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This is likely due to the immense cost involved in purchasing and equipping one. The New Republic has so far avoided purchasing any of the massive battlecruisers both because of the enormous expense involved and the possible outcry that would be caused by the use of a craft named after so hated a historical figure as the late Grand Moff Tarkin and thus far no other government has commissioned one to be built either. This is all speculation however, as there has never been any proof that any such station was ever built. This mobile battlestation, if it ever existed, was apparently named the Tarkin as well making it the "Tarkin-I Class Star Dreadnought". There is a persistent rumor that another reason the massive ships were designated the Tarkin-II has something to do with a Palpatine-Era Shadow Project involving a severely cut-down version of the Death Star's Superlaser mated to the aft section of an Executor-Class Command Ship. This is because the government which contracted with Kuat Drive Yards for the warship's construction delivered plans and work orders for the inclusion of the Gravshock Bombard during the initial construction phases of the Tarkin and rather than simply rename it or issue a new construction contract for it, Kuat Drive Yards, with the consent of the purchasing government, the Keltarrin Protectorate, instead released it as the Tarkin-II Class Star Dreadnought. The Tarkin-II Class Star Dreadnought is most notable, aside from its unprecedented size and firepower, for the fact that there was no Tarkin-I Class Star Dreadnought.The Rebels had to flee before the Imperial truly did discover them.ĭespite its destruction the idea of a Star Destroyer equipped with a superlaser was reused with the prototype Imperial-class Star Destroyer Conqueror which was built two years after the Assassinator as the intended replacement for the destroyed Death Star I. The hulk of the now-crippled Assassinator was pounded by DaPlaDeS (Dantooine Planetary Defence System), which was a chain of turbolaser batteries stationed all over Dantooine, until it was a molten slag.ĭespite winning a major victory against the Empire the rebels on Dantooine had to evacuate soon after because an Imperial listening pod was found on the planet.
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However before a message could be sent the ship was hit by several ion rounds which knocked out all systems, the ship was a sitting duck.īlack Wing led the strike in the Assassinator, after a hard battle which cost the lives of several members of Black Wing and rebel ships the Assassinator was hit in the bridge and crippled, a design flaw of the ship was that it onl had one bridge, so if its command bridge was destroyed then it'd be knocked out. It's second mission was to go to Dantooine and see if reports of rebel activity on the planet were true. It succeeded in this when it destroyed Rebel Two during a space battle near an Imperial installation in The Maw. Most notably it carried a superlaser which was capable of destroying any Rebel ship or base it came across, it was designed to destroy Rebel planetary bases without the need for an invasion, saving Imperial lives it was also designed to destroy Rebel capital ships. The Conqueror was the first in a planned. The bow of the ship was cut out in such a manner that it was left with two several hundred metre long prongs, with the superlaser installed between them and halfway down the length of the vessel. The Assassinator-class Star Destroyer (also known as the Assassinator-class Star Dreadnaught or the Star Dreadnaught Assassinator) was a massive top-secret Star Destroyer prototype that was commissioned by the Empire in 1 BBY. The Conqueror was an experimental Imperial-class star destroyer outfitted with a Death Star like superlaser, albeit much smaller and far less powerful. Black 1 during the Strike on the Assassinator