It is armed with almost 2,000 weapon emplacements for deep space combat and orbital bombardment.īased on the well-known Executor-class that the Balmorrans hoped to replace, the vessel’s hull is different than its sister ship, with the middle-front section removed. At a staggering nineteen kilometers long, it strikes fear into the hearts of those it fights against. Larger vessels, such as the Super Star Destroyer, dwarf even these giants.The Decimation-class Super Star Destroyer was designed by the Balmorran Engineering Corporation as a new age command vessel for the Imperial fleet, one that could be produced much cheaper than the cost-intensive Executor-class. Though, as is typical of the Empire, not even the Star Destroyer was enough to sate the Imperial hunger for displays of power. Its presence in a system mark matters of extreme Imperial import. In the days of the Empire, its bustling bridge would be staffed by the finest crewers in the Imperial Starfleet. Its belly hangar bay can launch TIE fighters, boarding craft, land assault units, hyperspace probes, or be used to hold captured craft. Turbolasers and tractor beam projectors dot its surface. The wedge-shaped Imperial Star Destroyer is a capital ship bristling with weapons emplacements. Another new feature included two parallel “claws” for grappling smaller starships placed in the ventral secondary docking bay. The prominent quad heavy turbolaser and heavy ion cannon turrets flanking the surface of the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer were also replaced with batteries of eight-barreled turbolasers or ions in unarmored barbette mountings. The Imperial II was also built with a heavily reinforced hull, stronger deflector shields, and greater firepower than the original Imperial I class. Imperial II-class Destroyer technical drawing.
Several differences existed between the Imperial I and Imperial II-class Star Destroyer, including the replacement of the tractor beam targeting array between the command tower’s sensor globes with a communications tower, as well as the removal of point defense weaponry. The first film ‘A New Hope’ (Episode IV from 1977) featured the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer that would be replaced by slightly different Imperial II-class Star Destroyer in Empire Strikes Back (Episode V from 1980).
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