Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer
Executor-Class Star Dreadnought, The Annihilator
History of Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer
The Executor-class Star Dreadnought, also known as the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, Super-class Star Destroyer or simply Super Star Destroyer and Super Class, designed by Lira Wessex were some of the largest and most powerful Imperial starships ever created. Along with other classes of massive Imperial capital ships, they were also referred to as Super Star Destroyers, although they were technically classified as Star Dreadnoughts. The most distinguished Super Star Destroyer was the Executor, flagship of the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader. The Executor-class Star Dreadnought, also known as the Super-class Star Destroyer, was manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards during the reign of the Galactic Empire. By the time of the skirmish against the Third Fleet, Darth Vader had been pushing for the class. During its history, at least two prototypes were manufactured, including the Star Dreadnought Assault Prototype and the Star Dreadnought Command Prototype. The Annihilator served as Grand General Cassio Tagge's flagship before he prepared to move his command to an under-construction Executor-class, known simply as the Executor. Upon seeing the ship, Vader's personal assassin droids, 0-0-0 and BT-1, debated whether the massive vessel was "trashy," with 0-0-0 admitting he would like an Executor-class of his own. After Tagge's failings allowed the rogue scientist Cylo to nearly commandeer the Executor, Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine gave command of the vessel and Tagge's fleet to Vader, who executed Tagge shortly after. According to the Rebel Alliance's intelligence agency, more than a dozen Super Star Destroyers were made, including the Executor itself, its sister ship the Lusankya, the Annihilator, the Arbitrator, the Eclipse, and the Ravager. However, the true number remained a subject of debate, as Alliance analysts endeavored to make sense of Imperial propaganda and see through the black budgets designed to hide the scope of the Palpatine's secret weapons programs. As Vader's flagship, the Executor saw action at the Battle of Mako-Ta in 1 ABY, the Battle of Hoth and the Escape from Cloud City in 3 ABY, and the battle over Jekara during the War of the Bounty Hunters. It was destroyed at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY. In the months after the events of Endor, the New Republic, the successor government to the Alliance, destroyed five Super Star Destroyers, including the Arbitrator which accidentally jumped into a black hole due to erroneous hyperspace coordinates, and captured three more. The Annihilator, former flagship of Grand General Cassio Tagge, was captured by pirates and renamed Liberty's Misrule. The only known Super Star Destroyer, and so the only known Executor-class, to remain in Imperial hands was Grand Admiral Rae Sloane's flagship Ravager, which also served as the base for Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax. In 5 ABY, Sloane discovered evidence that the Emperor's command ship, the Super Star Destroyer Eclipse, had not been destroyed but had vanished from the official records. Following Sloane's disappearance during the attack on Chandrila, Fleet Admiral Rax formally took command of the Ravager as Counselor to the Empire. The Ravager then rendezvoused with a large Imperial armada on the barren planet of Jakku for a showdown with the New Republic. The Ravager was lost in the battle when one of the New Republic's Starhawk-class battleships pulled it into Jakku's gravity well with its ultra-powerful tractor beam, causing the massive capital ship to crash in the sands of the desert planet.
Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer is also known as; Executor-Class Star Dreadnought, The Annihilator
