Glory (Imperial-class)

The  Glory  was an Imperial class Star Destroyer best known as the flagship of former Imperial admiral Demetrius Zaarin. In its early life, it was mostly used by the Empire for raids on neutral outposts suspected of containing contraband, including the headquarters of Galactic Electronics, makers of the mag pulse warhead. Later,  Glory  became the flagship of Admiral Zaarin, and, when Zaarin turned on the Emperor,  Glory  and most of his fleet went with him. The appearance of  Glory  in a battle after Zaarin turned traitor was much like the rogue admiral's personal calling card - it indicated that he took an active interest in the battle himself, and would usually withdraw before being heavily engaged. While in the Outer Rim, Zaarin was able to keep his rival, Grand Admiral Thrawn, stalemated, and his flagship unscathed, for months. Thrawn, realizing that he had to play a different game if he was going to force Zaarin to blink, played on his enemy's overreliance on technology and dangled the Vorxknx Project in front of him as bait. The plan worked, and Zaarin brought the  Glory  into harm's way in order to retrieve the prototype technology. Though he was initially successful in capturing the project's corvette, Thrawn was able to follow him into hyperspace and brought his forces to bear upon the  Glory , destroying it under heavy fire. The ship predeceased Zaarin himself by only about a minute and a half.