Rebel Dream

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For other uses, see Tyrant.

The Rebel Dream was an Imperial II-class Star Destroyer^[1] of the New Republic Navy. It began its career in the Imperial Navy as the Tyrant.

History

Imperial service

"We're blind. We could be boarded by a Rebel ship at any minute."

―Captain Lennox after the Tyrant was hit by an ion cannon during the Battle of Hoth^[12]

and on the Tyrant at the — Captain Lennox and Lieutenant Cabbel on the *Tyrant* at the Battle of Hoth

Assigned to Darth Vader's Death Squadron, the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Tyrant was commanded by the capable Captain Xamuel Lennox, with Lieutenant Cabbel serving as executive officer.^[11]^[9]^[13]

In 1 BBY, the Tyrant was one of the ten Imperial Star Destroyers involved in the Battle of Turkana.^[4]

Eight months after the Battle of Yavin, the ship fought Warlord Nuso Esva's forces in the Poln system as part of Death Squadron.^[5]

During the Battle of Hoth, Tyrant attempted to intercept the first Rebel transports to flee from Hoth, but was disabled by several shots from the Rebels' planetary ion cannon. Lennox's warship was left to float through the system, and several more Rebel transports subsequently escaped.^[2]

The escaping the Tyrant, disabled by the — The *Quantum Storm* escaping the *Tyrant*, disabled by the planetary ion cannon

During the battle on the surface, Imperial troops captured Rebel General Crix Madine and sent him to the Tyrant. After the shuttle entered the Tyrant's docking bay, the Tyrant was hit by another blast from the planetary ion cannon. While overseeing the repair of systems disabled by the ion cannon, Rebel commandos boarded the ship and rescued Madine. The commandos escaped with General Madine on a Lambda-class shuttle, with the Tyrant unable to pursue the shuttle. Later, the shuttle brought General Madine to the Mon Calamari Cruiser Champion, which then prepared to jump to hyperspace. Lennox engaged the cruiser with the now functional Tyrant, and proceeded to launch TIE fighters in preparation for battle. Lennox hailed the Champion and said that if they handed over General Madine, he would call off his attack. The captain of the Champion refused and ordered the launch of his ship's fighters. Captain Lennox was unable to defeat the Champion, and the ship escaped with Madine.^[12]^[14]

In 4 ABY, Captain Lennox and the Tyrant participated in the Battle of Endor.^[6]

New Republic service

"Then please, join me for dinner tonight, in my stateroom aboard the Rebel Dream?"

―Minister of State Leia Organa Solo to Prince Isolder^[3]

Later, in the aftermath of the Bacta War, the New Republic captured the Tyrant from a weakly defended Imperial fueling outpost. Impressed by the symbolism of the Star Destroyer's former history serving with Vader's Death Squadron, Councilor Leia Organa renamed the ship the Rebel Dream and selected it as her personal flagship.^[7]^[15]

By 7 ABY, the Rebel Dream was serving as Minister of State Leia Organa Solo's consular ship,^[3] but was back in active duty to fight the Imperial Star Destroyer Peremptory at the Battle of Storinal. In this battle, Rebel Dream was recaptured by Imperial forces.^[7]

Yuuzhan Vong War

At the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the New Republic had recovered the Rebel Dream.^[16]

The Rebel Dream served under General Wedge Antilles at Borleias. The Rebel Dream's starfighters and support craft featured a white-and-dark-gray color scheme during the siege of Borleias. It later joined the fleet of the fledgling Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, where it participated in the defense of Mon Calamari.^[17]

Behind the scenes

"What a fantastic discovery! We had to look for ourselves to see that it was true. This is the first time anyone here has spotted this, Steve Sansweet included."

―Leland Chee^[18]

The picture of the Tyrant in the Star Wars Encyclopedia featured the inscription "We Break For Nobody," a nod to the movie Spaceballs — The picture of the *Tyrant* in the *Star Wars Encyclopedia* featured the inscription "We Break For Nobody," a nod to the movie *Spaceballs*

The 1998 reference book Star Wars Encyclopedia, written by Stephen J. Sansweet, contained a picture of the Tyrant which bore the inscription "We Break For Nobody" in High Galactic letters on its starboard side.^[19] When asked about this in the ninety-eighth issue of Star Wars Insider, which was released in December 2007, Leland Chee declared that no one at Lucasfilm had spotted it before, Sansweet included.^[18] He explained that many of the images used in the Star Wars Encyclopedia were reused from Decipher's Star Wars Customizable Card Game,^[18] though the words did not appear on the Tyrant card.^[20] Chee hypothesized that the inscription was added by someone at Decipher before the art was delivered to Lucasfilm, or that it was added by an art editor working on the reference book. He also stated that it was clearly a nod to the 1987 parody film Spaceballs, though the word "brake" was changed to "break," not knowing whether the spelling was intentional, or some sort of comment on working conditions. Chee assured that the inscription was not on the ILM model, as none of the Star Destroyer props from the original trilogy had any visible markings, and that it had not appeared in any other source.^[18]