These ships could not carry anyįighters, and their armament was reduced to 6 turbolasers (withĬomputer-assisted targeting) and 8 laser cannons. Modified to included an additional 80 medical personnel and 30 medicalĭroids (such as the 2-1B model). Tanks, 745 beds, and other hospital suites. Was sacrificed to make room for treatment facilities, 15 bacta The Rebels converted some of their Nebulon-B frigates into medical vessels, which served as mobile hospitals.

The Nebulon-B was a medical frigate yet still had significant assault and defense capabilities since as the Wookieepedia states, “The EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate was a 300-meter-long warship that was built by Kuat Drive Yards for use by the Imperial Navy, to protect convoys from Rebel Alliance star fighter actions.”īut looking at that same article on the Nebulon-B at the Wookieepedia seems to contradict itself under the “Variants” heading emphasis in bold is mine:.

They generally saw the assault as a hyperspace jump in, attack & destroy and hyperspace jump out endeavor.

The rebels believing that the assault on Death Star II would be a “milk run” so they brought the medical frigate to deal with limited casualties.

This thread on Rebel Scum theorizes many things such as: Why would the rebels bring a fairly defenseless medical frigate into battle like that? And is there any canonical discussion or allusion to the rationale behind the deployment of a medical frigate to a large scale battle like that? It’s something I never thought about before since seeing the film in the there in 1983, but here is a seemingly obvious question: So rewatched the final battle scene from Return of the Jedi last night and caught the line:

Ef76 nebulon b escort frigate