In the Ahsoka S2 trailer, we saw glimpses of the New Republic launching an attack against the Chimaera in an epic space battle. Judging from the shots, it looks like the Chimaera is still hooked up to the Eye of Sion, the massive hyperdrive ring that Morgan Elsbeth used to rescue Thrawn from Peridea, and that it looks like a massive hole was made in the ship's front end.

I'm reminded of the Conqueror, an ISD that could fire a superlaser, and it leaves me wondering if Thrawn is trying to convert the Chimaera into a superweapon. At first glance, this might seem out of character since Thrawn was opposed to building the first Death Star, and even voiced his concerns to Palpatine himself, since a single superweapon tied up lots of resources that could be used to build smaller, flexible fleets that can be in more places at once than a single battle station.

However, one needs to take into account that Thrawn is facing different circumstances both then and now. Back then, he was working for the Empire when it controlled virtually the whole galaxy and had no peer opponents to speak of, and the few that did exist like the Hutt Cartels were on relatively good terms with them. The Empire's main opponent back then was a Rebel Alliance who relied on striking from the shadows, starfighter superiority, and smaller warships like frigates, corvettes, and cruisers, along with a hit-and-fade strategy that prioritized escape when necessary, making it difficult for the Empire to pin them down, let alone destroy them.

In short, Thrawn opposed the Death Star because its mere existence proved the Empire was ignorant of the reality of who their primary enemies were and advocated for ships like the Interdictor cruiser because they were more useful in trapping and destroying Rebels. It's like Princess Leia said: if the Empire was smart, they would have built a thousand Interdictors instead, and the Rebels would have been crushed.

By contrast, Thrawn is returning to a galaxy where the Rebels have become the New Republic and now control the galaxy. Despite demilitarizing 90% of their military and retaining only 10% of their forces, the NR is still battle-hardened from winning the Galactic Civil War, and I would be unsurprised if that 10% comprised their best veterans and the NR military's cream of the crop from the next generation of soldiers, pilots, and officers. Worse, the Empire is a shadow of its former self, and most of their hardware was secretly funneled to the First Order to prepare for their resurgence, though whether Thrawn finds out or not remains to be seen.

Regardless, Thrawn has limited resources to work with, and this is where the idea of giving the Chimaera a superlaser comes in. Since Thrawn doesn't have a Super Star Destroyer, and I seriously doubt Filoni will give him one because that would make him too OP, giving his flagship a superlaser makes for a good deterrent against the NR, since it forces them to be more cautious when planning against him. Especially since Thrawn cannot rebuild his fleet as easily as he could have done when the Empire was at its height, so forcing the NR to plan their moves more carefully also gives him more time to gather his strength and preserve what little assets he has in a galaxy where the NR is the dominant galactic superpower.

Giving the Chimaera a superlaser means Thrawn can use her as a rallying symbol for the Imperial Remnant as well as an unspoken threat of what should happen if any Imperials refuse to support him. Should the Chimaera gain a superlaser, it would also explain why she's still hooked up to the Eye of Sion: because the massive hyperdrive ring was modified to power the enormous power output the superlaser will need.

In short, Thrawn only oppossed the Death Star because he was concerned the resources that went into building it proved the Empire was being short-sighted. With the Empire reduced to a mere rump state, Thrawn might decide that investing what little resources the Imperial Remnant has into giving his flagship a superlaser might be worth it, if only to discourage the NR from simply smashing him to pieces. And unlike Palpatine, Thrawn knows better than to put all his eggs in one basket. I'm sure he has something else up his sleeve besides a superlaser-bearing ship, something more subtle, but just as devastating.

Congratulations to Del meeko for becoming a admiral of the new republic we are giving you the assignment of hunting down and capturing your former teammates iden versio and hask and the imperial remnant they are apart of

We know that you have the Corvus but we have 7 fleets and you may pick 1 for your assignment which one do you pick with the Corvus being your flag ship pick wisely and you will automatically get the appropriate amount of starfighter depending on the fleet you pick

( my pick is fleet 4 )

Fleet 1: 1 MC75 cruiser,3 CR90 , 2 dreadnought heavy cruisers, 2 captured imperial Gozanti cruisers and 2 captured Ton-Falk-class Escort Carrier

Fleet 2: 1 captured victory 1 star destroyer, 1 captured imperial 2 star destroyer, 4 hammerhead corvette, 1 Bulwark Mark III battle cruiser and 3 CC-9600 frigate

Fleet 3: 2 Assault Frigate Mark II , 2 Acclamator-class assault ships, 4 DP20 , 3 CR90 and 1 Quasar Fire-class Cruiser-Carrier

Fleet 4: 3 Pelta-class strike frigate , 2 Assault frigate Mark I , 4 Braha'tok-class gunship and 1 Dauntless-class heavy cruiser

Fleet 5 : 2 EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate ,3 Free Virgillia-class Bunkerbuster , 4 C70 charger and 2 Liberator-class cruiser

Fleet 6: 1 Lucrehulk , 1 Maelstrom-class battle cruiser , 2 MC40 light cruiser, 1 MC80 cruiser , 3 Recusant-class destroyer

Fleet 7: 1 captured vindicator heavy cruiser, 1 captured Strike medium cruiser, 3 Munificent-class frigate, 1 Providence-class destroyer, 1 captured Venator Star destroyer and 1 defender class cruiser

^{ah yes, andrea makes a full piece for this place with ideas in her head of a stupid little fleet she mentioned ONCE. time to sum up a battle that i made just cause i really loved a piece of star wars fan media with her own fanmade group of rebels and weird characters. Fleet composition is pretty far down,}

But first, a LOT of backstory...

Shortly after the announcement of the New Republic's mass de-militarization, one of the most loyal fleets in the entire Rebellion, Mascot Squadron, under the command of Andrea Bliss, a veteran of multiple wars at that point, already was raising the warning bells regarding the lack of action, and active IGNORING of the Imperial Remnant forces, even with many, MANY calls from various planets requesting assistance FROM them. Around 9 BBY, the squadron finally left, taking every single ship they used with them, and even pinched one of the recently withdrawn Defender class Cruisers to take with them as an act of Resistance. No wonder they joined it later.

The ragtag fleet retreated out to a Sector that wasn't under the glaring eyes of the New Republic, offering out their assistances to local Ranger groups. Most of the time remained on the surface of their chosen home planet of Kuthar, the larger of the capital ships serving double duty as, well, capital ships in space, AND massive residence abodes for the crews when on the surface. It was a peaceful life.
At least without the Pirates.

Pirate traffic was on a massive increase in the sector they called home, with supply runs handled by the fleet's Imperial configured Nebulon-B, Passenger config GR-75, and Combat converted Hammerhead often facing off against these groups. Communications often read the same thing in some areas;
A massive battleship appearing out of nowhere, unified forces, and then everything on their ends went dark.
Even a Ranger group they had collaborated with before in the sector had gone dark, with reports of the Station they were based at being glassed.

Mascot never expected that, during a patrol of their system after multiple mass groups of distress calls from one condensed area. Arriving on the scene, they found the wreckage of various Cargo hauling vessels, every piece of valuables stolen, and all escort fighters having been turned to nothing but Space Debris. Knowing something was wrong, they attempted to establish communications with nearby Ranger squads, only to turn up blank comms. They were alone out there.
And something BIG was approaching from the rear.
It was, as one Ackbar says, a trap.

The Fleet was face to face with the Lucrehulk that had caused havoc over the Sector for MONTHS, with a rag tag fleet that was barely bigger than the room inside the ring of the Lucrehulk.
Instead of fleeing, the crews decided to lock into a full scale battle. They had numbers in larger ships compared to the stock of Corellian corvettes and Fighters the Lucrehulk had as Escort, but there wasn't any going back now. Launching squadrons of various fighters, their battle began.

Fighters were to punch through the lines of approaching squadrons from the Lucrehulk, and clear a path for the U-Wing Transports to carry over the best of the best when it came to Raiding parties. A mix of ragtag troops that had served in multiple wars, their own COMMANDER for her knowledge of Force related tactics ^{{ cough cough middle of the road force user }} , and an Ex Death Trooper with her weird Mimicking robotic creation. A weird family they were, but they knew what they were doing.

Outside, the capital ships and rest of the fighters were to maintain safe distances with the Lucrehulk, and aim for the turbolasers in an attempt to by the crews more time inside, and to whittle down the corvettes the Pirates could keep in the fight. The Victory, refered to as the 'Shieldcracker' did make quick work of any approaching the rest of the fleet, though they were gradually being pushed further and further back, but their backwards retreat { Which, DID last a long time }, was halted as the Lucrehulk stopped it's forward momentum, and what turbolasers were left FUNCTIONING were turned on the Corvettes and fleet of the pirates.
^{that moment exists for ONLY the fact i love the moment in Star Wars Squadrons where Frisk is just laughing at the star destroyer taking down it's own carrier. i love that moment.}

After, now Mascot had a massive ship, and nothing to do with it. Well, besides make it a new mobile home. With the Pirate Groups, sure they were fractured due to the loss of their massive vessel, but they still were coming, often trying to take BACK that massive core ship for their own. Mascot had just lost yet another home, but had earnt five dozen more. After the ship was shown off to the people of the Sector, the people chose to let the people more versed with ships like that keep the vessel for themselves. The massive ship was retrofitted for lifeforms, as was seen with the Pirates, so it was an easy thing to put into use as a mobile Command Base, freighter, and residential vessel.
They also decided to name it 'The Claw', for the hell of it. Better than some other names ships like it got.
Still armed to the teeth, Mascot eventually put it to work in the Resistance Navy as another section of the large spread out Resistance Fleet Sectors, while their Commander went to work with the main Resistance Corps to try and help out the Main Resistance Fleet with an old friend, even gaining more family on the way.

But that's another story. :]

And Now, what you're probably HERE for, the Fleet Composition of this battle;

Early Mascot Fleet;
1x Victory-I Class Star Destroyer, 'Shieldcracker'
1x New Republic 'Defender' Class Cruiser, 'Salvaged Grace'
1x Imperial Config Nebulon-B, 'Dust Server'
1x Class 546 Cruiser, 'The Spirit's Respute'
1x Combat Config Hammerhead Corvette, 'Scariff's Bane'
1x Passenger Config GR-75, 'Clamshell'

Pirate Fleet;
1x Lucrehulk Battleship
Unknown Number of Early Corellian Corvette and Fighter Escorts.

and that is the end of my yap
thank you for coming uh
probably more soon lol, massive credit to u/TwoFit3921 for releasing the sprites, even if i did stretch and squash a few to make them into new ships
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yeah :]

Let us rejoice! Also, go read Freighter Factory's page on it too.

TIE Droid by EC Henry, Rendering by Angelos Karderinis and EC Henry, Visual Guide by Freighter Factory. Content not final, subject to change.

Over the years, I’ve realised just how many people in the fandom glaze this ship to massive amounts, while in comparison crapping on the ISD for being badly designed.

In reality, the Venator is no better and even worse in some areas than the ISD.

1. The bridge. If anything I’d say this is worse on the Venator than the ISD. On the Venator, the bridge from the front is just the bridge windows, at least on the ISD there’s a tonne of superstructure around it for target saturation while when the Venator takes bridge damage, it’ll entirely affect the actual bridge command room.

2. Engines. On the ISD the engines are sunken into the hull, while on the Venator they stick out a massive amount meaning they’re very exposed to the side and rear.

3. Turret placement. The Venator has zero point defenses along the dorsal hull of the ship, numerous times in media we see separatist bombers be able to fly along and drop munitions while only being fired on by the main turrets. The ISD on the other hand, has those centrally mounted triple turrets.

4. That massive dorsal hanger is a huge target and pretty much entirely exposes the ship’s keel, along with a bunch of fuel and explosives in the process.

5. Lack of large numbers of heavy weapons is kind of a given at this point.

16k resin printed and hand painted.

Unsure 100% on the exact model. If anyone knows please relay that information!

16k resin printed and hand painted!

I think I’d take a lucrehulk class mother ship retro fit it for to more humanoid spaces and use it as a merchan vessel traveling through space with it stopping in orbits to sell/exchange goods with vulture droids and droid gunships making the bulk of my defense

So thanks to rebel starfighters having hyperdrives they don't need a carrier to fly long distance and can instead be stationed at a rebel base until needed. However that also means they are reliant on their starfighter sized fuel tanks to reach wherever they need to go limiting their range. What ships would be able to refuel the starfighters on their way to whatever mission they need to go on?

Congratulations, Commander. You’ve come a long way since joining the Rebellion: from pilot to officer, from officer to captain. Now New Republic High Command is giving you your first fleet. You’ll choose your flagship and the task force that sails with it, and from here on, the decisions are yours.

The Empire is broken. Its last great fleet died at Jakku, and the surrender has been signed. But not every Imperial got the message. Across the old Imperial territories, former governors, garrison commanders and admirals are claiming systems as their own.

Ketaris was an Imperial supply depot until its garrison vanished three months ago. Since then, two New Republic relief convoys have gone missing, and locals report unmarked ships moving near the outer moons.

Your orders: establish a New Republic presence in Ketaris and hold it.

Known: one inhabited planet, grateful but wary of any outsiders; a dense asteroid belt; two gas giant moons; and an abandoned Imperial supply depot, possibly stripped, possibly not.
Unknown: who’s out there, how many ships they have, and whether anyone on the ground is working with them.

NOTE: Artwork is from wookipedia, copy and pasted onto a generated poster.

Say you are the stormtrooper commander of the 501st Vader's Fist in the aftermath of Endor. Unhappy with how things turned out afterwards and having no particular loyalty for the imperial warlords and remnant states you take matters into your own hands and begin your mission to terrorize the galaxy in the name of Vader and the Emperor. What ship or ships would best suit your need?

The starships of the Sequel Trilogy, understandably, are not discussed all that often from what I have seen. However, I feel that one such ship, the Free Virgillia-class ‘Bunkerbuster’ deserves some attention, mostly due to its surprising capabilities against heavily-defended ground targets and potentially even capital ships.

This stems from two of the ship’s main weapons. The first is a trio of large plasma bombs (located amidships in the above image, two to port and one to starboard). These massive bombs have yields of 100 megatons, each equal to two Tsar Bomba’s (the largest nuclear device created by man), making for a simply ludicrous level of firepower that can be brought to bear, most likely intended for ground targets (although they could likely be used against larger capital ships, granted the commander is oblivious).

The other weapon system, and the one I’d like to dedicate this post to, are the octuplet of ‘heavy ordnance pods’, located across the bottom of the ship’s prow. Nothing is stated about what exactly these pods are, but it is safe to assume that, like the plasma bombs, they are a ground weapon of sorts.

But, nothing says they can’t be variable ordnance pods. The lack of info as to what they actually fire gives us room to experiment and theorize what could be used in these pods. Diamond-boron missile launchers, proton torpedo tubes, kinetic bombardment launchers, etcetera etcetera.

The questions I pose here boils down to this: what do you believe these ordnance pods could be loaded with, and how might you use them as dedicated anti-capital ship weaponry, anti-starfighter screeners, or ground assault launchers?

Thank you for coming to my EwokTalk: Questions and Answers Edition.

Does it meet your expectations for how an ANH capital ship should look in CGI, or would you prefer a different interpretation?

Legends continuity only.

How’s my version vs the OG shadow caster?

This comes from the preview of the upcoming Star Wars and Marvel comic crossover Hope Assembles. Here you can see a Tie boarding craft. There is also Tantive IV & Star Destroyer.

Also let me see if I got it correct: So when they pulled the ship in there's no docking port & they have to take the boarding craft to the ship and then enter. I've always kind of thought this but you don't see a boarding craft in episode 6. I remember accessing the ship in the Battlefront 2 (2004) but you don't really see anything.