The Real Purpose of the Imperial Class Star Destroyer 

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To my mind, you've missed out what is arguably the ISD's greatest virtue: it's an all-in-one expeditionary force. It carries a complement of nearly 10,000 Stromtroopers, can provide them with their own armour and air-support, and has the supplies to keep them in the field for up to two years if necessary. In the event of interdiction by enemy space-forces, it carries enough turbolasers to maintain orbital superiority against anything short of another capital-ship. In a fight like the Clone Wars, the Imperial-class' lack of focus would have been a defect, leaving it unable to deal with capital ships with a more tightly-defined role. In a fight like the Rebellion, where the enemy has few capital ships of their own, it's a logistical asset, allowing for the Imperial brass to send an Imperial-class to a trouble-spot, rather than spending the time and resources assembling, organising and equipping a taskforce to do the job of an Imperial-class.

Tarkin really cared about fear more than practical weaponry and ships.

The primary purpose and design of the Imperial Class Star Destroyer, was for it to be a mobile forward operating base. everything you needed to lock down and subjugate a star system all on it's own: Ships crew, navy troopers, storm troopers, imperial army including walkers, star fighters everything. An ISD is an entire Imperial Garrison, with engines and a hyperdrive.

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Palpatine and Tarkin went overboard with psychological warfare instead of practical designs. Thrawn would have run everything much better.

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ISD Design improvements TL:DR more point defense, _the bridge…the bridge…,_ surface sensors, remove trench runs, rear missile launchers for quick firepower, main long range gun is single ion cannon in ball mount on nose that can also do planetary bombardment, tractor beams on all arcs to stop fleeing ships and hold enemy ships in place for kill shot, and of course secondary shield emitters. Well first off, the obvious improvement for any design besides the obvious point defense and secondary bridge would be close in sensors, known as the *NEEDA* upgrade. Not only would they detect ships sticking to the hull, but little sabotage droids as well, that could be dropped by a passing civilian ship. And it would help the point defense guns target fighters skimming the surface. In that vane, getting rid of the trenches on the ship that provide cover to enemy fighters would be a massive boost to its anti fighter capabilities and survival, as well as optimising the firing arcs of the point defense guns. And that wouldn't increase power demands, it just requires landscaping - of course all those windows in the city scapes loose their views so the _real estate value of an ISD_ does decrease. For rear defense, against larger ships (corvettes, frigates) have a turbolaser battery or two, but mostly use missile and torpedo launchers, they wouldn't take from the reactor's limited resources and could dump a lot of ordinance in a short amount of time to hit hard and disable the enemy ship quick. Since it wouldn't be a common occurrence, the missile stocks wouldn't have to be huge (and spares for the heavy fighters could be kept there to be transferred later if needed). The missiles should mostly include ion warheads to disable the enemy ship so the ISD can manoeuvre to either main gun it or capture it, some concussion missiles, and some area anti fighter missiles. The rest of the rear defense should be laser cannons as fighters will try to swarm there and take torpedo shots, and maybe a few tractor beam emitters to hold small ships that try to flee by running to the rear, or to keep really maneuverable fighters still for a kill shot. Basically if a turbolaser heavy capital ship was allowed to get to the rear quarter, the captain of the ISD will be answering to the head of HR - _Lord Vader._ As for the heavy batteries on the front, replacing some with a massive ion cannon would be most suitable. They can have long range, as demonstrated by the Rebels on Hoth, and are most suitable for stopping a fleeing ship, as blowing away any ship that doesn't immediately respond can sometimes be counterproductive, especially from an investigative perspective, as it prevents boarding actions and taking prisoners. And besides, if the captain of the ISD is not sure, ion weaponry gives them the option to go no harm, no foul, afterwards. And as the battle of Scarif showed, disabling enemy ships can be very effective in pitched battle, it also eliminates the capacity for return fire and makes it a sitting duck for your other cannons and fighters. For the mounting of the ion cannon, a single cannon in a ball turret on the point of the ships nose provides the best firing arc (as it can cover either side and top and bottom, useful even for close in battles and broadsides), and using a larger single cannon rather than smaller ones increases the range - if it's able to target the surface of a planet from orbit that opens up a great deal of enforcement options as well… Disable a ground target before landing troops, neutralise defenses, wear down installation shields, and most importantly, warning shots. Populace getting unruly, take out the power grid for a while and it will scare the locals and remind them that they are at the mercy of the ISD, without causing widespread casualties that create martyrs and damage the planets facilities - they are still imperial citizens who should pay taxes. It even fits in with the Tarkin doctrine, having a ISD zap the power supply will leave them wondering if a Imperial assault force is about to land while they can't communicate or check sensors - heightening paranoia, are stormtroopers about to burst in (useful for a Imperial snatch and grab operation on a otherwise loyal town/city), is turbolaser fire about to obliterate them all, or was that the warning. And it allows the ISD to start small and escalate the punishment as circumstances require. Finally as hinted at before, more tractor beams, have enough positioned to be able to target all arcs, after all an ISD's main purpose is to enforce imperial order, not for pitched battles against a massive enemy amarda, because, well there isn't one. And besides, tractor beams do have a combat use in holding enemy ships still to target more efficiently and prevent them maneuvering. But it also holds modified freighters in place that otherwise can be just really annoying. And the power for the tractors won't be needed in a pitched battle so having them installed won't take away from the damage output, since it is power that restricts how many guns can be installed. Since apparently gravity well generators are too expensive (really, not even just a small one to prevent hit and run attacks and stop ships fleeing before inspection before you realise they're about to jump and can lock on tractors?) extra tractor beams will have to suffice. And final finally, secondary shield emitters. Seriously, take apart a Mon Calamari ship and reverse engineer it. But the single best upgrade any ISD could receive would be better screening and training for bridge officers, and maybe safety rails.

In one of the novels from the new Jedi order series Gilad Pellaeon specifically say that the imperial star destroyers were created to specialise in orbital bombardment and use this feature to destroy a huge vong force by luring them to a planets surface then opening up on them

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Technically Allen, the Battle of Taranto in Italy was the first battle which carriers attacked battleships. While not as famous as Peral Harbor, it inspired it as Japan went to take notes after the attack.

I would like to point out that in space, battleship doctrine is far less of a disadvantaged idea in comparison to aircraft carriers, as one of the main reasons behind the succes of aircraft carriers in comparison to battleships is the fact that the carrier can stay out of the battleships visual range while launcing waves of naval bombers and other aircraft at it meanwhile a large portion of battleships in ww2 didn't have efficient radar technology while the carriers have scout aircraft flying around doing reconnaisance missions and finding the enemies. In space unless your fighters have either FTL drives or your enemy is flying around in what is literally bricks with guns and life support with nothing else added, these advantages do not exist as shots will continue on in your direction the moment they are fired as there is no resistance and a ship the size of a carrier with space for enough fighters to actually take out a heavy cruiser/battleship cannot hope to move enough to fully dodge such volleys unless the ship firing at you does not have a basic fire control computing system, while the enemy will spot you just as quickly as you them no matter which ship you are in unless you are lying in wait in an ambush, in which case a battleship would actually have the advantage as it can just fire at you instead of needing its aircraft to get close to the enemy.

A updated Harrower would have been a better design. Even if enlarged to the same dimensions as a ISD. The front bays were a vulnerability against equally sized ships - but there weren't any.

Minor quibble: You said the attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed the American CARRIER fleet. The carriers were out on maneuvers; it was the battleship fleet that was pretty much wiped out.

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You know I always question if anyone at Generation Tech has ever played X-Wing: Alliance. Star Destroyers were a real threat in that game. If you flew in a straight line for too long in one's vicinity you would be blown out of the sky by point defense laser cannons. More often than not on those missions I was weaving and juking to dodge TIE fighters on my tail while trying to not let the capital ships hit me. Taking out an entire Star Destroyer was a Herculean task.

The venator is like the best ship ever for the rebels! It can hold 400 star fighters!

It would have been great if the Empire just crammed as many TIE fighters as they could into the Venator, and the Rebels would never have stood a chance.

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Ive always appreciated how the star destroyers always gave this dominant/superior look

Aside from the lack of starfighters for its size, think these boys could take on the Seppue fleet with ease?

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It was also large enough and carried enough supplies to be a flying base as well. Though honestly, a pair of Venators with a few Acclamators and a few light frigates would still be the better choice. Can still do some terrifying shock and awe with just fighters and LAATs.

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Nice touch featuring HMCS Algonquin (DDG283) in the package. The issue with the term "destroyer" is that it is highly morphed into meaning different roles depending on the navy and the requirements it serves as was the case with the Algonquin tasked largely with an anti-submarine role with its inception. The Japanese Self-Defence Force does not officially have aircraft carriers, yet their Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer is essentially an aircraft carrier in all but name. The Star Wars universe has added a great deal of detail to the classic Imperial Star Destroyer well beyond the first trilogy of films. As featured in Episode IV, it was used as a system control ship for standalone interdiction duties along with a compliment of Stormtroopers for ship board raiding parties and planetary policing. The compliment of TIE fighters and TIE bombers is in support of that primary role.

Alan, here's a question I really would like you guys to dig into: How did the Empire manage to build 25,000 Imperial class Star Destroyers so quickly? To say nothing of recruiting and training all the crew. I know you could just churn out ships from automated factories, but there didn't seem to be a huge number of massive factory planets like Kuat. How did they manage all this?

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I always thought one of the big purposes of the ISB besides being a symbol of power and fear, they were modular and could be broken down to form immediate bases if needed.

I think the fact that shields are a thing in SW could mean battleships could have a place again.

The Original Trilogy never said Star Destroyers were slow, in fact it always suggested outrunning them was basically impossible, and the fact that Han could/tried was thought as insane. Which make sense when you look at how big the engines on a Star Destroyer are in comparison to the rest of the ship, then how small most other ship's engines are compared to the size of the ship, the only other ship that really has the same ratio is the Falcon. And Star Destroyers make complete sense for Imperial doctrine, Star Destroyers aren't built for combat, not with other capital ships, or Star Fighters, they're made for looking scary, and glassing cities. Those turbo lasers and ion cannons aren't for shooting military targets, they're for destroying cities, and stopping fleeing civilian ships. Star Destroyers make 100% sense for what he Empire was going for.

Correct me if I am wrong but it also had a god number of troops it could deploy on the ground complete with support and vehicles. In essence they tried to make one ship that could do the role of carrier, battleship (in the modern real world sense), troop transport and interdiction. Of course that means it was a single multi-role hip. In reality no general mult-purpose tool does a single job as well as a specialized one.

The Star destroyer would have been very effective in the clone wars though. Plenty of large, relatively weak enemy vessels that love to fight in knight fight range? The SD would’ve been devastating.

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Star Destroyers are mobile command posts and floating headquarters. You can position one over the capital of a small nation and send bombers out to every city on the continent throughout the day, using it as an unassailable command post and attack platform. You can also set it over a particularly rebellious zone of the planet and use the bunkers and pillboxes slung underneath to maintain a perfect sniper platform while unleashing more bombers or dropping ground troops. We've seen them set up bases and garrisons within days on planets and then jump out to go elsewhere--so they could easily circumnavigate a planet within a week, squashing an entire global rebellion without requiring any support ships or additional escorts. They're not just there to chase down small ships--they can Do It All. They're faster than any other vessel out there, they have gunports and point-defense weapons all along their length, and we haven't seen them hindered in movies by anything short of a full torpedo barrage, an antiorbital artillery piece, asteroids, and a combined Rebel fleet effort.

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I love how you showed Star Blazers for the Yamato. Also, I think you should make your background music louder like it was in some older videos, it's nice

Actually, the same person who made the Venator-class Star Destroyer (Lira Blissex) created the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. The Imperial-class was an improvement on the Venator-class, especially considering how ships of the line in the Clone Wars functioned. They didn't put much emphasis on starfighters since aside from the odd Jedi pilot, most starfighters were backups to the larger ships. So they took the Venator, traded hangar space for more shields, armor, and firepower, and called it a day. The funny thing is, they could have used more firepower, especially during the later stages of the Rebel Alliance when the Alliance took off the kid gloves and started fielding massive Mon Calamari cruisers, which Star Destroyers were barely able to match. While a lot of Generation Tech vids praise the Arquitens-class corvette and the Venator-class Star Destroyer, in reality, the Imperial-class was a necessary step forward. That firepower may seem overkill when pitted against pirates and guerillas in peacetime, but when the larger Rebel forces start showing up, that firepower will be necessary. Also, it wasn't easy for Rebel starfighters to take down an Imperial Star Destroyer. In the movies, it's outright suicide to use a starfighter against a Star Destroyer, and in games such as Battlefront II classic or Rogue Squadron 2, unless you play your cards right or have backup, that Star Destroyer will pound your starfighter into space dust. There's a reason why Rogue Squadron 2's 5th and 9th levels were dreaded, because Star Destroyers served as bosses there, and many players got shot down trying to take on those massive warships. And of course, the firepower of the TIE fighters were usually more than enough to take down Rebel starfighters, so they were fit for the job of fighting Rebel forces too, and having more starfighters instead of fewer means that the Rebels can't just destroy them all by locking on proton torpedoes and opening fire. I'd hate to see Allen's version of the Empire where he splurges the Imperial budget on TIE Defenders, Arquitens-class corvettes and Venator Star Destroyers, only for Y-Wings, B-Wings, and the Mon Calamari cruisers to tear through that fleet as if it were made of toilet paper. Mon Calamari cruisers have more than enough firepower to tear through Venators and Arquitens ships as if they were target practice. And with TIE Defenders being horribly expensive, he'd have fewer fighters to deal with Rebel starfighters, who can easily respond to the shielded TIE Defenders by using ion cannons and proton torpedoes, both of which are available for the aging Y-Wing and the up-to-date B-Wing. And with no superweapons like the Death Star to lure in Alliance forces for one big, final battle, the Alliance will keep their forces divided and keep on using hit-and-run tactics, which will end with more destroyed Arquitens and Venator ships due to them both being out of date and no match for Rebel bombers and heavy cruisers. Practically, Generation Tech's ideal Empire would get torn to shreds by the Rebels via a death of a thousand cuts. Whereas in the old canon, the Empire managed to hang on to power all the way to 130 years after the first movie, and by that point, they're practically the only superpower in town.

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I think either Tarkin, or somebody else, in legends also mentioned the psychological tactics when deplying them. Mostly how the sight of something so large coming at them tends to make people panic rather than approach the situation tactically.

The Japanese navy ran into the same problem with these massive battleships they built that were not really viable anymore against the aircraft focused combat that was becoming the dominant way of waging war

I do appreciate your nod there to other sci-fi works out there, especially that one of Space Battleship Yamato. Would check it out, and tell us about their space battles. They are pretty impressive, I must say.

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The star destroyer designation doesn't reflect its fleet role, it reflects the vessel's ability to lay waste to a star system's habitable worlds by carrying out a Base Delta Zero.

I think battleship Bismarck saga was an inspiration for that big CIS ship that took out the Wolfpack fleet.

I would add that the Sith Star Destroyer from the Great Galactic War, was actually a battle carrier. It have 4 hangers which it used to launch massive amounts of fighters and bombers. But I would argue that ISD's are fundamentally flawed, since it follows Tarkin's Rule By Fear. Meaning ISD's were weapons of terror designed to intimidate the enemy, while a Venator or even Mon Calala cruisers were weapons of war designed to kill the enemy.

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The star destroyer is a good ship (expect that stupid bridge). The big problem is that they don’t come with support craft. The empire could have fixed this by having star destroyers carry tie defenders which could protect against other fighters making the star destroyer self sufficient by its own fighter compliment. They are expensive but they are the ultimate fighter. It’s al in one. They are bombers (no more money on tie bombers) they are interceptors and they can patrol sistems alone with their hyperdrive (on longer distances or more large areas a frigate might be needed).

correction: the attack on Pearl Harbor devastated the US PacFleet *battleships* but missed the carriers entirely - they were not in port at the time. the attack was intended to get them all, but the fog of war did not favor the Imperial Japanese Navy that day.

People seem to forget that the ISD was a jack of all trades. A battleship to be sure but also a carrier and a troop transport and mobile command base. Comparing it to venators is a classic mistake. Those ships were designed after the original trilogy which is why the prequels have a more modern feel. Also there were no venators kept in the imperial era. So the Isd has one of the largest fighter complements in its era. Its only true weakness is the removal of point defense. This was clearly done so that starfighters had a chance to beat them. Reduce the turbo laser and ion cannon numbers by 10-20 % and instead use that power allotment for point defense and it would fairly bristle with quad laser turrets and starlight scale tractor beams. End of the revel advantage. The ISD is an excellent ship with multirole capabilities. It just needs a point defense refit.

I can’t fly it?! What am I even doing with my life then? Commanding sounds boring! I want to move my ships up and down, left and right, and shoot lasers that go pew pew

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@GenerationTech, you misspoke when you said that the Japanese devastated the US Carrier fleet at Pearl Harbor. You meant Battleship fleet...

Empire needed an occupation/policing fleet, while the Republic was building up it's fleet for space war. This surely have an impact on ship design and fleet organization.

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The Star Destroyer is it’s own type and isn’t a destroyer type in the naval sense. Tbh the imperial class probably was the best solution for the empire, it was one of the fasted ships and could pursue most smaller vessels. (A New Hope first scene) so it would be useful against rebellious vessels and it could launch fighters and bombers to both protect itself and attack enemies. The TIE series should have been improved and was the weaker part of the ship and i would have liked to have seen the weapons in better positions, the ISD’s heavy Turbolasers has serious blind zones or limited fire zones including directly ahead, below, directly behind. The triangular shape is made redundant by its weapon placement, All that being said the ISD is capable of taking on almost any ship seen in the clone wars and so is the best option because it’s a capable battleship and carrier and troop transport. Since it won’t be facing huge swarms of vulture droids it doesn’t need the large carrier capacity. Yes the venator could win in a carrier battle but who’s gonna have a venator class with 400 crafts and pilots when the Empire is controlling everyone’s planets. Good video though

ISD is definetly a destroyer within the old legend's canon, beyond the imperial class the empire does have their own battlecruisers, battleships, and dreadnoughts. ISD is actually just a medium sized ship, the only confusing class is the cruiser, with even ships like the Gozanti class and Arquitens class being listed as the cruiser, which the former is just a cargo ship and the later is a frigate.

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If the Venator did, why didn’t the ISD have proton torpedo launcher?

The SD was really a mobile base. It was part carrier, part battle cruiser, part ground invasion platform. It was so much more then a battleship. It was and enforcer ship. It’s issue was the cheeped out on the fighters and never have it a proper escort. Even modern carriers have escorts.

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Would also be cool if there would be small factions who use the imperial I- class as their flagship. Dunno, it just seems so dope. I mean, I WANT ONE!!!

Basically SD was for occupation of planets that battle. It's designs work best for planetary bombarding it looks big and scary. It can has great number of stormtroopers, even without great number of aircrafts.

Tarkin was like a sith lord focusing so much in fear and destruction

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I feel like you are forgetting that the Imp was designed to be a task force leader not a fleet in of its self. There was spossed to be a handful of carracks and other ships to support it. However, 10,000 imperials, the fleet of SSDs, and during the rebellion even replacing ties stretched the resources available, so the smaller ships didn't get enough built and the fleet that the Imperial was expecting to leave didn't exist in the numbers required.

Nitpick on the wedge-shape: the REPUBLIC first came up with it, the Sith just copied it. As for the ISD, it was designed during the Clone Wars, and seems to be tailor-made around the Jedi's needs: they needed a ship capable of leading a fleet, take on the Separatists' strongest ships, defend itself with fighters, and if necessary land a decent assault force, and the ISD is equipped with the communication suite of a flagship, can smash anything less than the Malevolence, carries a full wing of fighters, and a whole legion with its vehicles. The use as a psychological weapon came later.

Technically speaking, the number of ships/resources involved in sinking some of the big battleships were absurd. 300+ aircraft (4+ carriers worth) to sink the Prince of Whales, for example. And some later ones, like the Iowa, had GOLDY point defenses, unlike ISD's.

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What if you held a contest for a redesign of the star destroyer and you picked the winner from all the canidates, but the requirements would be that it had to have a 3D model, full description of personnel, armament, carying comapcity, engine type, square footage of interior and so on, and even a doctrine and how the ship would be used. Then have the winner receive a free peice of merchandise and the ship would get a full reveiw in video with your opinion of it

great video and all, but at 4:33 light cruisers are more Heavily armed, larger and, more armor than a destroyer, not the other way around.

Make the ISD a bit bigger, give it more and/or better fighters, good point defence and maybe a gravity well projector and you have the ultimate rebel hunting ship. It was already surprisingly fast in real space and hyperspace and pretty much impossible to contend with in ship to ship combat for most small fleets (without rebel plot armour).

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Also, small nitpick for this: space combat is far, far different than traditional naval combat. In space, large caliber guns makes sense as they have a far large effective range than their planet-bound counterparts. Lack of gravity and the vacuum of space tend to do that. Missiles would still be more effective on average, but large caliber guns would still be effective at a fraction of the cost of a single missile and potentially have similar results.

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I think the star destroyers where mostly to strike fear like the super star destroyer they didn't really didn't care about how many lives they loss but I think it was mostly used to control and a big wrecking ball. BUT never take Ideas from the empire they don't know what to do with all that power. All they had to do is make more venators and more vehicles from the clone wars.

I've made this stupid argument before, but the Star Destroyer is a destroyer because we often see it in a fire support role for an even bigger, less maneuverable dreadnought. It's actually the smallest class of ship, other than a fighter or a shuttle, we ever see the Empire using in the movies. It's just that everything the Empire makes is impractical. Their interceptors can't dogfight. Their body armor can't take a hit from a bow and arrow. Their gas masks don't filter out toxins. Their rifles are inaccurate. Their ground based troop transports are slow and have a ridiculously high profile. So yes, they build destroyers the size of battleships, battleships are the size of space stations, and space stations the size of a small moon. That doesn't make the Star Destroyer a battleship, it makes it a badly designed destroyer. Just like in real life how an RG31 is a badly designed jeep, not a tank.

Actually, battleships are very resistant to anti ship missles. It would take very specifically made ones to go through the armour of say an Iowa class. An antiship missle would just bounce off, but the reason why they were phased out is because the aircraft carrier was able to be a jack of all trades while the battleship was becoming a easy target for delegation.

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Correction. The Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor sunk most the pacific fleet not the carrier fleet with operated with few ships mostly light cruisers, destroyers, and one or more carriers with maybe an escort carrier.

The real purpose of the imperial star destroyer: to get blown up by the main characters

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Everyone knows how powerful the star destroyer imperial is. It is almost impossible to beat this ship in realistic battles. Therefore, the filmmakers deliberately reduced its true effectiveness several times to allow the rebels to fight. The star destroyer imperial was too powerful. with a size of 1 mile It will have enough firepower to easily handle up to 1,000 rebel warships simultaneously in realistic combat based on a sensible modern weapon system. To make the star destroyer imperial float in the atmosphere so softly. The engine would have to generate as much energy as a nuclear warhead every second to allow such a massive object to float softly. Because antigravity systems need to produce magnetic fields so powerful they can fight the magnetic fields of entire planets. That means the star destroyer imperial can blow an entire rebel army with a single shot if this is a reasonable battle. The Star Destroyer Empire was underestimated. The things that the movies do are illogical. The villains are always defeated by surprises. When pleasing the audience is more important than the realism of the movie lol

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