De acordo com a novelização do TFA por Alan Dean Foster, é muito menor que a frota Rebelde.
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Os X-Wings em Starkiller eram basicamente a maior parte de sua força de combate
Leia’s warm voice filled his ears, but the message she delivered was an unexpected one. “Good—now retreat immediately! The planet could be unstable. Get out of there now.”
Even with the relay in place, it took a moment for the message to be received. Poe didn’t hesitate to reply. “If we retreat, we leave our friends behind!”
Having anticipated Poe’s response, Leia was ready with her own. “Poe, outside of those of us here, your group is all that remains of the Resistance that’s capable of putting up a fight. If you stay to find them, we lose you all.” -
Podemos ver algumas dúzias de X-Wings atacando Starkiller, no topo (só estamos cientes de 3 esquadrões, e na UE, normalmente 12 X-Wings cada)
“Red squad, blue squad—follow my lead.” At his touch, their revised vector entered the flight computer of every ship in every squadron, and the X-wings promptly adjusted as a single unit. {{ and Poe himself is Black Leader, so may be there's a 3rd black squad }}
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Banco de dados de Star Wars explica metade do motivo pelo qual a frota é tão pequena:
... The credit-strapped Resistance relies on X-wings donated or lent by sympathetic New Republic senators and local security forces.
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A outra metade da explicação é que toda a frota da Rebelião foi para a Nova República (dado que a Rebelião tornou-se a Nova República), após o que, de acordo com o Dicionário Visual, >, eles prontamente passaram o ato de desmilitarização para que eles não parecessem tão ameaçadores quanto o Império.
Quando a Resistência começou, eles não levaram os restos daquela frota da República, eles ficaram lá (e a maioria foi eliminada por Starkiller com o sistema de Hosnian):
Expanding outward from the explosion, a tremendous burst of heat tore through the Hosnian system’s other worlds, searing their surfaces clean of life and incidentally obliterating all settlements, installations, and outposts, as well as the hundreds of ships belonging to the Republic fleet.