The bridge tower contained the main communications array and sensor array, located on the port and starboard sides, respectively. Troop quarters were located on the lower frontal section of the vessel, in front of the hangar areas. Įach ship of the class was crewed by over 700,000 personnel, and Eclipse II also carried a complement of Shadow Droid starfighters.
The hangars were located at the sides of the vessel, with the fore and aft launch bays closely spaced underneath this area, towards the middle of the ship.
Complement Īn Eclipse-class vessel carried 600 TIE/IN interceptors and 96 TIE Bombers, divided into 58 squadrons for ground assault, they carried 150,000 Imperial soldiers, 100 AT-ATs, and five prefabricated bases. The Eclipse-class was more mobile than the Death Star, being equipped with both an enhanced hyperdrive and fast sublight engines. In addition to its firepower, the Eclipse-class's hull armor and shields were so strong that it could ram enemy ships without hesitation. Additionally, these behemoths were armed with hundreds of heavy laser and turbolaser mountings. This included gravity well projectors and improved ion cannons, the former of which were the same types included on the Interdictor-class Star Destroyers. The class benefited from the most significant weaponry-improvements of the last few decades. According to Admiral Conan Antonio Motti in the Imperial Handbook: A Commander's Guide, the superlaser's intended use was to penetrate planetary shields as well as vaporize cities with a single blast. The massive superlaser was more widely used to destroy enemy capital ships and space stations during combat. The axial superlasers were capable of slashing through any planetary shield to crack open a planet's crust and sear entire continental landmasses. This superlaser was the pinnacle of Imperial destruction in their fleets.Īn Eclipse 's superlaser easily had the power to destroy other Super Star Destroyers, as the Annihilator found out when Tyber Zann seized the Eclipse 's incredible power above Kuat. The most deadly weapon carried by Eclipse-class ships was an axial superlaser, similar to but significantly less powerful than one of the component beams used in the Death Star's superlaser. Its size was large enough for it to be classified as a space station. Although technically dwarfed in length by both the Executor-class Star Dreadnought and the Vengeance-class dreadnought by 1.5 kilometers, the Eclipse-class nonetheless exceeded even the Executor-class in terms of overall mass and volume. The Eclipse-class vessels were among the largest dreadnought-scale ships/Super Star Destroyers ever to be fielded within Galactic history.
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