Model: Imperator I Class Star Destroyer

Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards

Designation: Capital Starship

Length: 1,600 meters

Crew: 37,085

Troops: 9,700

Cargo Capacity: 36,000 metric tons

Consumables: 6 years

Hyperdrive Multiplier: x2

Hyperdrive Backup: x8

Speed: 10 MGLT

Hull: 2,272 RU

Shields: 4,800 SBD

Weapons: 60 Turbolaser Batteries, 60 Ion Cannons and 10 Tractor Beam Projectors.

Onboard Craft: 72 TIE Series Fighters, 5 Alpha Class XG-1 Star Wings, 15 Delta Class Dx-9 or Dx-9s Transports, 12 AT Barges, 8 Lambda Class T-4a Shuttles, 1 Gamma Class Assault Shuttle and 1 TIE Shuttle Craft.

 

This vessel was designed by Lira Wessex, daughter of Walex Blissex who designed the Victory Class Star Destroyer. We look back to the various budgetary arguments with a certain sense of amusement. We remember when the bureaucrats of the former Old Republic government fought so hard against the Imperator Class project. Their arguments about cost and feasibility studies and the like ring hollow in the face of the reality of a single Star Destroyer.

Although the Victory Class Star Destroyer was powerful and deadly, the Imperator Class Star Destroyer is truly an awesome achievement. Capable of reducing whole civilisations to ruin, it carries a full complement of AT-AT and AT-ST walkers along with assault craft, a full stormtrooper division, and many squadrons of TIE fighters. Its 60 Turbolaser Batteries and 60 Ion Cannons make it the one of the most formidable weapons platform currently operating in galactic space.

Imperator I Class Star Destroyers are expensive to produce, but their value in maintaing order and control throughout the inhabited worlds is immense. Their planetary assault capabilities are sufficient to subdue most underdeveloped worlds without additional support. Larger, more advanced civilisations may require several Star Destroyers working together. And in open space, nothing can truly challenge the Star Destroyer, though the ugly Calamarian monstrosity, the MC80, can cause trouble for an Imperator Class Star Destroyer, and two such ships could perhaps defeat it.