Mandator Class Star Destroyer
Star Destroyers are capital ships in the fictional Star Wars universe. The Imperial-class Star Destroyer is 'the signature vessel of the Imperial fleet' in numerous published works including film, television, novels, comics, and video games. Each can be deployed individually as both a forward operating base and as mobile weapon systems platform responsible for safeguarding multiple planets. The Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought, also known as the Mandator IV-class warship and the First Order Dreadnought, was a model of dreadnought used by the First Order during their conflict with the Resistance. It was two-and-a-half times the length of the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer. During the First Order–Resistance war, Captain.
30,400The Mandator II-class Star Dreadnought was the third most powerful vessel class in the galaxy, superseded only by the Executor-class and the two Death Stars (though most experts refer to the Death Stars as battle-stations and not as actual ships, making the Mandator II-class the second-most powerful vessel in the galaxy).HistoryDesigned and built jointly by Kuat Drive Yards and Mandal Hypernautics to protect the ship yards of Kuat and other Core worlds from the CIS, the first Mandator II was the pride and joy of the Kuat engineers who dubbed their prototype Pride of the Core. The vessel never saw action, since no Separatist commander wanted to encounter it. Seeing the intimidation value of the vessel, Grand Moff Tarkin ordered the creation of a second Mandator II to add to the Tarkin Doctrine's call of 'using the fear of force rather than use force itself'. This vessel, named Apocalypta, was Tarkin's temporary flagship until he abandoned it in favor of the Death Star I. Apocalypta was slowly upgraded again and again by Mandal Hypernautics. Their engineers added seven HDMD-77 heavy dual Mass Driver Cannons positioned strategically on the hull in such a way that as long as the enemy ship isn't astern, all seven guns could bear on it. The vessel usually had a crew of three hundred thousand, but most of its systems could be controlled by AI and a skeleton crew of seventy thousand could smoothly operate the vessel in battle.Sometime during the Galactic Civil War, Tyber Zann somehow blackmailed the chairman of Mandal Hypernautics and forced him to provide his Consortium with ships.
After Admiral Antidar Madakor destroyed Mandal Hypernautic's ship yards over Mandalore, the corporation was unable to produce ships for Zann and gave him Apocalypta as compensation, along with two Legacy-class 'Super' Star Destroyers named Leviathan and Gargantuan. Zann accepted the vessels, but later feared that possessing the vessels would make the Consortium a bigger target. A perfect opportunity to get rid of them presented itself when Madakor defected from the Empire and set up his own New Republic in the Seswenna Sector in the Outer Rim. Zann gave the ships to Madakor to aid in the defense of Eriadu; although Zann himself never participated, the vessels were crewed by Consortium soldiers who answered to Madakor and later swore allegiance to him. Apocalypta also held a surprise: she had thousands of Spaarti cloning cylinders and a stock of Phase-I Clone Trooper armor, as well as over a thousand GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) vehicles in top condition. Madakor added this new clone army to the 7th Sky Corp.
Super Star Destroyer
Following the battle and the merging with the Rebel Alliance, Apocalypta was renamed Pride of the Republic.Following the scrapping of Pride of the Core, Pride of the Republic is now the only Mandator II-class Star Dreadnought in active service.
A Star Destroyer is a type of warship characterised by its long and pointed, usually dagger-shaped, hull. In the narrowest sense, 'Star Destroyer' refers to ships filling a particular role, primarily ship-to-ship and space-to-ground combat with limited carrier and troop transport capacity, typically between one and three kilometres in length. In the broader sense, Star Destroyers include any vessel that utilises a dagger-like shape for the same purposes, from smaller frigates such as the troop transport to Star Battlecruisers, between three and eight kilometres in length, and larger Star Dreadnoughts or 'Super Star Destroyers' such as the command ship.The main purpose of this shape is so that firepower can be both delivered in powerful broadsides and focused beyond the front of the vessel, at the cost of having a less defended rear. Star Destroyers are mostly associated with the starfleets of the, although they are used throughout the Gigaquadrant.
Contents Cyrandia Star DestroyersThe Galactic Empire of Cyrannus has a wide variety of Star Destroyers in.Befitting for the galaxy most associated with the Star Destroyer design, some of the earliest known vessels of the type were from the, where the Phaedric Empire used them in their wars against the from the 46th to 24th millennia BNE. However, there is no sign of continuity between these and later ship classes. Cyrandia-type Star Destroyers are also present in parallel universes, such as the Aretenus-class of the.The modern Star Destroyers of Cyrannus trace their roots back to the, who used them from at least their war against the in 10640 BNE, and the closely related in the 6th millennium BNE. Later, the Capricorn-class was deployed by the.Apparently independently, the of the developed Star Destroyers some time prior to the formation of the in 10 BQF. After seeing their effectiveness in the of 0 BQF, the began work on new Star Destroyers, which led to the deployment of seven different classes based on the design, including the iconic and the first 'Super Star Destroyer' in the form of the Mandator-class Star Dreadnought. Shortly afterwards, introduced the Acclamator-class, the Orodreth-class, and the Assault Carrier.The beginning of the in 3 BNE saw the introduction of the first Star Battlecruisers, the, which were designed to be intermediate in size between Star Destroyers and Star Dreadnoughts.
In 1 BNE, the introduced the Basileus-class Star Destroyer in order to match the Republic's Venator-class. Both of the Republic's successors, the and, have continued the development of Star Destroyers, Battlecruisers and Dreadnoughts, with one of the most ubiquitous varieties being the Empire's Star Destroyers.
Following their lead, in 12 AQF Rambo Nation upgraded the Caradhras-class to the size of a medium Star Battlecruiser, and in 20 AQF deployed the Star Dreadnought.In, by the 13th century NE the Star Destroyer had evolved into the smaller Apollo-class used by the Republic, while the Empire had replaced them entirely.Plazithian Star DestroyersSeveral Star Destroyer lineages have their origin in the, although the connections between them are far more scarce than those of Cyrandia. Most of these came into existence over the course of the 28th century, but before the nations of the Milky Way came into contact with those of Cyrandia.The developed a variety of Star Destroyers remarkably similar to Cyrannian designs.
Strictly speaking, only came in two classes, the Ardent and Imperator, with the Dreadnaught, Immobilizer, and Terrorizer being smaller ships of similar design, and the Earthbound-class being a large Star Dreadnought. When the Jovar Empire into the and, both states only maintained one class of Star Destroyer each, the Allecto and Defender classes respectively. The Alliance also fielded the larger Reliance-class Star Cruiser and Tachyon-class Star Dreadnought, before both they and the Republic were destroyed in the.Grox Star Destroyers in battle against the DCP.The fields the Monitor-class Star Destroyer, which mainly functions as a transport or escort ship, while the Star-class Dreadnought possesses a front similarly pointed to that of a Star Destroyer but much thicker.Native to Milky Way's satellite, the used the Imperium-class capital ship, an elongated pyramid-shaped variant of the Star Destroyer concept, from the 2750s onwards. The same design is still used by.During the New Grox Wars, the was inspired by the largest vessels of the DCP and Girdo Empire to develop their own class of Super Star Destroyer.Seemingly by coincidence, the 's own destroyers, of the traditional role of fast, maneuverable long-endurance warships intended to escort larger vessels, have distinct dagger shapes like other civilisations' destroyers rather than the DSB's traditional bulbous designs.Other Star DestroyersThe earliest known Star Destroyer was the, created by the as part of the. It has been theorised that these inspired the development of Star Destroyers by later civilisations. The Vyronicia Fleet was later used by the in the between 2310 and 2324, before being passed on to the in the 2780s during the, and their successors the during the.In Mirus, one of the native powers there, would utilize their own Star Destroyers, based on designs by their and engineers. The Star Destroyers, would come to be a controversial note in Federation history, many viewing them as a sign of the Federation growing too powerful and too reliant on its military.
The Star Destroyer would become their strongest vessel, given the most cutting edge weapons the Federation had, and guided by an advanced Aurora-class AI unit on board to advise the captain and guide crew functions. Any criticisms were quieted after the first three Exalted-class Cruisers managed to blunt the assaults of many fearsome enemies of the Federation.Quotes“ There is only so much diplomacy can do. Some situations call for a giant Star Destroyer.”-, remarking on the New Republic's“ The Empire's might made manifest.”- Grand Mandator of the Gallery.