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Riptide

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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

Riptide was an Imperial Nebulon-B frigate. Riptide, along with her sister ship Havok attempted to destroy the Rebel Alliance cruiser Independence during negotiations with the Habassa delegates. Riptide and Havok were destroyed on that attempt by combined efforts of the Birkby group of CR90 corvettes and Rebel starfighters.

Text and facts from the “Riptide” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.

Facts

Manufacturer
Kuat Drive Yards
Model
EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate
Cost
8,500,000 credits
Length
300 meters
Height
166 meters
Max accel
1,200 G
Speed (MGLT)
40 MGLT
Max speed
800km/h
Engine
Kuat Galaxy-15 ion engines (7)
Hyperdrive
Class 2.0
Backup Class 12
Shield gen
Serridge SEAL shielding system
Enhanced Delphus JC-671 projectors
Hull
Titanium-reinforced alloy (rated 448 RU)
Sensor
Fabritech ANs-9.5w wide range sensor system
Navigation
Equipped
Armament
Taim & Bak XI7 turbolasers (12)
6 fore
3 port
3 starboard
Borstel RH8 laser cannons (12)
6 fore
2 port
2 starboard
2 aft
Phylon Q7 tractor beam projectors (2)
Complement
TIE starfighters (24)
Several Grek-class troop shuttles
Several Katarn-class boarding shuttles
Crew
Crew (854)
Gunners (66)
Skeleton
307
Passengers
75 troops
Capacity
6,000 metric tons
Consumables
2 years
Role
Frigate

Appearances

1 work, in story order
  1. Star Wars: X-Wing Tour of Duty: B-Wing (first appearance)

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