Emperor Palpatine was never one for subtlety. His Empire has been built on a foundation of rule through terror. When he reappeared on the galactic stage six years after his apparent "death" at the Battle of Endor, he returned to his old wars of grandoise weapons and attacks of stunning brutality. Renewed in a fresh clone body, Palpatine gathered his allies from the remaining from the remaining Imperial factions and directed his forces from a new command vessel, the Eclipse.
    The Eclipse was a new Super Star Destroyer that was a stunning 17.5 kilometers long: it was twice the size of the original Super Star Destroyer and over ten times the size of Imperial Star Destroyers. The Emperor's new flagship was as much a symbol of Palpatines thirst for power as it was military matériel.
    The incredible ship was deliberatly designed to frighten enemy forces, for a frightened enemy is a defeated enemy. The ship was solid black, and its hull resembled that of naval warships of eras long past. The Eclipse easily achieved its objective of demoralizing enemy troops.
    In combat, the Eclipse's hull and shields were so strong that it could ram enemy vessels without hesitation. The ship was equipped with ten gravity-well projectors to prevent evemy vessels from escaping to hyperspace. Five hundred heavy laser cannons and 550 turbolasers made the ship capable of engaging entire New Republic fleets. The Eclipse carried fifty squadrons of TIE interceptors (six hundred ships) and eight squadrons of TIE bombers.
    The Eclipse was also inteded to devastate entire worlds. Its main weapon was a superlaser weapon, although its power was only two-thirds that of the main weapon aboard the first Death Star-it was "merely" powerful enough to crack the crust of a planet rather than destroy it outright.
    For ground assualts, the Eclipse carried five prefabricated garrison bases and one hundred AT-AT walkers. With a crew of over 700,000 beings and 150,000 troops, the destroyer rivaled the Death Star in sheer manpower.