I have only two more posts or so to go, and then this screenplay is finished. With that in mind, I thought now would be a good time to talk about the ships I've shown throughout this script.
The Consular-class cruiser Radiant VII is the exact same ship that shows up in the beginning of TPM.
I've always thought of it as the mirror image of SW's Tantive IV, so I felt it would work perfectly as the ship the Mandalorians board in the beginning of my story.
The Jehavey'ir-class assault ships are based off of the Jehavey'ir-type assault ship.
I just replaced "type" with "class" because I think "class" sounds better.
The Nyax is a Lictor-class dungeon ship like the one pictured in this image.
When I was younger, the little bit of info Dark Empire gave on the dungeon ships and their part in the Clone Wars/Great Jedi Purge helped feed my imagination on what the Purge was supposed to be like prior to the release of ROTS. As such, the dungeon ship eventually served as the genesis for the premise of this script.
The Jedi starfighter Siri rides around in is the same type of fighter the Jedi in the PT go flying around in, detachable hyperdrive ring and all.
The Light Hammer -- and all other dreadnaughts mentioned throughout the screenplay -- are Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers.
Suffice it to say, ever since I read the Thrawn Trilogy, I've wanted to incorporate dreadnaughts and every other ship/vehicle/weapon mentioned in the early EU as having been used during the Clone Wars into my PT rewrites.
The Twilight is a G9 Rigger freighter, the exact same ship Anakin is shown to pilot on occassion in The Clone Wars series.
Ever since I started on my endeavour to rewrite the PT, I wanted to reveal that what Owen said to Luke about Anakin being a navigator on a spice freighter wasn't actually a lie, and so I tried to include that seemy side of Anakin's past in his background on Tatooine. I never really did a good job incorporating the idea into my previous rewrite, but I feel I got it nailed down this time around.
The Xuthltan -- the ship commanded by the ill-fated Captain Wahr Blarh -- is a Xiytiar-class transport.
I wanted the Xuthltan to be as ungainly-looking as possible, so I went with this kind of ship. In hindsight, though, I regret giving such a lame ship a cool name like Xuthltan, especially since I got the name "Xulhltan" from a pretty good Cthulhu Mythos story.
Ah, well, I'll just reuse the name for something more deserving of it in the sequel. ;-)
This is the Kom'rk-class fighter the Death Watchmen use in their planetside raids/attacks.
The Venator-class star defender is based off of the Venator-class star destroyer from ROTS.
The reason I'm calling this type of ship a star defender rather than a destroyer is because, as a pre-Imperial class of ship, it wouldn't be given such an intimidating name. In my canon, the term "star destroyer" only came into use after the Republic transitioned into the far-less beneficient Empire, and as such it's only applied to wedge-shaped warships designed and built after the transition.
The shuttle Commander Piker flies to-and-from the volcanic moon inhabited by the warlike female aliens is a Theta-class shuttle.
In my canon, the TIE-fighters built before the rise of Palpatine had life support systems and hyperdrives. As such, they share the same full body of Darth Vader's later advanced TIE-fighter, only with straight, hexagonal panels instead of bent, octagonal panels.
While not the same type of ship, the medium-sized fighters of the warlike aliens Commander Piker and his team run up against in orbit above the volcanic moon are obviously inspired by Klingon Bird-of-Preys.
The Victor-class star destroyer is based off of the Victory-class star destroyer.
The reason why I'm calling it a Victor-class star destroyer instead of a Victory-class star destroyer is because I want the name of every star defender/destroyer class in my canon to end with "tor" (so Victor instead of Victory, Imperator instead of Imperial, etc.).
The T-Wing fighter is based off of the Z-95 Headhunter.
The reason why I'm not calling them Headhunters in my script is because the idea that the Headhunters are two-winged proto-X-Wings is another stupid retcon of the modern EU; Brian Daley's original description of the Headhunters painted a far different picture of their actual appearance. Therefore, out of respect for the original writer's original vision, I'm not applying the proto-X-Wing design to the Z-95 Headhunters.
Still, I like the proto-X-Wing look, and I still wanted to incorporate those kind of ships into my PT rewrite, so I just chose to call them T-Wings instead (they do look like capital "T"s, after all).