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The '''Defender program''' was a [[Starship/Legends|starship]] design project dating from the early [[Standard year/Legends|years]] of the [[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]], in which the nascent [[Republic Engineering Corporation]] shipbuilding conglomerate developed plans for a "pocket Star Destroyer", a starfighter carrier, and a new snubfighter.

Only the [[Defender starfighter|starfighter]] was developed rapidly, seeing some service in the years after Endor, but while apparently respected and capable, it never seems to have become commonplace; the two capital-ship designs were delayed by [[Grand Admiral/Legends|Grand Admiral]] [[Mitth'raw'nuruodo/Legends|Thrawn's]] campaigns and [[Operation Shadow Hand]], and would only enter service as part of the larger [[New Class Modernization Program]], in which they became the [[Nebula-class Star Destroyer|''Nebula''-class Star Destroyer]] and the [[Defender-class assault carrier|''Defender''-class assault carrier]], and lent their basic hull designs to the [[Endurance-class fleet carrier|''Endurance''-class fleet carrier]] and [[Majestic-class heavy cruiser|''Majestic''-class heavy cruiser]].

==Behind the scenes==
The Defender program was introduced in the ''[[Cracken's Threat Dossier]]'' RPG resource, where it was made the precursor of the later [[New Class Modernization Program|New Class]] project, and the source of two of the four basic capital ship hull forms of that larger project. The additional [[Defender starfighter|starfighter]] design had been created earlier for a RPG campaign, ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]''; in the Star Wars universe, it was said to have been adapted from an earlier design, and in reality, it was inspired by a late-production set in the [[Kenner Products|Kenner]] toy line.

==Sources==
*''[[Cracken's Threat Dossier]]''
*''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]''

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