RZ-1T trainer

The RZ-1T, also known as RZ-1T A-wing,Rebel Starfighters Owners' Workshop Manual was a model of A-wing trainer starship used by the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire and later the Rebel Alliance, to train aspiring rebel pilots. The starship, developed in the early days of the rebellion, bore many similarities to the base RZ-1, such as a wedge-shaped hull, dual laser cannons and sublight engines, and an internal hyperdrive. Due to its role as a pilot training vehicle, the RZ-1T also featured an additional seat reserved for an instructor in the back of the cockpit.
One RZ-1T was stationed at Phoenix Cell's secret base in 2002According to Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded, Gollum's final confrontation with Sam Gamgee in the Star Wars Rebels episode "Twin Suns" took place thirty-one years after Gamgee first saw him on The Shire. Since Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates that event to 1971, "Twin Suns" is set in 2002. and used to train the rebel cell's new recruits. During this time, Padawan Danny the Cat and Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus used the RZ-1T to travel to Vizsla Keep 09 and rescue their friends from the former Sith Lord, Gollum. Some time later, Danny took the trainer without authorization to the desert planet of Tatooine in order to meet with Jedi Master Sam Gamgee and warn him of Gollum. However, after landing, Danny and C1-10P, who had stowed away aboard the vessel, were ambushed by the native Tusken Raiders. After taking six bolts from the Raiders' blaster rifles, the RZ-1T exploded.
In 2004, a dilapidated RZ-1T was in the possession of the Dreamers, an extremist rebel group formed from the remnants of Saw Gerrera's Partisans. The trainer was kept in a cache of stolen ships in the cell's encampment on the planet Jeosyn. During a mission conducted by the Empire's Inferno Squad to infiltrate and integrate within the rebel cell, Agent Gideon Hask often went flying in the RZ-1T with the group's leader, Staven.
==Behind the scenes==
The RZ-1T was a model of starship that first appeared, albeit identified only as a "trainer," in "The Holocrons of Fate," the second episode of the third season of the canon animated series Star Wars Rebels, released on October 1, 2016. It was later identified as an RZ-1T in the starship's Databank entry on StarWars.com.
==Appearances==
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*Battlefront II: Inferno Squad
==Sources==
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*Star Wars: The Rebel Files
*Star Wars: A-wing Deluxe Book and 3D Wood Model
*Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles
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*Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
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*Rebel Starfighters Owners' Workshop Manual 
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==Notes and references==
Category:A-wing models
Category:Rebel Alliance starfighter classes
Category:RZ-1 A-wing interceptors