Starships and other vehicles in TLJ

I can only guess (of course) who these two guys are that you pointed out. From the posture I assume that you’re right that these the heavy gunner type because it seems they’re carrying longer weapons in front of them and definitely have a backpack style application on their back.

What I’m missing until today, besides that Lego mini figure, are the driver and pilots for all those vehicles we’ve seen. So from Lego we can assume they go with the tradition and use TIE Pilot uniforms and just make them white for the AT-M6 drivers.

Back in the days, we had 5 different ones. I wonder how much equivalents we get with the First Oder.



I also miss any Scout Trooper equivalent from the First Order so far!

 

So as some have expressed their positive feelings about TLJ elsewhere, let’s do some nitpicking also…

The type of bomber ship used in the battle above D’Qar seem really to be a big bang asset added to the Resistance’s resources.


But did everybody noticed that they just performed like sitting ducks when those TIEs came rushing in? And how painfully slow the remaining bomber was when literally crawling above that 1st Order dreadnaught before delivering it’s payload of what, a hundred proton bombs?


One bomber was enough to destroy a heavily armored and shielded Mandator IV-class Dreadnought with 7.67 km in length, which is almost have the size of a Super Star Destroyer.


I wonder how much havoc these bombers could unfold onto even larger space ships or stations, when numbering into a dozen.

And what do you guys think about the overall representations of ships and vehicles in TLJ? What was the vehicle or ship that impressed you the most?

 

Don’t get me wrong – I like the bombers design very much. It actually looks way more OT by design, as something that the Corellian Engineering Corp. would have put out – but nothing really ‘new’ in a arsenal. The inside looked a bit like from a good old Corellian ‘Blockade Runner’ CR95 Corvette by design.

Actually I’ve to wait for Xmas to get hold of that book, it’s no option to get it before by myself. So I have to rely on you guys for solid information until then. So is there any hint on the production company of that ship, or even a more precise naming then just ‘Resistance Bomber’?

Talking about the old Blockade Runner brings me to another point: I had the feeling that the two capital ships accompanying the Mon Cal Cruiser Raddus were the modern variants of a Nebulon-B frigate and the equivalent of a CR95 Corvette, but with 4 extensions on the main body. But I was so distracted by the story that I’m not sure I spotted that correctly.

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Begging your pardon guys for being such an ignorant noob, as the interweb has all the answers I sought - even on the German SW side…


Resistance Bombers
MG-100 StarFortress
Manufacturer: Slayn & Korpil
Payload: 1048 Proton bombs


Resistance Fleet Capital Ships

Corvette ‘Ninka’
Free Virgillia-class Bunkerbuster
Manufacturer: Corellian Eng. Corp.
Length 316 m


Frigate ‘Anodyne’
Nebulon-C Frigate
Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards
Length 549 m


Freighter ‘Vigil’


see:
https://jedi-bibliothek.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/TLJ-VD-22.jpg

https://jedi-bibliothek.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/TLJ-ICS-10.jpg

https://jedi-bibliothek.de/2017/12/vorschauseiten-zur-the-last-jedi-literatur-von-dk/

 

That is a really interesting question indeed!

Of course it absolutely depends were they want to take the story. From what I understood so far, the ‘Supremacy’ was something like the mobile capital of the First Order including Shipyards and vehicle workshops. But that thing was trashed by Holdo with the Raddus, so I would like to know how the infrastructure of the 1st Order will look like in the next movie.

The time element will have the biggest impact on what types of ships and vehicle types that could be used by both sides. Would it take place 3, 5 or even more years into the future, it will generate the option the the Mon Calamaris or other manufactures put out new capital ships for the Resistance.

With Leia’s call for support to all her Outer Rim contacts, I hope that some will respond, bringing their hardware with them. Also, those wartime profiteers seen on Canto Bight will try to make a bug by selling vessels from the Corellian Engineering Corporation, Kuat Drive Yards, Rendili StarDrive, Incom, etc. to the Resistance if they have the money.

I hope that Rear Admiral Dameron will have a full strike fleet under his command, including old and new capital ships and fighters. And please, not just X-wings and A-wings.

Same on the side of the 1st Order: Kylos TIE silencer is a prototype model that after field testing, Sienar-Jaemus Fleet Systems is planning to mass produce and deliver it to the 1st Order for front line duty, based on their request of a successor fighter for the late TIE Defender, as the 1st Order as same as Thrawn back then, have realized the potential of such a space superior fighter.


I can also think of a sleek Entrepreneur, throwing his hat into the ring in remembrance of Han & Leia. Maybe that smooth talker could raise a fleet of Pirates, Smugglers and Cloud Cars. In that same context, remember that Maz Kanata is convinced that this Darkness and the 1st Order needs to be fought. So hopefully she brings also her share to the table. Which could make for all Kinds of old and new ships from the fringe of the galaxy.

So maybe we get the 1st Order TIE Bombers from the concept art for Crait.

And also, I’m a fan of walkers, so maybe those modified AT-ST’s with their new gyroscopic system and advanced armor plating show up again.


Talking about walkers: As we were now introduced to the AT-HH (All Terrain Heavy Haulers), pulling the siege cannon foreward with a multitude of crab-like legs, we still need to see the AT-PD (All Terrain Patrol Droid) and AT-HS (All Terrain Heavy Scout).


So I hope, with this big potential, we will see a lot of new and old vehicles. A man can dream, a man can dream…

 

When watching that Lego model, I’m glad they had this cutting room floor thing ongoing.

I wonder what/if the FO will salvage stuff from the demolished ‘Supremacy‘. Will they retrieve vehicles and other stuff from the debris? Might be worth an expedition reconsidering the pure size of that thing.