Pride of Corellia

The Pride of Corellia was a Galactic Alliance Defense Fleet YZ-2500 heavy transport that served during the Sith–Imperial War against the Fel Empire. In 130 ABY, Admiral Nict commanded the transport during the Battle of Caamas, which saw the Alliance's surrender. Nict subsequently took up the invitation of Alliance Admiral Gar Stazi to refuse the orders to stand down, and the Pride of Corellia formed up on the position of Stazi's flagship. However, while the latter admiral was sending to the Pride of Corellia a set of hyperspace jump coordinates for them to use to escape, the Imperial warships opened fire on Stazi's force, destroying Nict's vessel.

Description

The Pride of Corellia^[2] was a YZ-2500 heavy transport manufactured by the Corellian Engineering Corporation.^[1] Sharing a name with^[2] the planet Corellia,^[4] it was equipped with three sublight engines and a hyperdrive and was armed with^[2] a double medium turbolaser battery and two heavy laser cannons. The frigate-sized^[1] transport was also outfitted with a holotransceiver.^[2]

History

The Pride of Corellia was in service of the Defense Fleet of the Galactic Alliance during the Sith–Imperial War, fought between the Alliance and the Fel Empire.^[2] In 130 ABY,^[3] the Pride of Corellia, under the command of Admiral Nict, was among the Galactic Alliance starships fighting against Imperial forces in a battle at^[2] the planet^[4] Caamas. After the Alliance^[2] Rear Admiral^[5] Piers Petan negotiated their government's surrender to the Empire during the battle and ordered all Alliance ships to stand down, Admiral Gar Stazi of the Alliance Core Fleet—an old friend of Nict's—refused to comply with the order. He then invited any Alliance forces similarly disinclined to surrender to form up on the position of his flagship, the Indomitable, with the Pride of Corellia being one of the vessels to take up the offer.^[2]

Nict then established holographic communication with the bridge of the Indomitable, inquiring as to Stazi's plan of action. The defiant admiral instructed Nict to prepare their ship for a hyperspace jump as the former was sending to the Pride of Corellia a set of jump coordinates utilizing a minor hyperspace route. Meanwhile, however, Imperial Grand Admiral Morlish Veed, having learned of Stazi's refusal to surrender, ordered that Admiral Dru Valan command all Imperial vessels to destroy the Core Fleet so as to make an example of it. The Imperial ships opened heavy fire, and the Pride of Corellia was destroyed before the rest of the Alliance forces rallied around the Indomitable escaped to hyperspace. Seven years later, during a battle against a force commanded by Valan over the planet Dac, Stazi experienced a flashback to the events immediately leading up to and including the destruction of the Pride of Corellia.^[2]

Behind the scenes

The Pride of Corellia was introduced in a flashback scene in the twenty-first issue of Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Legacy comic-book series. The issue was written by John Ostrander, pencilled by Omar Francia,^[2] and published on March 12, 2008.^[6]

Appearances

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• Legacy (2006) 21 (First appearance) (In flashback(s))

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