Imperial capital ship (Giel's armada)

Imperial carrier

The Imperial carrier was a wedge-shaped vessel that served as a part of Admiral Giel's assembled fleet c. 3 ABY.

It was similar in appearance to Admiral Giel's own command ship, but the hull had a truncated bow with a flat section between double-pronged protrusions, which may have exposed a set of internal docking bay openings.

Behind the scenes

 * This ship appears in a single panel in Star Wars 61; its design seems to be derived from that of Admiral Giel's battleship, which plays a major role in the same issue, and which was based on early concept art for Darth Vader's vessel, Executor. Given the many similarities in appearance, it is possible that the carrier and Giel's ship were intended to be variants of the same design, although they could simply derive from the same design tradition.


 * It is widely idetified as a starfighter carrier, on the basis of the apparently "open" bow and the TIE Fighters seen in proximity to it&mdash;but this is fanon speculation, as are suggestions that it was a Corellian Engineering Corporation warship.


 * This ship also bears some marked similarities in appearance to an Imperial warship called Demolisher, which appears in the Star Wars: Droids cartoon, and also the Broadside-class cruiser in the computer game Star Wars: Empire at War. The Demolisher does have a hangar bay in its bows, but this space on the Broadside contains missile batteries. Whether the design of these ships was a direct reference to the vessel seen in the Marvel comic is unknown.

Appearances

 * Star Wars 61: Screams in the Void