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Class and appearance

The Battle of Endor during Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi featured three different models of Mon Calamari Cruiser: the MC80 Home One type, the MC80 Liberty type and a wingless variant of the Liberty type later identified as the MC80a Star Cruiser.^[11] Star Wars: X-Wing only includes one variant of Mon Calamari Star Cruiser, which is identified in the game's Tech Room as the MC80a. The appearance of the Independence and other Mon Calamari Star Cruisers in the opening cutscene and Tech Room changed between the DOS and Windows versions of X-Wing, with the latter release showing them as the Home One type. The in-game appearance of the Independence remained largely unchanged in the different versions of X-Wing,^[5] and the same model was used to depict the ship in Star Wars: TIE Fighter: Defender of the Empire.^[10]

Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance features both the Home One type and Liberty type cruisers but also identifies the Home One type, to which the Independence belongs, as the MC80a.^[4] The Independence is also identified as an MC80a in its entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia,^[3] which also uses this designation for Home One.^[12] The 2007 Saga Edition of Starships of the Galaxy formally established the Home One type and Liberty type as variants of the MC80 Star Cruiser^[13] and 2012's The Essential Guide to Warfare clarified that the MC80a correctly applies to the wingless variant of the Liberty type seen in Return of the Jedi.^[6][11] The 2015 roleplaying sourcebook Strongholds of Resistance explicitly identifies the Independence as Home One type.^[7] Images of the Home One model, which was originally designed for Return of the Jedi by Joe Johnston and Nilo Rodis-Jamero and built by Ease Owyeung, Ira Keeler, Bill Buttfield and Jeff Mann,^[14] were used to represent Independence in The Farlander Papers,^[8] X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide^[9] and Death Star II Limited.^[2][15]

The Independence's position as the Rebel flagship in the X-Wing series, and its depiction as a Home One type vessel, led to some confusion among fans as to whether it was the same ship as Home One,^[16][17] the Rebel flagship in Return of the Jedi.^[1] Both the Q&A section on StarWars.com and the "Ask the Master" article in Star Wars Insider 78 confirmed that the vessels were two different ships sharing the same design.^[18][15] Other sources to confirm that the two are different ships include the Star Wars Customizable Card Game: Death Star II Limited set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game, released in 2000,^[2][19] and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, which has separate entries for both ships. Both sources confirmed that the Independence served as the communications control ship during the Battle of Endor^[3][12] and its participation in the battle was depicted in X-Wing Alliance.^[4]

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