Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. There are suggestions below for improving the article. This book was not only the first official source to fully depict and name the Y-85, but also confirmed that Imperial-class Star Destroyers only have hangars large enough for single-walker landing barges.Īn earlier nonfiction book, Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections, by David West Reynolds, had also portrayed a single-walker barge inside the hangars.Walker (Star Wars) was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. He later served as a consultant during the writing of the book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy. The author Curtis Saxton found it doubtful that such a large craft could fit inside the hangar of a Star Destroyer. It was stated that these barges were each capable of holding 4 AT-ATs or 8 AT-STs, as well as 1,000 troops. Some of these dropships were also used by the United Warlord Fleets in the attack on the Jedi Praxeum in 12 ABY.Įarly Expanded Universe sources claimed that an Imperial-class Star Destroyer carried 12 "landing barges" of unspecified class.
The Y-85 was credited with delivering walkers to the Hoth surface before the assault on Echo Base.
The Executor relied on these dropships to deploy its garrison bases when necessary. The Y-85 was only reluctantly used by Imperial forces because it was manufactured by the Incom Corporation, a company that also built the Rebel Alliance's X-wing starfighters. The launch bays of smaller vessels, like Star Destroyers, could only hold landers like the Theta-class AT-AT barge due to their smaller hangar apertures. The walker dropship could also be used to deploy AT-AT swimmers and TIE fighter boats straight into any body of water.īecause of the Y-85's size, it could only fit inside larger Imperial ships. The Y-85 was armed with two forward twin laser cannons for defense. Walkers were held by cranes, clamped along the sides, in battle-ready configuration, and could be quickly deployed via drop-down floor hatches. The Y-85 could accommodate four AT-ATs in addition to four AT-STs.
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