Model: Venator Class Star Destroyer

Manufacturer: Rothana Heavy Engineering / Kuat Drive Yards

Designation: Capital Starship

Length: 1,137 meters

Crew: 7,400

Troops: 2,000 (Minimum capacity)

Cargo Capacity: 10,00 metric tons (Minimum capacity)

Consumables: 1 year

Hyperdrive Multiplier: x1

Hyperdrive Backup: x8

Speed: 9 MGLT

Hull: 1,620 RU

Shields: 3,300 SBD

Weapons: 8 Heavy Turbolasers, 2 Medium Dual Turbolasers, 52 Laser Cannons, 4 Proton Torpedo Tubes (1 warhead each) and 6 Tractor Beam Projectors.

Onboard Craft: 420 TIE Series Fighters and 40 Light Transports(Maximum capacity).

 

Due to a millennium of corrupt and security neglecting politics, the governing element of the late Republic was attacked by its own citizens. This uprising forced the Republic to quickly transform itself into a formidable war machine. The Clone Wars had begun. By channeling enormous resources to the military, in the name of self-preservation, the Republic developed fleets of immense warships with cutting edge designs and advanced weaponry.

The Venator Class Star Destroyer was one of several wedge-ship designs to come out of the development think-tank led by engineer Lira Wessex, daughter of the Victory Star Destroyer designer Walex Blissex. At over a kilometer in length, it was big and powerful enough to tangle with the enemies of the Republic, but it was also quite fast. Its huge reactor-powered sublight engines afforded the Venator Class Star Destroyer a respectable speed, enabling it to chase down blockade runners and smaller combat vessels. Its surface was dotted with eight heavy turbolasers, two medium dual turbolaser cannons, 52 point-defense laser cannons, four proton torpedo tubes and six tractor beam projectors. In a creative move during the Clone Wars, some captains would use carried heavy artillery walkers to fire out of the ventral docking bay, supplementing the ship's considerable firepower without taxing its energy reserves.

But the Republic was destined to fall and it soon delivered control of the galactic civilization into the hands of Emperor Palatine and the New Order. All military and security forces were soon painlessly adopted by the Empire. The old Republic Starfleet, mainly composed of Venator, Victory, Acclamator and Dreadnaught Class Ships, was renamed and converted into the Imperial Starfleet. While the Venator Class Star Destroyer offered much for its developer to take pride in, the relentless taskmaster Lira Wessex, was not content. She had bigger plans in mind. She used her past successes to green-light a new warship; the Imperator Class Star Destroyer. Shortly after the end of the Clone Wars, the first test-bed models of this mighty warship were already functioning in classified shipyards accessible only the New Order's elite.

Though the Venator Class Star Destroyer is capable of making planetary landings, this versatile craft is used mostly as a spacebound fighting ship. The ship originally held an extremely strong Starfighter detachment consisting of 420 starfighters, but only a relatively small Ground Assault Detachment. The few remaining Venator Class Star Destroyers in Imperial service however, seldomly carry that many starfighters. They are instead left with about 1/4 to 1/2 of maximum starfighter capacity, leaving plenty of space for transporting extra cargo, ground forces, utility craft and landing barges.