Valorous (Victory-class)

Devotion of Yevetha, often known simply as Devotion was a Star Destroyer of Imperial design serving in the fleet of the Yevetha in 16-17 ABY.

Devotion was either one of the Black Sword Command ships captured by the Yevetha during their revolt in 4 ABY, or else she was constructed subsequently by the Duskhan League using the old Imperial design. She was one of the ships aboard which Imperial captives were made to serve alongside the Yevetha, and it was aboard Devotion that Tal Fraan had gained much of his insight into the ways in which non-Yevetha thought.

During the Great Purge, Devotion was under the command of Primate Jip Toorr, and served as the command ship in the assault on Polneye, along with Liberty and Honor.

On arriving at the former Imperial world, the Duskhan League ships were unable to target any ground installations because of a sensor-scrambling atmospheric ionization field established by the Empire more than a decade earlier. Jip Toor ordered the Devotion to launch four TIE/rc scouts under the field to spot for the capital ships, but the Star Destroyer's Tactics Master did not anticipate enemy resistance, and Plat Mallar, a colonist flying one of the handful of TIE Interceptor left behind by the Empire, shot down one of the scouts.

Jip Toor dismissed the Tactics Master, and probably executed him after the battle. The Yevethan battlegroup was able to destroy Polneye without any further casualties, wiping out almost the entire planetary population and enslaving the rest, but Plat Mallar escaped in his lone Interceptor, and was discovered by elements of the New Republic's Fifth Fleet.

Behind the scenes

 * It is possible that the Devotion of Yevetha may have been the Valorous, which was one of the Duskhan League command ships aboard which the Imperial captives served, and also one of the Imperial ships at Polneye; but there seems to be no direct confirmation of this.
 * It is not even known for certain whether Devotion was an Imperial-class or Victory-class ship.

Appearances

 * Before the Storm