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  Star Destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most sources call the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, arguably the most famous of the group, either a cruiser or a battleship, with indication in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi among others that they were appropriate escorts for larger "Super Star Destroyers," the escort role traditionally being one filled by destroyers.
Venator-class Star Destroyers were deployed in a number of battles during the Clone Wars, most notably during the Battle of Coruscant when upwards of a thousand of the ships helped protect the capital.
Star Destroyers have featured prominently in many Star Wars computer games, primarily as targets to be destroyed by starfighters, as in the X-Wing computer game series.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Star_Destroyer   (11189 words)

  
 Imperial Death Squadron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Imperial Death Squadron was the elite special forces flagship unit of the Imperial Navy under the personal command of Darth Vader in the fictional Star Wars universe.
The Imperial-class Star Destroyers Accuser and Adjudicator served alongside Death Squadron, but it is unclear if they were officially assigned to the unit.
During the battle, at least two Star Destroyers of the unit were destroyed, and a number were captured.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Death_Squadron   (354 words)

  
 MASSASSI STAR WARS, TECHNOLOGY, TRACTOR BEAM PROJECTOR
Imperial Star Destroyers use their beams to capture fleeing enemy ships, while Rebels deply tractor beams to rescue pilots who have eject from their starfighters.
or large space stations, such as the Death Star, Tractor beams are often coupled to a main reactor to provide the device with steady steam of energy.
On the first Death Star, the tractor beam that captured the Millennium Falcon was coupled to the rector at seven seperate locations.
massassi.yavin4.com /sw/g_tracto.htm   (199 words)

  
 Imperial Starfleet - Star Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Naval recruits first attended the Imperial Academy to gain the basis of their higher education and military discipline, and then continued their education at the Imperial Naval College, where Academy graduates received specific training on naval operations, combat, and command functions.
While an Imperial-class Star Destroyer may be able to act as an attack line and its compliment of starfighters as a skirmish line, the decision to give commanders the option to field a heavy cruiser as a line unto itself was more political than tactical.
Imperial "Star Cruisers" were mentioned as being bigger than Star Destroyers in Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy.
starwars.wikicities.com /wiki/Imperial_Starfleet   (1951 words)

  
 STAR WARS: Novel References: Darksaber
The renegade Admiral Daala is believed dead, but with her lone remaining Star Destroyer she has limped back to the shelter of the tattered Empire, where she hopes one day to return to the fight for lost Imperial territory....
Stars clustered so closely together that even the flest regions of space were a symphony of stellar flares and hot ionised gas clumped in regions once considered uninhabitable.
His Star Destroyer was crippled, but he managed to escape with part of the fleet to a rendezvous point in the Core Systems just after he had seen the Death Star explode.
www.theforce.net /swtc/novels/d.html   (2505 words)

  
 Imperial Star Destroyers
ISDs form the very core of the Navy, and are famed for their great strength and power.
An Imperial Star Destroyer is a floating garrison.
Imperial regulations state that if a planetary garrison is needed, the Destroyer can deploy a prefabricated base, with ten AT-ATs, forty TIE fighters, ten AT-STs, and eight hundred troops.
www.btinternet.com /~kewsoft/webpage/imperialstardestroyers.htm   (601 words)

  
 STAR WARS: Star Destroyers
In all star destroyers seen to date the primary bay has two hangars on its foreward wall, though occasionally one of the hangars may be covered with its huge metal blast door or left inactive and unlit.
Imperial destroyers and the Executor advance rapidly upon the Death Star II as seen on the monitors in the base on the sanctuary moon.
A single star destroyer is known to have sufficient firepower to reduce the surface of a habitable planet to molten slag.
www.theforce.net /swtc/isd.html   (10520 words)

  
 MASSASSI STAR WARS, ARCHIVES, CAPITAL SHIPS AND FREIGHTERS, IMPERIAL STAR DESTROYER
An Imperial Star Destroyer, typically 1.6 kilometers in length, is equipped with 60 turbolasers emplacements and 60 ion cannon batteries.
In addition, quarters are provided for the vessel's always-ready planetary assault troops and for any Imperial VIPs or planetary government officials who the Emperor feels should spend time as "guests" aboard one of his massive and intimidating Imperial Star Destroyers.
Sector Group of 24 Imperial Star Destroyers is assigned for the patrolling of each sector of space.
massassi.yavin4.com /sw/ac_star.htm   (811 words)

  
 Empire Capital Ship Cards
Standard Imperial Dreadnaughts are basically the same as the original Old Republic Dreadnaughts except they now carry a hangar deck for a squadron of TIE fighters.
Imperial Heavy Transports such as Star Galleons, Airbus personnel transports, and Black Ice heavy cargo carriers are designed to combine the cargo space of a bulk freighter with the armament of a combat ship.
Imperial escort carriers were designed to provide a hyperspace capable platform for entire wings of Imperial fighters.
members.fortunecity.com /rebse/empcapship.htm   (725 words)

  
 Imperial-I class Star Destroyer
When Lira Wessex, the daughter of the designer of the Victory-class Star Destroyer proposed to the Empire to produce the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, bickering between the Imperial Navy's military strategists, the Imperial Military Oversight Commission and the Senate Budgetary Committee (since disbanded) almost destroyed the Empire.
The Imperial Navy relished the thought of the ISD and through a combination of bribes, political pressure and a rash mystery of crushed tracheas, it slowly brought others into line.
Star Destroyers are the Emperor's weapon which he uses to rule the Galaxy.
www.galacticempiredatabank.com /ISD.html   (1688 words)

  
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When designing cruisers, the archietect attemps to provide the carts's weaponry with the greatest possible "field of fire"--that is, to ensure that am amany weapons a possible can focus on and fire at a taget, no matter where it is in relation to the cruiser.
When engaging Star Destroyers, Rew Republic cruisers seek to attain a froont or broadside position to the rear of the Star Destroyers.
As the cruiser is the most powerful component in a fleet's arsenal, the fleet's battle tactics are designed to allow these vessels to most effectively project their firepower againt the enemy's cruisers.
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 Joran's Science Fiction Page.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Death Star was conceived by Grand Moff Tarkin and approved by the Emperor.
A Star Destroyer's sixty ion cannons are used to disable enemy ships in preparations for boarding.
As of the Battle of Yavin, a standard Star Destroyer maintained four squadrons of standard TIE/Ins, one squadron of TIE interceptors, and one squadron of TIE bombers.
members.fortunecity.com /jwqh/sw_veh.htm   (725 words)

  
 STAR WARS: Executor-class Star Dreadnoughts ("Super Star Destroyers")
Visual length scaling based on nearby star destroyers is consistent with a length of 11 miles, and inconsistent with a length of 5 miles.
The Imperial Navy probably has thousands or millions of admirals who are equal or superior to Piett in rank and ability; it would require a remarkable stroke of luck for him to be reassigned to exactly the command ship that served at Endor, if it were not the Executor.
In absolute terms the big guns may be of the same scale as a star destroyer's heaviest turrets: tens of metres long.
www.theforce.net /swtc/ssd.html   (11834 words)

  
 Nathanville Star Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The match of the Imperial star destroyer that also has the sub light speed of 60 MGLT and uses a class 1 Triluna 400MGS star drive and Hyperdrive.
The Mon Calamari master strategist Admiral Ackbar is responsible for all the Mon Calamari spaceships being at the disposal of the Rebel Alliance and the new republic.
The Mon Calamari Admiral’s flagship and of the Rebel Fleet the HOME ONE was the first capital starships to go into and out of hyperspace then followed by the rest of the fleet and if her shields went down she was protected from the weapons at every quarter.
groups.msn.com /NathanvilleStarWars/calamari.msnw   (528 words)

  
 Star Wars: Databank | Imperial Star Destroyer
While vessels of the Jedi order were met with feelings of pride and relief as they came soaring to solve galactic strife, the Imperial Star Destroyer's gargantuan size cleary inspires both awe and terror.
The Star Destroyer is recognized as the signature vessel of the Imperial fleet.
Though, as is typical of the Empire, not even the Star Destroyer was enough to sate the Imperial hunger for displays of power.
www.starwars.com /databank/starship/imperialstardestroyer   (178 words)

  
 Imperial Star Destroyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Designed to replace the aging Victory Class designs, the Imperial Class were created to be an improvement over the older, yet extremely successful design.
More than twice as large as the Victory Class Star Destroyers, the Imperial Class ships are the most prominant sign of Imperial strength in all the galaxy.
When forced to engage an enemy, the Imperial Star Destroyer's bristling turbolasers and ion cannons will ensure that not a trace of the enemy remains.
www.angelfire.com /games3/nakata/isd.html   (159 words)

  
 EyeOnStarWars.com/Trilogy ~ Vehicle Info - Star Destroyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The two newest classes of Star Destroyers, the Imperial class and the Super class, are found exclusively in the Imperial fleet.
The Super-class Star Destroyer, the newest model in the fleet, is eight kilometers long, dwarfing even the massive Imperial Star Destroyers.
Though the Super Star Destroyer is approximately five times as powerful as its smaller predecessor, the few currently in service are not primarily used as combat starships.
www.eyeonstarwars.com /trilogy/vehicle/star_destroyer.html   (250 words)

  
 esd
Even with his starfleet of thousands of Imperial Class Star Destroyers, and the monolithic Super Class Star Destroyers, the Emperor felt that the Imperial Navy lacked a certain amount of versatility to combat the rebels.
Consequently, the Empire Class Star Destroyer was commissioned.
Slightly larger than the older Imperial Class Star Destroyers, it was initiallyintended for development as an all-purpose heavy cruiser.
www.geocities.com /ioawdd/esd.html   (307 words)

  
 Jedi.Net :: View topic - Battle of Endor
The empire believed that the shields and the few Star destroyers would be enough and the fact that the laser was operational.
They used the stolen imperial shuttle and the 30 rebels to deactivate the shields due to being able to have surprise on their side.
However, the fact that the second Death Star was destroyed was a blow to Imperial morale, and caused an Imperial retreat.
forums.jedi.net /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=270275   (5748 words)

  
 Victory Star Destroyers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If it was on its own, the Destroyer would often try to keep the enemy in a planet’s gravity well, thus not allowing the enemy to jump into hyperspace.
As the ISD started to come more and more into the limelight, the Victory saw itself being decommissioned and sometimes even sold off to planetary defence forces, such as the Corporate Sector Authority which bought two hundred and fifty of the ships.
The Imperial Star Destroyers were not in plentiful supply, especially after Endor.
www.btinternet.com /~kewsoft/webpage/victorystardestroyers.htm   (516 words)

  
 EyeOnStarWars.com/Trilogy ~ Vehicle Info - Empire Class Star Destroyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Slightly larger than the older Imperial Class Star Destroyers, it was initially intended for development as an all-purpose heavy cruiser.
Since that time the ISD has become outdated and the Empire needed a more reliable and versatile ship to combat the New Republic.
Now the ESD serves as the standard capital ship of the Empire, however the older model Imperial and Victory Class are still used in some remote sectors.
www.eyeonstarwars.com /trilogy/vehicle/empire_destroyer.html   (312 words)

  
 Moopuna: Term Papers on Star Wars
battles fought with Imperial Star Destroyers and the Mon Calamari MC 80's.
the smaller Victory-class Star Destroyers were beginning to be fazed out.
Star, Imperial, MC, Mon, Calamari, ship, 90, class, Destroyers, Destroyer, the, hull, design, 90, shields, term papers
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 Star Wars and Indiana Jones Plot Formulas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
ESB: Chewbacca fires at the Imperial probe droid.
Millennium Falcon and X-Wing fire at the second death star's core.
9) After artifact is found, it destroys the villain(s) RLA: Nazis and Belloq die after opening the Ark TD: on the bridge hanging over the cliff, Indy recites some words, Mola Ram dies trying to catch one of the flaming Shankara stones LC: Donovan dies after drinking from the wrong Grail
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 Imperial Senate Archives
Should the Imperial Senate continue to fund the construction of Imperial Class Star Destroyers?
Are Imperial Star Destroyers a better design than the Rebel Mon Calamari Cruisers?
An argument in favor of the ISD, by ANON.
www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/halojones/286/arc_f.html   (190 words)

  
 impship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A Super Star Destroyer formally overseeing the subjugation of Sia, it has recently been recalled to Coruscant to account for the blockade's failure.
Recently liberated and now in Rebel hands at a secret location.
Vindicator: Assigned to the Sia blockade, it was destroyed by The Baleschee Irregulars, ably assisted by the Millennium Falcon.
pages.prodigy.net /ted.brengle/impship.html   (118 words)

  
 Keepers of Lists - Top 59 Demands Made By Worker's Unions On Imperial Star Destroyers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Keepers of Lists - Top 59 Demands Made By Worker's Unions On Imperial Star Destroyers
Covers on all exposed exhaust ports, or we're not going near that Death Star.
Fill out all designated paperwork before excecuting bridge staff.
www.keepersoflists.org /index.php?lid=844   (457 words)

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