I hate to ask, but is there any chance of... Damnit, I forget the mark, it was either the MC-80a or the MC-75. The Mon Cal cruiser from the X-Wing series with one lateral wing mounting a torpedo launcher. z3r0x included it in haphazard mod as a small beasty that was a kind of greenish blue. I'm just rather fond of the one-winged design... Which has everything to do with the missiles it packed.
Just one wing? I've never heard of it, although I can tell you that the MC75 is purely fanon. The ship in
X-wing and later was the "
MC80a," which they used for the
Home One-type, albeit grossly undersized (ironically, some of
the cutscenes appear to size it properly). I don't believe it ever had torpedoes.
Actualy, i'v never heard of the mc-120 before i saw it in your mod, I asume its your own creation for balanceing purposeses?
Just the classification - it's the same class as the
Home One and what official sources call "MC80... but no, not
that MC80" or something to that effect. Quite frankly, the canonical information to date on the Mon Calamari is a mess of contradictions, so I chose to deviate in order to have it make more sense.
MC numbers can either be ship classes, or, as Saxton points out, something descriptive of relative tonnage or power. Canonically, it can be neither (hence contradiction). If it is a ship class, it must be unique, yet MC80 is used to describe a number of clearly different ships. If it is tonnage or power, all ships with the same number must be relatively the same, yet the
Home One clearly isn't the same as
Liberty,
Reef Home,
Naritus, or
Mon Remonda.
In order to fix the first problem, I use standard naming classifications in conjunction with the MC values. So there's no ambiguity whether you're talking about the
Liberty-class MC80 or the
Reef Home-class MC80. For the second problem, well,
Home One's stats in WEG and XW are clearly wrong; it's not 1200 meters long and its armament contradicts the RotJ novelization, which states that it carried the heaviest weaponry in the fleet (in other words,
not 29 turbolasers, because the other MC ships had 48). It's certainly reasonable that, because of how misrepresented it is, its designation is wrong as well. So I use MC120 to describe it.
Because the letter designations that are sometimes seen after the MC number have been used haphazardly (unable to even agree on whether they are capitalized or not), I've thrown them all out and instead used them to describe the upgrade level of a ship. So a typical branch looks like this:
- Liberty-class MC80 Star Cruiser
- Liberty-class MC80a Star Cruiser
- Liberty-class MC80b Star Cruiser
- Liberty-class MC80c Star Cruiser
I think this is simply a case of strict canon being slow to catch up to empirical evidence and hopefully within a few years, we will see a retcon to properly describe the MC line (or at least
Home One's length). But just remember, you played it here first
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