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Chart of Victory class destroyer
Victory class destroyer from up and down
Lenght: 0.9
Top Speed: 8 MGLT
Turbo Laser Turrets: 10
Warhead Launchers: 2
Shield Strength: 200
SBD Hull Strength: 100 RU
Description: One of the older capital ships around, the Victory Class STD was put in to service shortly before the end of the clone wars. Despite it's age, however, The Victory class STD is still, with the exception of the Imperial Class STD, the ultimate warship design. Once described by a high ranking Admiral as "a fleet in a box" the Victory Class STD is capable of just about anything, including planetary assault and occupation, carrying as it does more than 2,000 ground troops and equipment, which includes two prefabricated garrisons. It also has the advantage of being able to operate in planetary atmosphere, unusual for a capital ship of its size. This gives the ship both a tactical and psychological advantage in assaults. It is also a formidable ship-to-ship combatant, it's only weakness being its outdated ion drives are simply not powerful enough to keep up with newer spacecraft. To surmount this weakness, Victory Class Star Destroyers are often paired with Interdictors or Escort Frigates.
General info of Star Destroyers:
Standard destroyer vessel of the Galactic Navy during the waning years of the Old Republic. Still manufactured in some quantities and exposed to plenty of action, mainly against pirate and other criminal forces which prey upon remote regions of the galaxy. This ship is so small that it is able to safely enter planetary atmosphere, though it is not equipped to land on a solid surface. Oceanic landings ought to be feasible.
The Victory is not a Kuat Drive Yards design; it is the product of the Rendili StarDrive corporation. (According to Essential Guide to Vehicles & Vessels, Rendili's development of new ship designs had declined to a halt by the end of the Palpatine Era, although the company remained active.) Rendili's command module is significantly smaller than those of the modern KDY warships, but it carries proportionatelly larger and more numerous sensory antennae.
Two distinctive apertures on the ventral surface of a star destroyer are docking bays: partially enclosed volumes where smaller ships can be conveniently moored in vacuo without gravity. The aft docking bay (primary bay) is approximately 185m long and 160m wide. The foreward (secondary) bay is a few times smaller, with dimensions of about thirty-seven by fifty-six metres. The smaller spacecraft launched and received from these sites include vessels as tiny as TIE fighters and unmanned probe droid hyperspace pods. Craft as large as dropships, ground assault landing barges and even some lesser combat starships can be accommodated.
A star destroyer has three major propulsion systems. One is the hyperdrive, which achieves a crossing of the lightspeed barrier for supralight travel; the other two are concerned with movement through realspace at sublight speeds.
The hyperdrive systems of Imperial warships are exceptionally powerful and well-tuned compared to those of civilian starships. Hyperdrive acceleration systems are coupled to excellently calibrated inertial damping systems so that crew and officers can work and stand freely during jumps without experiencing the tiniest jolt. (Compare this with the performance of the star freighter Millennium Falcon, where passengers must "strap in" for the jump.)
Our present state of knowledge about the structure of the known classes of star destroyers holds that the bridge of the ship is located in the broad hexagonal module at the highest point of the vessel's dorsal superstructure. The tower is sometimes colloquially known as the "head" of the ship. The details of the structure of the command tower vary slightly between the ship classes and between the different models within each class.
Our present state of knowledge about the structure of the known classes of star destroyers holds that the bridge of the ship is located in the broad hexagonal module at the highest point of the vessel's dorsal superstructure. The tower is sometimes colloquially known as the "head" of the ship. The details of the structure of the command tower vary slightly between the ship classes and between the different models within each class.
The aggressive combat role of a star destroyer is one of the most important factors dictating the specifics of the vessel's design. The angular dagger-like form, sloping and thinning towards the bow and sides, ensures maximum visibility of guns to targets in almost every direction, with minimum obstruction from other emplacements and hull sections. Enemies above, below or to the sides are faced with at least half of the destroyer's weapons. Targets in the forward arcs are vulnerable to nearly all of the guns simultaneously: all guns in the brim trenches, on the major hull plates, and on the dorsal superstructure; only some extreme stern-mounted guns would be blocked.
