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Author: StarSword

Jan 11th 2013 at 11:06:55 AM

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* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' adds enough of these that it seems kilometer-plus is fairly standard for heavy capital ships in the Galaxy Far, Far Away, particularly in the Imperial and post-Imperial eras.  These are just some of the biggest examples.
** "Super star destroyer" is basically a catchall term for ships following the star destroyer design philosophy and larger than about three kilometers.  The Empire built many of these, but most were one-offs and only the ''Executor''-class went into (relatively) wide production with around a dozen known.
** The ''Eclipse''-class star dreadnaught from ''DarkEmpire'' is 17 kilometers long, outmasses the ''Executor''-class, and mounts a superlaser capable of cracking a planet's crust.  This won't destroy the planet, but the seismic effects will depopulate it quite handily.
** By the ''NewJediOrder'' series the New Republic saw the need to have a counter for super star destroyers and the like, and the Mon Calamari supplied the 17 km ''Viscount''-class battleship.  For their part the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yuuzhan Vong]] had their ''koros-stronha'' or "worldships", 10 km in diameter and primarily colony ships but quite capable of defending themselves against GFFA capital ships.  They also had a couple different types of ''kor chokk''[[note]]"grand cruiser"[[/note]] of similar size that served much the same command-and-control/heavy battleship role as super star destroyers.
** By the ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'' comics ships of SSD scale are seen as AwesomeButImpractical (without a galaxy-sized tax base they cost too much to operate) and no longer in use.  The Fel Empire's warship of choice is the ''Pellaeon''-class star destroyer, which is about the same length as an ''Imperial''-class but more massive.

EDIT:  Actually, ''Franchise/StarWars'' might need its own folder.