- "Now they're making precision strikes. We lost all hands aboard the Huntsman and the Kalpana. I'm sure the 204th was involved in the raid on Beauchen."
- ―Caern Adan, to IT-O
The Kalpana was a starship that served in the New Republic's fleet during the Galactic Civil War. The entire crew of the vessel were lost during a number of attacks carried out by the Galactic Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing some time after the Battle of Endor[2] in 4 ABY.[3] Caern Adan, an officer in the New Republic Intelligence, listed the loss of the Kalpana's crew among a number of strikes carried out by the 204th since the Battle of Endor in a conversation with an IT-O Interrogation Unit several weeks after the latter battle.[2] The Kalpana shared its name with Skor Kalpana, who was Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic prior to Finis Valorum.[4]
Behind the scenes
The Kalpana was mentioned in the 2019 novel Alphabet Squadron, which was written by Alexander Freed.[2] The similarly named Supreme Chancellor Kalpana was first mentioned, indirectly, in the 1999 junior novel Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force, written by Dave Wolverton,[5] and identified in the 2002 reference book The New Essential Guide to Characters, written by Daniel Wallace.[6]
Appearances
- Alphabet Squadron (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ The events of Alphabet Squadron, which include the mention of the Kalpana, take place several months after the Battle of Endor, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates to 4 ABY. The mention must have therefore occurred around 4 ABY.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Alphabet Squadron
- ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- ↑ Tarkin
- ↑ Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force
- ↑ The Essential Guide to Characters