Star Wars: 10 Expanded Universe Starships You Didn't Know Were Canon Again

For fans of the EU, the Carrack-class cruiser will be one part infamy, one part awesome.

The ship made its first appearance in the novel, The Truce at Bakura, which saw an unlikely truce between the warring Rebellion and the Empire, with Luke Skywalker and his Imperial counterpart, Pter Thanas, teaming up to repel an invasion by the saurian Ssi-rruk.

The Carrack-class cruiser, Dominant, served as the flagship of the combined fleet, a role it was well suited to as, despite its small size, the Carrack-class is fast, approaching starfighter speeds, can take a lot of punishment and is heavily armed.

That firepower would bite the Rebels hard when Thanas, under orders, broke the truce and fired on the Rebel ships, destroying a type that, incidentally, has also made it back into canon, the Quasar fire-class seen in Rebels.

Perhaps appropriately it was first mentioned in the canon novel, Tarkin, a man you definitely don’t want to see get his has hands on such an effective design. It then goes on to make its full appearance in the novel Aftermath, set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.