User:Toprawa and Ralltiir/Zev Senesca

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"I&mdash;it looks like a battle cruiser, sir&hellip;the largest one I've ever seen!&hellip;" "&hellip;The biggest thing this side of the Death Star, Threepio&hellip;"

- C-3PO and Luke Skywalker, upon first sighting the Executor

The Executor was the first of the Executor-class Star Dreadnought line. Measuring a colossal 19,000 meters in length, the Super Star Destroyer marked a crowning achievement in starship engineering for both the Imperial Navy and Kuat Drive Yards, the warship's manufacturer. Nearly twelve times as long as the 1,600-meter-long Imperial I-class Star Destroyer, the Executor represented the largest traditional starship ever constructed by the Imperial Navy at the time of its completion&mdash;only the first Death Star and select Torpedo Spheres were larger.

Following the same recognizable dagger-shaped design of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the Executor ' s superstructure resembled an arrowhead from above. A smooth titanium reinforced alusteel hull surrounded a massive island of habitable volume in the center of the Star Dreadnought. In the blackness of space, the Executor's interior lighting enshrouded the warship in a cerulean glow, though the Executor ' s exterior was in fact a grayish hue, darker than the traditional "Star Destroyer White" typical of the Imperial-class line.

Rising above the dorsal technoscape of the Executor, supported by a thick axis, stood the 285-meter-wide trapezoidal command tower&mdash;a veritable ship unto itself. In a true testament of the Kuat Drive Yards' design philosophy of "terror styling," the command tower was deliberately positioned in prominent view of any vessel bold enough to dare an attack. The command tower housed several key components of the Star Dreadnought, including the dual geodesic deflector shield generator and communications sensor globes, officers' quarters, briefing rooms, escape pods for the Executor ' s upper-echelon commanders, and, most importantly, the bridge.

In accordance with the Executor ' s standard command tower module found on many KDY-constructed warship classes, the bridge design mirrored that of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. A gleaming command walkway, separating twin crewman pits, led to a series of two-meter-tall transparisteel viewports that offered an unobstructed view of space beyond. Although the command tower stood arrogantly exposed above the Executor ' s superstructure, the ship's shielding system, which matched the power output of a medium star, kept it sufficiently protected from attack, making such Imperial opulence a possibility.

The underside of the Executor contained the engineering sections and the primary landing bay, located near the bow of the ship. Thirteen immensely powerful blood red-glowing sublight drive engine thrusters propelled the warship forward at a maximum speed of forty megalights. The Executor was outfitted with a class 2.0 hyperdrive engine for hyperspace travel.

Aside from the Star Dreadnought's unprecedented size, the Executor ' s awesome offensive capabilities set it apart from other warships. Bristling with more than 5,000 turbolaser batteries and ion cannons, 250 heavy turbolaser batteries, 250 heavy concussion missile batteries, and 40 Q7 tractor beam projectors along its city-like surface, the Executor ' s mere presence in an engagement was enough to frighten an enemy force into submission.

Appearances

 * Scoundrel's Luck
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back