ironically... originally the Imperial destroyer was to be actually smaller than the rebel ship it was pursuing.. wich would match our classic definition of the term "destroyer" (a smaller , faster and well armed ship that trades mass and armour for speed while keeping a more than decent firepower to take on bigger ships).. there are arround the blueprints of the original star destroyer and you can see its much much smaller than the final.. George Lucas upscaled the destroyer (and probably downscalled the corvette some) because he wanted the audience to get clear in that opening shot the uneven war the rebellion was having against the Empire.. it shows in a single shot the desperate situation the alliance was and the might of the GE
@@sparrowlt Absolutely! So much is revealed to the audience with that one shot, and it immediately throws us into this universe. I can't think of a more effective approach to immerse the audience into your story.
@@irradiatedslagheap7933 You do recall correctly. In the configuration you described, that ship was supposed to be the Millennium Falcon, but because it looked a bit too similar to the Eagle Transporters from Space: 1999 (not to mention the name of Falcon), the design had to be altered and repurposed as Princess Leia's consular ship. The design you described which was meant to be the Millennium Falcon got redesignated as a Corellian Gunship (a Legends ship now).
Interesting trivia note: The design for this ship originally was at a different slightly smaller scale - with only two turrets dorsal and ventral - with a "Bomber Nose" cockpit up front. If that sounds familiar - it should. This ship WAS going to be the Millennium Falcon! However - the way the landing gear pods (later removed) were laid out, plus the overall shape of the ship, made George Lucas realize that the design looked too much like the Eagle Transporter from Space 1999! So the famous forked disc/side slung cockpit version of the Millenium Falcon was designed late in production. And the former design of the Falcon was re-purposed as the Blockade Runner with added details, "grimblies" to indicate a larger ship scale and extra turrets and the hammerhead forward hull. Hey - why totally scrap the model? We're on a budget here! :D
" This ship WAS going to be the Millennium Falcon! " - you're thinking of the CEC DP20, which didn't make the cut into the movie, but was featured in legends.
@@PetersaberHDNo, the model that was seen in Star Wars as the blockade runner was the original model for the Millennium Falcon. When Lucas decided to change the model they made some changes to the existing model and used it in the opening scene. Remember there was no CGI back then. Everything in, the original version of, Star Wars are kit bashed scale models.
@@PetersaberHD I've looked it up and it appears the CEC DP20 was developed from the initial "Falcon" design but evolved in a slightly different direction. (Probably to more easily fit in with the established canon of the time (Legends). ) But it IS closer to the original design than the Blockade Runner.
Ironically.. Valerian and Laureline fans today bitterly acuse Lucas to have copied their ship the XB982 because both are saucer shaped.. wich i personally doubt preciselly because Lucas had allready changed the design to avoid copy accusations
*Sigh* The entire Scene was terrible. The Entire Sequence was terrible. The ending of the Battle of Scariff counters the information we received in Episode IV. "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy..." The battle wasn't a victory. By my count, only 6 fighters, 3 blockade runners, and a ramship (which is never shown anywhere else) escape. Even more concerning, the Rebel fleet didn't try to Flee or Fight the Star Destroyer, they just sat there and got destroyed. Next, the Imperial's "intercepted transmissions" which lead them to Tantive IV. All we see is Fan Service as Darth Vader wrecks Admiral Raddus' ship. Just to see Tantive IV escape. Okay, why is Tantive IV there? It's a consular ship with diplomatic immunity. Why would the captain risk being identified by imperial forces at a secure imperial facility which is under attack? Just because a Captain says "we never received any transmissions" nor do those transmissions appear in the log/data banks... doesn't mean the ship never received them. It just means the Captain took measures to remove all traces of them from his ship. This is currently possible to do. So, it is what happened. This is why Darth Vader threw him away. He knew he lied. If Disney wants to rewrite Star Wars History, they should have just said "nothing is canon". Making movies which contradict the OT is very bad.
While I am sorry about how you feel about Rogue One a Star Wars Story, I wish you had not used my comment as an excuse to vent you hatred.@@aralornwolf3140
I remember there was one mission in X-Wing where you had to fly cover for an unmanned Corvette, the Ram's Head. She was fitted with a prototype shield generator that allowed her to be used to plow through a number of ISD bridge modules in their slipways at Kuat Drive Yards. She decapitated at least an Imperial squadron, as far as I can recall. Good times.
"A CEC ship will keep going until it hits something." Considering that they regularly fly through asteroid fields, I feel like CEC ships don't keep going much.
One of the best features of the CR-90's were how modular and easily altered they were. From stripping out 1/3 of the engines and the entire weapons array to be turned into a diplomatic luxury ship, or swapping out everything between the cockpit and engine block and replacing it with hangar space, these little buggers could be refitted to do just about anything, without the use of a dedicated shipyard. Some were even turned into 'fire ships', replacing the crew with remote controls and packing them to the gills with enough explosive to crack a Star Destroyer in half.
You know for many years we just called this this a Corellian Corvette if we wanted to be technical, and Rebel Blockade Runner if we didn't. And it always bugged me that it didn't have a number designation or anything. Well we finally have a designator for this, the first starship ever depicted in any star wars film
It's funny because no one seems to know how large the CR90s are. In Battlefront 1 and 2, they are as long as the Falcon, in rebels they are sometimes four times the length of 3.5 a-wings, but the same make of ship as Grievou' Invisible Hand is dwarfed by it lmao.
@@unclearsector4266 it allways was 150m.. in Rebels they show very well at 150m wich is about 12 times the lengh of an X-Wing.. wookiepedia incorrectly listed them at 126m for a while but that was a confussion with the CR70..
In Legends there were CR90's modified to carry TIEs in the forward cargo hold, the Wraiths captured one and modified it carry their X-Wings in the hold, with the TIEs moved to the escape pod launchers.
@@miles2378 *fire sale Yeah, they did, when the company that manufactured them went bust. But thousands and thousands were sold to legitimate companies and space truckers before that happened.
The Corellian Corvette is my favorite starship in the Star Wars universe. It reminds me a bit of the Eagle Transporters from Space:1999. The original design was meant to be the Millennium Falcon, but because of the name, and its very similar appearance to the Eagles from S:1999, the ship was altered a bit, (more engines, and turning the conical cockpit section into a hammerhead cockpit section) and repurposed as Princess Leia's Tantive IV (Tan-tiv-ee....as pronounced in the Star Wars Radio Drama in 1980). The original unaltered design was repurposed as a (now Legends) starship known as the Corellian Gunship.
I honestly love the look of the CR90. It's one of the more believable spaceship designs from Star Wars. Front cockpit module, middle living quarters, aft fuel tank module, and massive engines for quick delta-v adjustment. All it needs is a few RCS thrusters and I could easily see a ship of this design in Elite Dangerous or something.
So it can essentially serve as an AA Frigate, providing a fleet AA Screen like the Fletcher class DDs in addition to a Starfighter CAP. A truly versatile Warship, indeed.
Umm Dad,… I'm a registered member of the Alderanian Royal family. We, _,I mean I,_ did alright after you abandoned me. I'm thinking of getting a restraining order after the way you treated mum though. So don't think you can tell me what to do.
I just light bulbed and realized that, "Alliance to Restore the Rebublic", could very well have the acronym of, "A.R.R." . And now my night has been made. ARR!!! Oh, that was way funnier playing over in my head. I need to sleep more.
The Corellain Corporation, INCOM and Mon Calamari Shipyards are the top 3 ship building groups that the Rebel Alliance used in their fight against the Empire and it didn't go to waste.
god i love that ship, sadly not a lot of games feature to command it. star wars started off with the cr 90, star citizen started off with the constellation andromeda, both do carry out their job verry well and attempt the same capabilidties, turrets, got room for a parasite fighter, super multi role ships. i love em
Yup. And at the battle of Atollon you saw Nebulon-B's getting taken down by just a few TIE rounds. And when Hera attacked Lothal, a TIE Defender literally just pops apart when shot by an X-Wing rather than being blown to pieces. And when Hera went to Concord Dawn, other A-Wings are one shot by the Mando fighters while hers can somehow take at least 10 and still manage to hyperspace away. Pretty much all combat in Rebels made no sense.
@@joechace8214 the only ship destruction that made sense was at 1:48. The second TIE Bomber was able to hit the segment where both the reactor and shield generator are located. In a New Hope, the reactor of the Tantive IV is shut down before it can tear apart the ship, but that CR90 in the Battle of Attolon was not so lucky
@@joechace8214 I agree, it does not make sense. I did not activly watched the series, but some parts of it on RUclips. I remember one scene where Hera was flying an X-Wing and some Imperial Pilot was following her in a TIE Defender. They both fly in the direction of Thrawns flagship, and Thrawn gives the order to open fire. Then, both fighters are hit by the really heavy Turbolasers positioned at the side of an Imperial Star Destroyer. And they only loose their shields. Like WTF??? Those gun turrets on the ISD are like 50m in Diameter and belong to the heaviest and deadliest weapons ever put on a spaceship, and when they hit a fighter the fighter losses its shields but is undamaged? I lost it at that point. Its bullshit.
One of my favorite corvette designs in all of sci fi! An excellent anti-fighter vessel, with loads of speed and agility to keep it out of harm’s way. The massive engine cluster has always been a favorite aspect of the design for me, as well as how the secondary gun turrets doubled (at least in Legends) as high capacity armed escape pods.
There's only one problem I have with Rouge One and that is that in the first released movie of Star Wars Vader said that they traced the communication signal to her CR90. But overall, it was the best Disney Star Wars project.
The original model in ANH was apparently bigger than the Star Destroyer featured in the film. Plus it was originally going to be the Millennium Falcon, but was then changed due to its similarities to the Eagle from Space 1999.Also worth mentioning that in the Legends EU there were a few of these craft that had its mid section expanded to serve as a hangar bay for one squadron of A-Wings.
Hmm, I just noticed something interesting about that SD model in the opener - the forward hangar (the smaller hangar) doesn't actually appear to be a large open-box style hangar that I always thought it would be. But it looks more like a mirrored array of launch-tubes, that have a down-(relative) facing slope to them. It's fairly obvious at ~ 0:33 ish
I love the Light Freighter version of this ship, the XS-800 light freighter. Compared to the YT-1300, it carries more cargo, more passengers, and according to the source book, a much more comfortable ride.
In the book Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company we learn that these things can carry multiple drop ships (likely U wings) into battle. Don’t know how they’d manage to stick more than one in there though. Maybe they have them on some sort of rack?
In Rebels we see that a corvette can carry up to 3 fighters externally in the docking ports.. we also see shuttles docked to those so its fairly to asume it can carry at least 3 U-Wings.. if you mod 2 more ports in the front area of the main body where the escape pods are you can add 2 more easily
@@rebelappliance771 well its a mess ... Rebels clearly had the fighters being externally carried in the docking rings with up to 3.. Resistance shows a CR90 from the Rebels era and it has the ventral bay
I have the original Star Wars ship blue print book. I remember the Tantive IV has a bunch of interesting things. The entire top deck is a luxury detachable life boat. The 4 torrents on the top can be used as armed scape pods. It had no fighter hangar. You should get those books
I've seen art of a CR-90 modified as a carrier before and in an old Star wars rts from the 90's had a variant that removed the area for passengers and crew replacing it as a giant crane to deploy prefab buildings from orbit. A similar thing was done with a Lambda -class shuttle...
the cr90 sure is a great ship, but I personally think that one could improve it's stopping power considerably with the addition of some enormous mass-driver cannons
“Can’t serve as a star fighter carrier” Ah, you’ve never heard of the legends of the Night Caller. I thought not. It’s not a story that Disney would tell you. The Night Caller was a CR90 that Wraith Squadron (then under the command of Wedge Antilles) commandeered from Warlord whatever-the-crap his name was. They later modified the ship to hold the ships four tie fighters externally, and the squadron complement of x wings, (11 at the time) in the forward launch bay.
As an anti fighter Corvette it would be brilliant for the Empire to use and would cover their greatest weakness - _snub fighter raids._ Imagine every ISD having a escort fleet of CR-90's in the anti Starfighter configuration, it wouldn't have cost the Empire much (since they wouldn't spring for Lancer frigates or DP-20's) and would have decimated the Rebel forces … until they worked out that they should only approach from behind. But in a furball CR-90'S and Ties could cover each other's six's. Coming Soon, the CR-91, with tailgunner.
The empire used its larger TIE Fighter as anti-fighter screen..they even had Gozanti transports carrying 4 TIEs to escort smaller ships.. When that proved ineffective they fielded a dedicated antifighter ship..the Lanzer class frigate (wich is canon BTW.. aparently the first order is still using them)
@@paulrasmussen8953 yes.. if you can use a 65m transport to carry 4 fighters arround.. Also there was another CR90 carrier variant.. in the old SEGA 32X star wars game you took off from a CR90 wich had a hangar in where the docking rings are...
And, with EXTENSIVE customization, the bow assembly could be reconfigured into a hangar deck sufficient to hold 12 Xwings of Wraith Squadron, in addition to the 4 TIEs docked to the outer hull.
Leia: The Devastator's nearly onto us, how many boosters are you using? Captain Antilles: All of them, your Highness. Leia: I... told you to use more than that...
Could you do the *ZD-9300 Correllian-class Star Destroyer.* I came across it while looking up the CR-90 (so I could make whimsical comments) but can't find any concrete stats on it. Guns, layout, speed (slightly slower than the Millennium Falcon apparently) and effectiveness. Was it better than the standard ISD, or ISD Mark 2? Was it Starfighter bait? Or was it just a hotrod capital ship that was average in other respects?
Liam Kleronomos I’ve only ever seen small resin kits, metal gaming miniatures and the plastic fully painted model from the Armada game. Bandai never made one, however it’s possible their upcoming Star Destroyer could have one. I doubt it as it’s an Imperial II, and the Devastator was an Imperial I.
I never considered that increasing the burn of one half of the engines and decreasing the burn of the other half could greatly shorten a ships turn radius. Thanks Dan!
Could you do a breakdown (either normal or planetside) from the Battletech universe? That setting is underappreciated and needs more exposure for such a long running IP.
Might not be an answer to this, but I was just curious - is there info about what happened to Leia's ship after it was captured there at the beginning of ep 4?
I think the imps destroyed it in a staged asteroid accident and claimed all hands were lost Can't remember where I read that, probably a "legends" thing
Corellain engineer: How many engines do you want?
Corellain Boss: Yes
Corellian Boss: how many do we have?
@@marcosbravo9645 "Probably still not enough sir"
"Do we need that many?"
"Redundancy, sir."
"But nine of them, really?"
"They're also cheap."
"Approved."
Corellian engineer: "How many engines do you want?"
Corellian boss: "Most of them. Leave a few for the others."
"How many drives did you use?"
"All of them."
"I told you to use more than that!"
I like to think the Corellain engineer who designed the CR90 was looking at the blueprints and sneakily added four more engines.
"I think this ship needs more engines"
Blockade runner.... Need to deliver that moonshine..
Corellians are the Star Wars version of Kerbals. MOAR BOOSTERS!!! :D
Obviously the Kerbal approach works, since Corellian ships are considered some of the best built ones around!
"Captain! I'm giving it all she's got!"
"Then add more engines!"
This ship is really an underdog ship. That opening shot showing how little it is compared to the star destroyer has you rooting for it immediately
uh nope
Well rooting for it didn't help …
ironically... originally the Imperial destroyer was to be actually smaller than the rebel ship it was pursuing.. wich would match our classic definition of the term "destroyer" (a smaller , faster and well armed ship that trades mass and armour for speed while keeping a more than decent firepower to take on bigger ships).. there are arround the blueprints of the original star destroyer and you can see its much much smaller than the final.. George Lucas upscaled the destroyer (and probably downscalled the corvette some) because he wanted the audience to get clear in that opening shot the uneven war the rebellion was having against the Empire.. it shows in a single shot the desperate situation the alliance was and the might of the GE
@@sparrowlt Absolutely! So much is revealed to the audience with that one shot, and it immediately throws us into this universe. I can't think of a more effective approach to immerse the audience into your story.
It's an iconic ship
And the CR 90 was the very first ship of the Star Wars Universe too.
If I recall correctly, It was originally going to be the 'Hero Ship', with the Falcon's cockpit instead of the dual bucket head.
@@irradiatedslagheap7933 You do recall correctly. In the configuration you described, that ship was supposed to be the Millennium Falcon, but because it looked a bit too similar to the Eagle Transporters from Space: 1999 (not to mention the name of Falcon), the design had to be altered and repurposed as Princess Leia's consular ship. The design you described which was meant to be the Millennium Falcon got redesignated as a Corellian Gunship (a Legends ship now).
3:26 can we just press F for that poor GR-75 that smashed directly into the Devastator.
F
RIP
F
F
F
Corellia, single-handedly saving the drive manufacturing economy since 300BY
Interesting trivia note:
The design for this ship originally was at a different slightly smaller scale - with only two turrets dorsal and ventral - with a "Bomber Nose" cockpit up front. If that sounds familiar - it should. This ship WAS going to be the Millennium Falcon!
However - the way the landing gear pods (later removed) were laid out, plus the overall shape of the ship, made George Lucas realize that the design looked too much like the Eagle Transporter from Space 1999! So the famous forked disc/side slung cockpit version of the Millenium Falcon was designed late in production. And the former design of the Falcon was re-purposed as the Blockade Runner with added details, "grimblies" to indicate a larger ship scale and extra turrets and the hammerhead forward hull. Hey - why totally scrap the model? We're on a budget here! :D
" This ship WAS going to be the Millennium Falcon! " - you're thinking of the CEC DP20, which didn't make the cut into the movie, but was featured in legends.
@@PetersaberHDNo, the model that was seen in Star Wars as the blockade runner was the original model for the Millennium Falcon. When Lucas decided to change the model they made some changes to the existing model and used it in the opening scene. Remember there was no CGI back then. Everything in, the original version of, Star Wars are kit bashed scale models.
@@PetersaberHD I've looked it up and it appears the CEC DP20 was developed from the initial "Falcon" design but evolved in a slightly different direction. (Probably to more easily fit in with the established canon of the time (Legends). ) But it IS closer to the original design than the Blockade Runner.
Ironically.. Valerian and Laureline fans today bitterly acuse Lucas to have copied their ship the XB982 because both are saucer shaped.. wich i personally doubt preciselly because Lucas had allready changed the design to avoid copy accusations
@Deutschland Mexiko If you mean raster graphics on an actual CRT then sure call it CGI.
Captain Antillies: Your Highness, the transmission from the surface. What did they send us?
Princess Leia: Hope.
and yet if those gunners just blasted that escape pod.....
Second officer: Shouldn't we broadcast this to the other ships, in case we get caught?
Hell I could upload it to _scoundrel bay_ or _wikiDroid._
*Sigh*
The entire Scene was terrible. The Entire Sequence was terrible. The ending of the Battle of Scariff counters the information we received in Episode IV.
"It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships,
striking from a hidden base, have won their first
victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal
secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the
Death Star, an armored space station with enough
power to destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of
the stolen plans that can save her people and
restore freedom to the galaxy..."
The battle wasn't a victory. By my count, only 6 fighters, 3 blockade runners, and a ramship (which is never shown anywhere else) escape. Even more concerning, the Rebel fleet didn't try to Flee or Fight the Star Destroyer, they just sat there and got destroyed.
Next, the Imperial's "intercepted transmissions" which lead them to Tantive IV. All we see is Fan Service as Darth Vader wrecks Admiral Raddus' ship. Just to see Tantive IV escape. Okay, why is Tantive IV there? It's a consular ship with diplomatic immunity. Why would the captain risk being identified by imperial forces at a secure imperial facility which is under attack?
Just because a Captain says "we never received any transmissions" nor do those transmissions appear in the log/data banks... doesn't mean the ship never received them. It just means the Captain took measures to remove all traces of them from his ship. This is currently possible to do. So, it is what happened. This is why Darth Vader threw him away. He knew he lied.
If Disney wants to rewrite Star Wars History, they should have just said "nothing is canon". Making movies which contradict the OT is very bad.
While I am sorry about how you feel about Rogue One a Star Wars Story, I wish you had not used my comment as an excuse to vent you hatred.@@aralornwolf3140
@@ethenallen1388 ,
There was no hate.... Frustration yes.
Sorry about that.
This ship is my favorite sci-fi craft of all time, it captured my imagination as a kid and it has never let go ^_^
Same
I remember there was one mission in X-Wing where you had to fly cover for an unmanned Corvette, the Ram's Head.
She was fitted with a prototype shield generator that allowed her to be used to plow through a number of ISD bridge modules in their slipways at Kuat Drive Yards.
She decapitated at least an Imperial squadron, as far as I can recall.
Good times.
"A CEC ship will keep going until it hits something."
Considering that they regularly fly through asteroid fields, I feel like CEC ships don't keep going much.
CEC Pilot: "Oh shit, a pebbl-"
The ship that started it all, one of my favorite designs.
One of the best features of the CR-90's were how modular and easily altered they were. From stripping out 1/3 of the engines and the entire weapons array to be turned into a diplomatic luxury ship, or swapping out everything between the cockpit and engine block and replacing it with hangar space, these little buggers could be refitted to do just about anything, without the use of a dedicated shipyard. Some were even turned into 'fire ships', replacing the crew with remote controls and packing them to the gills with enough explosive to crack a Star Destroyer in half.
You know for many years we just called this this a Corellian Corvette if we wanted to be technical, and Rebel Blockade Runner if we didn't. And it always bugged me that it didn't have a number designation or anything. Well we finally have a designator for this, the first starship ever depicted in any star wars film
It's funny because no one seems to know how large the CR90s are. In Battlefront 1 and 2, they are as long as the Falcon, in rebels they are sometimes four times the length of 3.5 a-wings, but the same make of ship as Grievou' Invisible Hand is dwarfed by it lmao.
Rpg source books clearly state there 150m long.
And they were from the late 80's.
@@matthewburroughs9597 i know that, im just saying no one SEEMS to know, because the sizes always seem drastically different
The crashed CR90 on Jakku in Battlefront 1 in much bigger than the Falcon
@@unclearsector4266 it allways was 150m.. in Rebels they show very well at 150m wich is about 12 times the lengh of an X-Wing.. wookiepedia incorrectly listed them at 126m for a while but that was a confussion with the CR70..
The Gunship variant is 120m if I remember.
Anti -star fighter platform, able to screen other ships.
Man the RP G source books were good.
It's one of the most iconic ships
In Legends there were CR90's modified to carry TIEs in the forward cargo hold, the Wraiths captured one and modified it carry their X-Wings in the hold, with the TIEs moved to the escape pod launchers.
3:25 I feel bad for legitimate space truckers who use a GR-75. The insurance rates must be horrendous.
I thought the rebelion got this in some fire sail when a company was going under.
@@miles2378 *fire sale
Yeah, they did, when the company that manufactured them went bust. But thousands and thousands were sold to legitimate companies and space truckers before that happened.
The Corellian Corvette is my favorite starship in the Star Wars universe. It reminds me a bit of the Eagle Transporters from Space:1999. The original design was meant to be the Millennium Falcon, but because of the name, and its very similar appearance to the Eagles from S:1999, the ship was altered a bit, (more engines, and turning the conical cockpit section into a hammerhead cockpit section) and repurposed as Princess Leia's Tantive IV (Tan-tiv-ee....as pronounced in the Star Wars Radio Drama in 1980). The original unaltered design was repurposed as a (now Legends) starship known as the Corellian Gunship.
The CR-90 Corellian corvette, the most technically impressive ship to almost never win any fight it's in (at least in the films)
An iconic symbol of the rebellion! Keep up the great work dan! I gotta be honest I love seeing crashed CR-90s in the battlefront games
“The ship excelled as a fast attack vessel and blockade runner”
*runs away from Star Destroyer in a straight line*
I honestly love the look of the CR90. It's one of the more believable spaceship designs from Star Wars. Front cockpit module, middle living quarters, aft fuel tank module, and massive engines for quick delta-v adjustment. All it needs is a few RCS thrusters and I could easily see a ship of this design in Elite Dangerous or something.
One of my all time favourite ships in Star Wars the Nebulon-B being the other one. Thank you very much!
So it can essentially serve as an AA Frigate, providing a fleet AA Screen like the Fletcher class DDs in addition to a Starfighter CAP. A truly versatile Warship, indeed.
"IF THIS IS A COUNCILOR SHIP, WHERE IS THE AMBASSADOR?"
-Lord Vader
Consular*
Umm Dad,… I'm a registered member of the Alderanian Royal family. We, _,I mean I,_ did alright after you abandoned me.
I'm thinking of getting a restraining order after the way you treated mum though. So don't think you can tell me what to do.
Star Wars: A New Adopted Child
_the sounds of flushing in the distance_
_ambassador appears from around corner_
Forgive my tardiness, Lord Vader, taco night.
*(Sickening sounds of snapping neck-bones and a man being hurled into a bulkhead)*
I just light bulbed and realized that, "Alliance to Restore the Rebublic", could very well have the acronym of, "A.R.R." . And now my night has been made. ARR!!! Oh, that was way funnier playing over in my head. I need to sleep more.
The Corellain Corporation, INCOM and Mon Calamari Shipyards are the top 3 ship building groups that the Rebel Alliance used in their fight against the Empire and it didn't go to waste.
god i love that ship, sadly not a lot of games feature to command it. star wars started off with the cr 90, star citizen started off with the constellation andromeda, both do carry out their job verry well and attempt the same capabilidties, turrets, got room for a parasite fighter, super multi role ships. i love em
This was always my favourite star wars ship, overall. It's got just enough of everything.
Love the Rebels footage.
I had to rewatch 1:23-1:27 multiple times. Did a CR90 really just one shot a Gozanti Cruiser?
I know its not something that would be expected to happen.
From what I've seen, the Gozantis basically have paper armor and shields. They will die even to a few hits from standard military-grade laser cannons
Yup. And at the battle of Atollon you saw Nebulon-B's getting taken down by just a few TIE rounds. And when Hera attacked Lothal, a TIE Defender literally just pops apart when shot by an X-Wing rather than being blown to pieces. And when Hera went to Concord Dawn, other A-Wings are one shot by the Mando fighters while hers can somehow take at least 10 and still manage to hyperspace away. Pretty much all combat in Rebels made no sense.
@@joechace8214 the only ship destruction that made sense was at 1:48. The second TIE Bomber was able to hit the segment where both the reactor and shield generator are located. In a New Hope, the reactor of the Tantive IV is shut down before it can tear apart the ship, but that CR90 in the Battle of Attolon was not so lucky
@@joechace8214 I agree, it does not make sense. I did not activly watched the series, but some parts of it on RUclips. I remember one scene where Hera was flying an X-Wing and some Imperial Pilot was following her in a TIE Defender. They both fly in the direction of Thrawns flagship, and Thrawn gives the order to open fire. Then, both fighters are hit by the really heavy Turbolasers positioned at the side of an Imperial Star Destroyer. And they only loose their shields. Like WTF??? Those gun turrets on the ISD are like 50m in Diameter and belong to the heaviest and deadliest weapons ever put on a spaceship, and when they hit a fighter the fighter losses its shields but is undamaged? I lost it at that point. Its bullshit.
One of my favorite corvette designs in all of sci fi! An excellent anti-fighter vessel, with loads of speed and agility to keep it out of harm’s way. The massive engine cluster has always been a favorite aspect of the design for me, as well as how the secondary gun turrets doubled (at least in Legends) as high capacity armed escape pods.
Whoa that ship is mad 11 engines and laser cannons? Awesome 10/10.
What a beast.
Love this ship and it's line through history.
3:07 *Vader:* You come back here right now, young lady. When I catch you, you are so grounded.
There was a add-on for small carrier role in a board role playing game. It was called the far star..
There's only one problem I have with Rouge One and that is that in the first released movie of Star Wars Vader said that they traced the communication signal to her CR90. But overall, it was the best Disney Star Wars project.
The original model in ANH was apparently bigger than the Star Destroyer featured in the film. Plus it was originally going to be the Millennium Falcon, but was then changed due to its similarities to the Eagle from Space 1999.Also worth mentioning that in the Legends EU there were a few of these craft that had its mid section expanded to serve as a hangar bay for one squadron of A-Wings.
Bro- you remind me of the Imperial/Rebel officers in star wars games that would give the run-down on various craft. Absolutely awesome lol
I hope one day we will see content about my favorite but forgotten boi : the tartan cruiser.
Imperials.
Hmm, I just noticed something interesting about that SD model in the opener - the forward hangar (the smaller hangar) doesn't actually appear to be a large open-box style hangar that I always thought it would be. But it looks more like a mirrored array of launch-tubes, that have a down-(relative) facing slope to them.
It's fairly obvious at ~ 0:33 ish
I love the Light Freighter version of this ship, the XS-800 light freighter. Compared to the YT-1300, it carries more cargo, more passengers, and according to the source book, a much more comfortable ride.
What source book?
Me: So what is your ship most known for?
Salesman: Running away and getting captured!
Me: Give me 10 for my enemies!
In the book Star Wars Battlefront: Twilight Company we learn that these things can carry multiple drop ships (likely U wings) into battle. Don’t know how they’d manage to stick more than one in there though. Maybe they have them on some sort of rack?
In Rebels we see that a corvette can carry up to 3 fighters externally in the docking ports.. we also see shuttles docked to those so its fairly to asume it can carry at least 3 U-Wings.. if you mod 2 more ports in the front area of the main body where the escape pods are you can add 2 more easily
sparrowJLT true, but the book implies that the docking bay is at the bottom of the craft, like the docking bay on a cr 70 corvette.
@@rebelappliance771 well its a mess ... Rebels clearly had the fighters being externally carried in the docking rings with up to 3.. Resistance shows a CR90 from the Rebels era and it has the ventral bay
I have the original Star Wars ship blue print book. I remember the Tantive IV has a bunch of interesting things.
The entire top deck is a luxury detachable life boat. The 4 torrents on the top can be used as armed scape pods.
It had no fighter hangar.
You should get those books
I've seen art of a CR-90 modified as a carrier before and in an old Star wars rts from the 90's had a variant that removed the area for passengers and crew replacing it as a giant crane to deploy prefab buildings from orbit. A similar thing was done with a Lambda -class shuttle...
Galactic Battlegrounds? Force Commander?
@@PetersaberHD Which one has the the Rebel hero ship being the YT freighter with the center mounted cockpit? Because it's that one.
My favourite Star Wars ship.
Thanks. My all-time favourite Star Wars ship. And quite well timed as I just built the Lego Tantive IV.
the cr90 sure is a great ship, but I personally think that one could improve it's stopping power considerably with the addition of some enormous mass-driver cannons
According to this one guy, EC Henry's headcannon, that would be the CR110, a bigger but less maneuverable iteration of the Correllian Corvette line.
Good breakdown. Loads of useful information. Thanks for doing what you do.
Can you do a similar video for the 116meter Sphyrna/Hammerhead corvette for your next Star Wars vid?
Superb video. Always loved the look of this ship.
I would take the blue version of this craft.
“Can’t serve as a star fighter carrier”
Ah, you’ve never heard of the legends of the Night Caller. I thought not. It’s not a story that Disney would tell you.
The Night Caller was a CR90 that Wraith Squadron (then under the command of Wedge Antilles) commandeered from Warlord whatever-the-crap his name was. They later modified the ship to hold the ships four tie fighters externally, and the squadron complement of x wings, (11 at the time) in the forward launch bay.
One of my favorite design from star wars.
Oooh... makes me wonder when we'll get some Spacedocks on Mon Cal cruisers, (specifically hoping for the MC-75 Profundity)
Flawless as always!
As an anti fighter Corvette it would be brilliant for the Empire to use and would cover their greatest weakness - _snub fighter raids._
Imagine every ISD having a escort fleet of CR-90's in the anti Starfighter configuration, it wouldn't have cost the Empire much (since they wouldn't spring for Lancer frigates or DP-20's) and would have decimated the Rebel forces … until they worked out that they should only approach from behind. But in a furball CR-90'S and Ties could cover each other's six's.
Coming Soon, the CR-91, with tailgunner.
The empire used its larger TIE Fighter as anti-fighter screen..they even had Gozanti transports carrying 4 TIEs to escort smaller ships..
When that proved ineffective they fielded a dedicated antifighter ship..the Lanzer class frigate (wich is canon BTW.. aparently the first order is still using them)
The CR90 is probably one of my favorite SW ships and only 2nd to
The Rogue Shadow....
one of my most favorite ships in SW
THANK YOU for all your Star Wars videos!! :-)
Will you do another video about the CR92A Assassin Corvette that the Empire fielded in response to the blockade runners?
The coverette has been used as a pocket carrier. Hell Wraith Squdron manage to fix nearly a squadrons worth of fighters
that was a quite modified CR90 tough.. that thing was esentially a flying hangar
@@sparrowlt but still possible
@@paulrasmussen8953 yes.. if you can use a 65m transport to carry 4 fighters arround..
Also there was another CR90 carrier variant.. in the old SEGA 32X star wars game you took off from a CR90 wich had a hangar in where the docking rings are...
The first ship ever seen in Star Wars...
I'll admit, it's grown on me over the years.
I know it is legends only, but the Night Caller was refitted as a pocket carrier and at one stage carried a whole squadron worth of fighters with it
The whole adventure of the Night Caller was amazing, from the moment the Wraiths captured her through her 1 on 1 duel against an ISD.
@@VegetaLF7 she definitely was my favorite of the class
And, with EXTENSIVE customization, the bow assembly could be reconfigured into a hangar deck sufficient to hold 12 Xwings of Wraith Squadron, in addition to the 4 TIEs docked to the outer hull.
Great review.
100 crew - Hundreds of passengers.
8 escape pods.
So it's the Titanic in space then ?
I honestly thought you had already done this Icon star wars ship.
The Corellian Corvette is also able to hold 2-4 A-wings depending on the configuration.
The Tantive IV was Also at the Battle of Exegol where it was destroyed
Love you videos dude!!
Love the work spacedock does! could you do a episode on the space 1999 eagle?
Awesome, as usual.
Leia: The Devastator's nearly onto us, how many boosters are you using?
Captain Antilles: All of them, your Highness.
Leia: I... told you to use more than that...
Than*
@@Kuoted Always gets me... ALWAYS.
Rebel Fleet HR: We assigned you to a CR90 crew.
Rebel Recruit: I forgot my blaster, I'll be right back...
My favorite ship right next to the venator star destroyer. Still have the micromachine of it .
Favorite. ship. ever.
CR90 is the Toyota HiLux of Star Wars.
Could you do the *ZD-9300 Correllian-class Star Destroyer.*
I came across it while looking up the CR-90 (so I could make whimsical comments) but can't find any concrete stats on it. Guns, layout, speed (slightly slower than the Millennium Falcon apparently) and effectiveness.
Was it better than the standard ISD, or ISD Mark 2?
Was it Starfighter bait?
Or was it just a hotrod capital ship that was average in other respects?
I love the CR-90
It needs a centrally mounted ion cannon and a shitload of torpedoes or missiles, and it would make a decent capital ship killer.
I WANT FULL SHIP BREAKDOWNS ON HALO SHIPS LIKE THIS! THE SPIRIT DROPSHIP IS MY FAVORITE
Been here since halo phantom keep up the good work
The new LEGO model is an impressive representation of this ship. Now someone needs to make a decent plastic model of it.
Pretty sure Bandai made a really nice one.
Liam Kleronomos I’ve only ever seen small resin kits, metal gaming miniatures and the plastic fully painted model from the Armada game. Bandai never made one, however it’s possible their upcoming Star Destroyer could have one. I doubt it as it’s an Imperial II, and the Devastator was an Imperial I.
god its so beautiful
And I love your content!
I never considered that increasing the burn of one half of the engines and decreasing the burn of the other half could greatly shorten a ships turn radius. Thanks Dan!
It's called differential thrust.
What of the Hammerhead Corvette?
Can you do the Odyssey class from Star Trek Online :D
Can you do the ETA-5 from legends?
Make this the top comment, people!
More Legends ships on this channel would be cool.
Could you do a breakdown (either normal or planetside) from the Battletech universe? That setting is underappreciated and needs more exposure for such a long running IP.
They should of added torrents to the aft between the top and bottom engine rows even take out that center engine for the gunners and sensors
Might not be an answer to this, but I was just curious - is there info about what happened to Leia's ship after it was captured there at the beginning of ep 4?
I think the imps destroyed it in a staged asteroid accident and claimed all hands were lost
Can't remember where I read that, probably a "legends" thing
Didn't Captain Antilles have a specialized CR90? If so, any chance of a short episode on the ship?
Could you do the Subjugator class heavy cruiser next?
I feel like you could fit two more turbo laser turrets on either side of the bridge
Im pretty sure it's Tantavee IV not Tantv IV, unless something changed.
I think you’re technically correct, the best kind of correct.
I've always seen it written as tantive 4 or IV
@@SaberViper I meant it's pronounced with a long e sound at the end.
@@alexknj1 ah I missed what you were getting at initially.