the r61 support shuttle nicknamed the "space station" was produced before the galactic civil by rothana heavy engineering. produced as a patrol ship, it was modified to house a hyperdrive and extra weapons were mounted for the pilot. after the fall of the republic the r61 was used against imperial invasion. when the empire sent small invasion forces to the rest of coruscant. the r61 was used to take the fight to the tie pilots. during a raid on an imperial comunications building on the lower levels of coruscan, the acklays used a r61 to help local resistance, after they grabed the information the resistance distracted the remaining TIEs, leaving the acklays to flee the planet.