This foot-long meter ship, equipped with turbolasers and cannons, is dwarfed and overtaken by Darth Vader's Imperial Star Destroyer. This is kind of cool: The proton-bomb-equipped Resistance spacecraft looks like a giant, flying Star Trek phaser. With two orbital guns and more than two dozen cannons, there's a lot to dread in this more than 25,foot-long 7,meter Mandator IV-class siege dreadnought from Last Jedi.
This First Order behemoth may have taken the most-powerful title here but for one not-so-minor detail: This thing doesn't even last 15 minutes in Last Jedi before it's blown up by a lone Resistance bomber.
This stealthy, foot-long craft, first flown by Hera Syndulla in the animated series Star Wars Rebels , stands out from the crowd, thanks to what StarWars. This approximately 3,foot-long 1,meter gray whale, a Rebel-aligned, Mon Calamari ship from Return of the Jedi , is heavily armored -- and armed. Most notably, it has a bridge that gives Admiral Ackbar a clear view for spotting an Imperial trap.
This heavy starfighter branded "rb" for "reinforcement battery," per Wookieepedia is nicknamed the Brute, and it's easy to see why. It's the brutish version of the Imperial-era TIE fighter. But with great size comes, well, slower speed and acceleration. This insta-classic, immortalized in Lego collections the world over, is piloted by Anakin Skywalker in The Clone Wars. The ship belongs to a class of Jedi starfighters that's noted for being lightning-quick in combat.
This crescent-shaped beast, the symbol of doom in Phantom Menace , should rule this power list. It's nearly as wide as it is long about 11, feet, or 3, meters. It boasts hundreds of crew, plus thousands of weapons and starfighters.
It remotely controls droid armies. Its flaw? It gets taken out by a 9-year-old. This Naboo ship, another standout from Phantom Menace , zips and zaps through space with ease.
It's so easy to fly, a kid can do it. Its proton torpedoes are so easily fired, a kid can do that, too -- to the detriment of a certain Trade Federation battleship.
From its design to its hypderdrive, this TIE fighter is like no other. It would rank higher here but for the fact that to date, the ship has only been seen in Star Wars Rebels. Looking like a winged predator, this foot-long One even makes it out of the bombing run intact -- and the model lives on in Empire Strikes Back , Return of the Jedi and more. At just 30 feet 9 meters long, this nifty number, as first seen in Star Wars: A New Hope , is one of the smallest craft listed here.
But size doesn't matter when you've got laser cannons, proton torpedoes -- and iconic staying power. Per StarWars. This nimble, foot-long 9. Darth Maul knows how to do lightsabers -- and ships. This distinctive vessel from Star Wars: The Force Awakens sees your laser cannon, and raises the stakes with a cloaking device and, per Wookieepedia, "experimental ion engines. The seismic charges emitted from Jango Fett's ship from Attack of the Clones are devastating, audibly unsettling -- and all-around awesome.
At some 7, feet 2, meters long, this hawk-nosed, angry-faced battleship from Count Dooku's Separatist fleet is a fearsome fixture of the Clone Wars and first seen in episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Revisionists have argued that it was fine for the Rebels to destroy the second Death Star: it was semi-complete in its shipyard and not running with a full crew.
But the Executor was fully operational and at battle stations. It's as if 50, souls, in an area roughly the size of Manhattan, cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Anyway, next time you're in New York, remember — you're not going from the East Village to the Upper West Side, you're going from the forward ion cannon bays to the bridge.
Sadly you might have to take the subway rather than the turbolift. Just try to avoid getting force choked on your way.
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Phones Laptops Headphones Cameras. Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Health Energy Environment. YouTube Instagram Adobe. In the later years, production on Executor -class Star Dreadnoughts and other Super Star Destroyers accelerated in a display of the Emperor's wealth and power.
After the death of the Emperor and the fragmentation of the Galactic Empire into feuding fiefs, Executor -class Star Dreadnoughts were popular acquisitions amongst warlords hoping to improve their military power and prestige. Some would fall into the hands of the New Republic , where they would fight against the Empire they had once served. However, it was destroyed by the Jedi Callista Ming.
Following the Black Fleet Crisis , where the New Republic faced the Star Dreadnought Intimidator , [27] a decision was made to build a warship class that could counter threats from rogue warships like the Executor -class. By the Sith—Imperial War , the Executor -class was gone from active service, having been found too expensive to run.
It shared this fate with many other heavy warship designs, as fleet doctrine moved towards smaller, compact weapons platforms, like the MC Scythe -class main battle cruiser. Atari vector drawing with similar The Empire Strikes Back production art underneath. In the Empire Strikes Back arcade game for Atari, an Imperial ship can be seen searching for the Rebels' secret base shortly before the Battle of Hoth. This crude vector drawing was similar to an early Executor production painting.
The filming model of Executor included some unusual items attached or built-in to create structural details. One notable item visible on close examination of the model is a toy soldier. At some point, the design was changed and enlarged, and the vessel became much bigger than its escorting Star Destroyers. G-canon movie visuals established a length of around 11 miles, a size that was maintained by the special-effects team for its two on-screen appearances.
The sources all used "larger," but the other characteristics differed slightly. The script used the phrase "more awesome," the Poster Monthly "stronger," and the novelization "more ominous. Since multiple mile-long Star Destroyers are in Legends material implicitly stated in books like Darksaber and Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire , and explicitly stated in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones Incredible Cross-Sections , this is consistent with earlier sources and does not indicate the Imperial -class specifically, which would have created an inconsistency.
In , the roleplaying-game-based Imperial Sourcebook stated that the class was exactly five times the length of the Imperial -class Star Destroyer, and this figure was perpetuated for about 15 years, in game and non-game sources. Often, the accompanying Executor illustrations did not match the model used in the films, with the command tower being too large compared to the rest of the vessel, the tail section being truncated, and the ship having fewer engines usually stated as nine. The behind-the-scenes book From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives showed the film props and stated that the Executor was conceived as eleven times the size of the original Star Destroyer, which itself was one mile 1.
Despite this, the novel also described the Lusankya as 8 kilometers long. It was explained by continuity checker Leland Chee to be more consistent with the films. Later books and reference guides mostly followed this number. The official Databank has given various sizes over the years, starting with "over eight times longer than an ISD," to In addition to the Executor ' s size, its class and its members were retconned to be Executor -class Star Dreadnoughts, with the earlier classifications of Super Star Destroyer and Super -class Star Destroyer being explained as military colloquialisms and used originally for disinformation purposes by the Empire explained on the Wizards of the Coast website.
Some fans criticized this information for only pandering to a group derisively called "Saxtonites" based on the Star Wars author and technical fan site webmaster Curtis Saxton , and some still reject that the earlier 8-kilometer number was erroneous or that the films can be used to justify "facts" in the Star Wars universe, despite being classified by Lucas Licensing as the highest canon externally and as part of G-canon internally.
The continued use of Super -class Star Destroyer and Super Star Destroyer for these bigger warships, now as colloquialisms instead of nomenclature that describes the ship type, limits any potential continuity errors.
The latest ship-centered book, the edition of Starships of the Galaxy , uses both the colloquial terms as well as the more recent nomenclature, even adding a separate term for SSDs in general, "star dreadnought," regardless of whether they're of the specific Star Dreadnought type. In addition to the reclassification of the Executor , there have been many additions to the Super Star Destroyer line, which originally only described the Executor and its class. Several types are described in Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Trilogy , from smaller Star Cruisers to bigger battlecruisers and Star Dreadnoughts, like the sixteen-engine Megador featured in the Dark Nest Trilogy , and an early, smaller prototype explored in Dawn of Defiance.
When the domes on Executor ' s bridge tower exploded during the Battle of Endor, a crewman said that the bridge shields were down. This could suggest the domes were shield generators despite one dome being intact , something that was reinforced by the Star Wars Roleplaying Game ' s sourcebooks.
Despite this, novels like the X-wing books have used destroying the domes to disable shields as a plot point. The book Inside the Worlds of the Star Wars Trilogy clarified that these domes were, in fact, sensor domes built with local-area shield emitter vanes. In one of the new shots inserted into The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, Executor was light gray, in contrast to all other shots of it in the film, where it is bluish-gray.
This could be accounted for by different background lighting, as the Executor is seen as both light gray and white in publicity shots.
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