Resistance navy The Resistance navy , also known as the Resistance fleet , was the naval branch of the Resistance ' s military forces during the cold war , and the subsequent war with the First Order . The Resistance navy was initially based on D ' Qar and saw action during the Battle of Takodana and the Evacuation of D ' Qar . Description . Officer ranks within the navy were Lieutenant , Captain , Major , Commander , Colonel , and Admiral . Ranking members of the Resistance navy could be identified by a badge with blue markings . Aiding the navy was the services of the Starfighter Corps . History . Cold war . A number of Resistance and former Rebellion naval officer s aided in the effort against the First Order due to the lack of action in the Senate . First Order – Resistance war . Battle of Starkiller Base . After the First Order destroyed the Hosnian system , the Resistance deployed its starfighters to Starkiller Base in order to destroy its thermal oscillator , while Han Solo , Chewbacca and Finn disabled the shields , allowing its destruction while the weapon homed in on D ' Qar . After Chewbacca detonated the bombs , the navy , after multiple runs at the base and Poe Dameron ' s decisive solo attack , managed to destroy the inner workings of the oscillator and return to base . Evacuation . Shortly after Starkiller Base was destroyed , the Resistance fleet began evacuating their base on D ' Qar . The escape was interrupted by the arrival of a First Order fleet consisting of three " Resurgent " - class Star Destroyers and one " Mandator " - class Star Dreadnaught " Fulminatrix " . The " Fulminatrix " bombarded the Resistance base but the rebels had already evacuated into space . To buy time for the Resistance transports to escape , Commander Poe Dameron attacked the dreadnought with his T - 70 X - wing fighter , eliminating its surface cannons and clearing the way for the Resistance ' s Cobalt Squadron to attack . Despite taking out the " Fulminatrix " , all bombers were lost but the rest of the fleet was able to escape through hyperspace . When the Resistance jumped out of hyperspace , they were quickly confronted by the First Order fleet , which was led by Supreme Leader Snoke ' s flagship , the " Mega " - class Star Dreadnought " Supremacy " . The First Order had managed to track them down through a new technology known as the hyperspace tracker . For the next eighteen hours , the three remaining Resistance ships including the MC85 Star Cruiser " Raddus " led the First Order on a chase . After General Organa was wounded during a First Order attack , Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo was placed in command of the Resistance fleet . The demoted Captain Dameron suggested that they come up with a strategy to attack the First Order fleet but she was intent on maintaining their current course of action . As the Resistance fleet ran out of fuel , Admiral Holdo revealed her plan to evacuate the " Raddus " using a fleet of thirty U - 55 orbital loadlifter s to travel to the planet Crait , which was home to a former Rebel Alliance base . However , the Resistance ' s plan was revealed to the First Order by the slicer DJ in exchange for his freedom and a large sum of money . As a result , the First Order attacked the fleeing Resistance ships , destroying all but six . Admiral Holdo stopped the First Order ' s assault by ramming the " Supremacy " with the " Raddus " . Holdo perished aboard the stricken " Raddus " with the resulting explosion seriously damaging the " Supremacy " and several Star Destroyers . Following the Battle of Crait , the surviving members of the Resistance escaped aboard the " Millennium Falcon " with the help of the last Jedi Rey and Chewbacca .