The Empire's awesome wedge-shaped Imperial-Class Star Destroyers form the core of the Imperial Navy. Ture marvels of starship engineering, Star Destroyers are 1,600 meters long and have over on hundred weapons emplacements for deep-space combat.
    The mere pressence of such a vessel in orbit is often enough to quell uprisings on Rebel-sympathetic worlds, and Star Destroyer commanders can engange who Rebel fleets and still expect victory.
    Standard Imperial Star Destroyers have sixty turbolasers for ship-to-ship combat and planetary assault. A Star Destroyer's superstructure features an immense command tower housing essential systems, computer controls, and the bridge. The command tower is topped by a pair of deflector-shield generator domes.
    Star Destroyers have two ventral landing bays. The aft docking bay-the main launch and landing bay shuttles, support and cargo ships, and TIE fighters- accommodates ships at least 150 meters long. It connects to forward interior bays and storage sections, all of which connect to immense lift shafts. Ahead of the storage sections is the forward launch bay.
    The forward launch bay is used primarily to deploy assault shuttles, walker landing barges, and ground forces vehicles; it also can serve as an auxiliary launch or landing bay for TIE fighters if the main docking bay is disabled.
    A full wing of seventy-two TIE fighters (six squadrons of twelve ships each) is a standard aboard each Destroyer. As of the Battle of Yavin, a standard Star Destroyer maintained for squadrons of TIE/Ins, one squadron of TIE Interceptors, and one squadron of TIE Bombers. By the time of the Battle of Endor, an additional squadron had replaced one of the TIE/In squadrons.
    Support ships, all maintained aboard the Destroyer, included eight Lambda-class shuttles, fifteen stormstrooper transports, five assualt gunboats, and a variable number of Skipray blastboats and Gamma-class assualt shuttles.
    Star Destroyers carry planetary assualt teams, with landing barges, drop ships, 20 AT-AT walkers, 30 AT-ST scout walkers, and 9,700 ground troops. For a long term planetary occupation, the Destroyer can deploy a prefabricated garrison bay with eight hundred troops, then AT-AT's, ten AT-ST's, and forty TIE fighters. Full planetray invasions often require a full fleet, normally six Destroyers, heavy and light cruisers, and carrier ships.
    An upgraded version called the Imperial II began appearing shortly after the Battle of Yavin, boasting a heavily reinforced hull and more powerful turbolaser batteries and cannons. In addition, there are several Star Destroyers variants for specialty missions.