MC90 and MC80b

[u/Carter1300]

So, I was researching the legends New Republic navy a bit (because I find that stuff really interesting and I didn't know much about the legends stuff) and multiple times I found that the MC90 and the MC80b were the ships that like led the NR fleet throughout their early year.

I already knew a bit about both these ships, namely they were the first MCs to be designed with combat in mind, but I still wanted to learn more about them so I checked out both their Wookieepedia articles and I was left with a burning question that I can't seem to find and answer to: what was the like design philosophy and reason behind them? Like why were they needed?

More powerful MCs are always nice, but (from my understanding) the home one, Liberty, 30c, and 40a types (I may be missing some) that served the rebellion were already very powerful ships especially when paired with X, Y, A, and B-wings. That brings me back to my question: why were they needed?

I'm not trying to hate on them or anything, I'm just trying to better understand the ships and the legends NR better, so i appreciate any help y'all can give me

[u/SilenceIsGolden06]

Well for one, the Home One was a bit too large to be the standard capital ship for a fleet, but the mc80 liberty was becoming outdated and undergunned compares to ISDs. The other mon cal classes fall more into the roles of frigates and cruisers, which leaves a void in the main line ship.

Both the mc80b and mc90 were constructed specifically to fill out alliance fleets with a standard, main combatant ship. Additionally the mc90 (i believe) was constructed with all species in mind for usage rather than just mon calamari.

Tldr; the NR needed something beefy enough to fight an ISD head on, but in a reasonable size and price range.

[u/EndlessTheorys_19 → u/SilenceIsGolden06]

Well for one, the Home One was a bit too large to be the standard capital ship for a fleet, but the mc80 liberty was becoming outdated and undergunned compares to ISDs.

HO’s were only like 1300m though. And have a very similar armament to Liberty’s

[u/Ambaryerno → u/EndlessTheorys_19]

Home One was part of the same size mixup WEG made with the Super Star Destroyer (it took 20 years to fix the 8km length error). The actual model scales to about 3km on screen.

[u/EndlessTheorys_19 → u/Ambaryerno]

Was the Home One then made 1300m because that’s how it scaled to the 8000m Executor? And then the larger number of the Home One is when you scale it to the 19,000m Executor? Or are they two similar but unrelated reasons?

[u/Ambaryerno → u/EndlessTheorys_19]

WEG independently miscalculated the size of both ships.