruiser is from.(check out Tech Commentaries:Warships of the Mon Calamari)

 

I think it helped that the Iron Fist had just beaten her way through a Kuati shipyard, and Imperial fleet, and had been hunted continuously for two years at that point. The Iron Fist was pretty beat up, as impressive as she was.

 

X-wing series, you mean. The Rogue Squadron series is a comic series.

 

I thought the Rogue Squadron series was a video game series? ?

 

That too. Stackpole was asked to do comics concerning Rogue Squadron, which he did. At the time he was asked, he had written background info on the squadron explaing events prior to the reformation of the squadron we see in the first book of the X-wing series. This info was used as a basis for the comic series.