Knight Hammer

"That will be my ship."

- Natasi Daala, seeing Night Hammer for the first time

The Knight Hammer, originally named the Night Hammer, was an Executor-class Star Dreadnought that had been constructed in secret by Superior General Delvardus.

Description
The Night Hammer was advanced for Super Star Destroyers of its class. Plated with black stealth armor, the vessel was nearly invisible to enemy forces.

The Night Hammer could carry a crew of up to one hundred thousand, a relatively small crew for its size. This was made possible by a network of highly redundant automated command systems.

19 kilometers long, the Night Hammer was the equal of twenty Imperial-class Star Destroyers.

At an estimated cost of 77.6 billion credits, the Night Hammer was equipped with state of the art armaments and engines. Its most advanced feature was its black stealth-armor, which made the vessel difficult to detect both visually and with sensors.

History
In 5 ABY, Admiral Sander Delvardus was driven from his holdings around Eriadu into the Deep Core by Sien Sovv of the New Republic. There he established his own personal satrapy and began construction on a Super Star Destroyer, the Night Hammer. Delvardus funneled away credits from the rest of what remained of the Empire, placing almost all of them into the massive ship's development. In 12 ABY, Admiral Natasi Daala had Delvardus and twelve more of the most powerful Deep Core warlords killed to prevent them from tearing apart Imperial unity. Upon investigating Delvardus' assets and finding that the warlord had siphoned away a large number of Imperial credits, Daala went to his fortress world to speak with his second in command, Colonel Cronus. Cronus took her to the edge of the system where Night Hammer waited, and upon first seeing the vessel, Daala claimed it as her flagship.

After Delvardus' death at the hands of Admiral Daala, Colonel Cronus presented the ship to her. Daala took the Night Hammer as her second flagship, adding a "K" to its name as a pun, proving that she did indeed have a sense of humor so long as it involved the annihilation of the Jedi.

Daala used the Knight Hammer in an attack against Yavin 4, but ended up losing it completely when the Jedi Callista Ming fired all the torpedoes from the Knight Hammer's own TIE Bombers, destroying the giant ship's sublight engines and sending it plummeting into the gas giant Yavin. Thanks to intuitive designs, however, most of the crew, including Daala, managed to escape.

Appearances

 * Darksaber
 * Planet of Twilight
 * Before the Storm

Notes and references
Knight Hammer Jedi Hammer