Lit Battle of Endor - Mon Cal cruisers

I recall a section of the Dark Empire Sourcebook saying the Alliance Command Fleet consisted of 40 Mon Calamari Star Cruisers and that the Command Fleet was at Endor.

 

Were they on the other side of the Death Star? The rebel fleet was pathetically small in the film. It's hard to believe they were ever a serious threat to the empire.

 

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I couldn't find it either. p.24 says "the Rebellion's entire war fleet" was at Endor, but AFAICT there are no numbers given -- the only number related to Mon Cal cruisers I found was the passage on p.98 about seven Mon Cal cruisers being destroyed while being under repair at Hast Shipyards shortly after Endor. Which gives us a lower bound but nothing beyond that.

 

Ahem.. is it allowed to post a link to the entire DE Sourcebook like that here? Thought that was illegal? Just asking cause I might need the same trick for future topics then. Or are out of print items only availeable on used books market legal to be hosted on fansites??? I'd like to do that if that is legal indeed, or does it depend on country? If so the post may be illegal in some and not others, how does TFN deal with that then?

 

Looking at the Rebel Command Fleet page on Wookieepedia is where we get the number. Obviously this is wrong.

 

Good questions, @ColeFardreamer. I assumed that since Bongiorno had posted it, and since it is out of print and West End Games not only no longer has the SW license but doesn't exist anymore, that posting it was fair game. But I could easily be wrong in that assumption. I don't seem to be able to delete my post, but I suppose I could report it. @Sinrebirth , what would be the ruling on this? Does it fall under "Piracy, Bootlegging, and Plagiarism"? : "1. Linking to, mentioning or requesting underground sites, pirate sites, etc. to get copyrighted materials is prohibited. Discussion of widely-known, established filesharing services (such as uTorrent) or websites (Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents) is also not acceptable." https://boards.theforce.net/threads/rules-of-the-jedi-council-forums.27141421/

 

Truce at Bakura Sourcebook, p. 9, says fighter casualties were over 20%, and 75% of remaining Rebel ships needed substantial repair.

 

I'm kind of shocked the casualties weren't higher.

 

It's a bit of a stretch but at least it's something to go on rather than pure speculation. It makes sense that many of the ships needing "substantial repair" would be capital ships too, because they can take lots of damage yet still be worth salvaging. So while "10 MC cruisers at Endor" is not set in stone, the number is a good anchor - the answer will be somewhere around that, with error bars mostly in the upwards direction.

 

Yup - especially since several were destroyed completely by the Death Star II itself.

 

The sourcebook makes it sound like the over-20% casualty rate is specifically for personnel, not ships, but there's a citation to the novel itself, where it's a more general "twenty percent of our forces".

 

Legends Mon Cal Star Cruisers active around the time of Endor:

MC80 Home One type: Defiance, Home One, Independence, Unnamed (destroyed at Endor)
MC80 winged Liberty type: Alliance, Ardent, Autonomy, Cathleen, Crucible, Endeavor, Equity, Falcariae, Justice, Liberty (destroyed at Endor), Lulsla, Maria, Ossus Day, Reef Home, Renhoek, Tano, Valorus, Yali
MC80 wingless Liberty type aka MC80A: Ardent, Columbia, Excelsior, Lutdze, Odysseus, Naritus, Solidarity, Stimsenj'kat
MC40A: Condor, Margaret, Sullute, Valiant
MC30C: Admonition, Foresight

That's what I got.

 

Kathleen? Margaret? They really weren't trying very hard, were they?

 

X-wing: Alliance game. They tried.

 

Apparently not.