Assertor-class Star Dreadnought

Assertor-class Star Dreadnought The Assertor-class Star Dreadnought was a class of Imperial Star Dreadnought. The Wrath belonged to this class.

Description
The Assertor-class Star Dreadnought had a hull-shape similar in appearance to the Executor-class Star Dreadnought, being primarily wedge-shaped. It also possessed 28 aft thrusters and a hyperdrive.

On the top of the ship was a large, prominant ridge from the stern up to a few yards from the bow, containing several guns as well as the command bridge, slightly similar in appearance to the ridge of the Bellator-class dreadnought. The appearance of the bridge tower was similar in appearance to several other Star Destroyers. The ship was equipped with a large amount of weapons mounted on the top of the ship, as well as the dorsal and ventral surfaces.

History


The Assertor-class served the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War as a command ship and heavily armed weapons platform. The class consisted of at least two ships, which were at one point serviced and refueled at Naval Station Validusia. During a fleet exercise, a ship of this class was refueled by an Altor-class replenishment ship, alongside an Allegiance-class battlecruiser.

The Wrath, an Assertor-class vessel, led at least one Base Delta Zero operation in its career. The dreadnought was in charge of a fleet consisting of Imperial I- and Imperial II-class Star Destroyers and at least one Interdictor-class Star Destroyer. The fleet also had access to squadrons of TIE/D Defender starfighters.

Behind the scenes
"Less dark-side temple and terror weapon, more optimized for basic, 'conventional' fleet work against a growing New Republic."

- Ansel Hsiao

The Assertor-class Star Dreadnought originated as a fanon design by Ansel Hsiao, envisioned as a 15 kilometer long warship with power generation approximately equivalent to 400 Imperial-class Star Destroyers. He based the design on a real-life antecedent. In the early 1900s, Senator Benjamin Tillman, tired of the US Navy's practice of annually requesting slightly bigger battleships, simply told them to design "maximum battleships" that were only limited by their ability to cross the Panama Canal. The artist envisioned it as a more practical dreadnought design meant to combat the New Republic.



The design entered continuity when it appeared in The Essential Guide to Warfare, on which Ansel worked as an illustrator. Jason Fry, author of The Essential Guide to Warfare, confirmed that the length and classification of the Assertor-class were recorded in official continuity in his blog, but stated on the forums at TheForce.Net that any power calculations or other info not mentioned in the endnotes were not necessarily canon.