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.

The Annihilator, former flagship of Grand General Cassio Tagge, was captured by pirates and renamed Liberty's Misrule.

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. Darth Vader's flagship saw action at the Battle of Hoth and the Escape from Cloud City before being destroyed at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY. 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 Emperor Palpatine's secret weapons programs. The Executor was a well known Executor-class Star Dreadnought.Īccording to the Rebel Alliance's intelligence agency, more than a dozen Super Star Destroyers were made, including the Executor itself, the Annihilator, the Arbitrator, the Eclipse, and the Ravager.

During its history, at least two prototypes were manufactured, including the Star Dreadnought Assault Prototype and the Star Dreadnought Command Prototype. By the time of the skirmish against the Third Fleet, Darth Vader had been pushing for the class. 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. ' Can you imagine what the twenty-two I've saved would add to the Chimaera's defenses? Or the Firedrake's, or the new Star Dreadnought class Lord Vader's been pushing for?' ―Grand Admiral Balanhai Savit, to Grand Admiral Thrawn However, it was relatively exposed, making it vulnerable to enemy attack.

The Executor-class's bridge was 285 meters wide and contained shield generators, briefing rooms, and escape pods. Vessels of the Executor-class also had at least one hangar bay and escape pods. A bridge deflector shield was also included as a layer of defense and maintained a complement of thousands of starships including TIE/ln space superiority starfighters, TIE/sa bombers, and TIE/IN interceptors. These starships were crewed by thousands, and were outfitted with a class 1 hyperdrive, a titanium-reinforced hull, over 5,000 turbolaser and ion cannon batteries, and concussion missile tubes. Vessels of the Executor-class Dreadnought line measured at 19,000 meters in length, and utilizing its thirteen Executor-50.x engines, could reach speeds of 100 kilometers per hour. A prototype Executor-class dreadnought under construction.

Executor class star destroyer model