Hammerhead-class cruiser

Hammerhead-class capital ship Hammerhead-class capital ship was a classification of warships used by the Republic Navy during the Old Sith Wars and the New Sith Wars.

Characteristics
Vastly inferior to Sith ex-Galactic Republic starships such as Ravager and the Interdictor-class Cruisers, the Hammerhead-class capital ships and Republic cruisers appeared to be stopgap ships, warships that could hold the line until stronger warships could be constructed.



Being underpowered, they resembled the later Consular-class space cruiser and the CR90 Corellian Corvette. They also bore a large resemblance to the EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate of the Galactic Civil War era, due to the vertically elongated bridge.

They were poorly armed in comparison, possessing only a few turbolasers, the maximum had been observed ranging from 6 to 8 respectively, all facing forward (though it appears that they also possess 8-10 laser cannons along their sides).

Despite their low armament, when gathered in enough numbers they could hold their ground for some time against Sith forces. At the aft of each vessel, some quad-lasers were used for anti-starfighter warfare. They were propelled by four ion engines emitting particles in the orange section of the visible spectrum.

History


With a third of the Republic's fleet crushed at Malachor V, another third taken by Revan to form the basis of his Sith Empire's forces, and the final third presumably with the Republic, the ailing government turned to these smaller capital ships, in use since the Great Sith War of thirty years earlier, to halt the Sith advance.

During the New Sith Wars they remained in use. During that war, they each held a squadron of Aurek fighters and had undergone radical upgrades and design revisions since their debut thousands of years before.

The Hammerhead was probably the longest serving class of ship in any military, serving for approximately 3,000 years. As a result, the wreckage of a Hammerhead-class vessel could be seen on Mustafar as late as 0 BBY, confirming that they had been in service for thousands of years.

Known ships

 * Endar Spire
 * Harbinger
 * Sojourn

Behind the scenes

 * The dimensions of the ship have yet to be revealed officially. 167 meters to 400 meters have been speculated, but 300 meters seems closer to the actual length.


 * Leland Chee has confirmed that the ships seen in the Knights of the Old Republic video game are of the same class that was named in Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, but that the version of the book and that of the game may have different specs considering that they are used 3,000 years apart from one another.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Flashpoint
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
 * Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan