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Nebulon-B Frigate

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the designation of the Kuat Drive Yards EF76B Escort ship, it is a strangely-shaped ship that has a long, thin hull with its main decks hanging off the front end and the engines hanging off the rear. It measured 300 meters in length. They are slow, unwieldy ships, and were designed to carry a number of TIE Fighters as protection. Originally built for Imperial escort duty just after the Battle of Yavin, the Alliance was able to capture a number of them intact, and used these frigates as medical ships. They had a normal crew of 920, but could be operated with as little as 850. They were built at a cost of 194,000,000 credits, not quite a fifth the cost of an Imperial-class Star Destroyer. The Nebulon-B Frigate boasts the following shipboard systems

12 Borstel RH8 Laser Cannon Batteries
2 Phylon-Q7 Tractor Beam Projectors
Serridge SEAL Shielding System (rated at 160 SBD) or Delphus JC-671 Projectors
12 Taim and Bak XI7 Turbolaser Batteries
Plat Dromma Targetting Computer
Triple Tam Stardrive and Hyperdrive Motivator
Fabritech ANs 9.5w Wide Range Sensor System
2 Fighter Bays
- 1 X-wing or 1 A-wing Squadron
- 1 Y-wing Squadron

KDY also produced a modified version of the Nebulon-B frigate, aptly named the Nebulon-B2.