Grek-class troop shuttle

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The Grek-class troop shuttle was a class of troop transport shuttle named after the seventh letter of the Aurebesh script, Grek. The namesake was due to the shuttle physically resembling the character, rather than being the seventh starship in a series. EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigates,[1] used by both the Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic,[2] commonly carried the Grek-class.[1]

Behind the scenes

The Grek-class troop shuttle was mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in the forty-eighth issue of the Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon magazine series, published by De Agostini[1] around December 2, 2015.[3] In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the Grek-class troop shuttle was first mentioned in Pirates & Privateers, a 1997 supplement for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game authored by Timothy S. O'Brien and published by West End Games.[4]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 48 Secrets of Spaceflight: Aurebesh
  2. ↑ Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Incredible Cross-Sections
  3. ↑ The second issue of the De Agostini weekly magazine Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon was set to be published on January 14, 2015, according to Premium-Era-real De Agostini Publishing: Build the Millennium Falcon Magazine & Model by Chris Wyman on TheForce.net (January 8, 2015) (backup link archived on November 6, 2016). Therefore, Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 48 was published around December 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Pirates & Privateers