Laudable

The Laudable was a Venator-class Star Destroyer in the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars. In 22 BBY, the Laudable was dispathced from the Republic's capital planet of Coruscant, under the command of the Jedi General Ares Nune, to patrol the Phu system for Separatist activity. While on patrol, the task force, which consisted of at least two other Star Destroyers, was attacked by the Malevolence. The Malevolence was a Confederacy warship equipped with two giant ion pulse cannons on each of its sides. Under the command of the cyborg Confederacy General Grievous, the Malevolence took down the shields of the entire Republic fleet with its ion cannons. After doing so, the Malevolence proceeded to destroy Nune's task force, including the Laudable, using its turbolasers to obliterate the exposed ships.

Description
The Laudable was a Venator-class Star Destroyer that served in the Grand Army of the Republic's navy during the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The Laudable was 1,137 meters long by 548 meters wide, and 268 meters high. Its armament consisted of eight DBY-827 heavy dual turbolaser turrets, two medium dual turbolasers, fifty-two point defense laser cannonss, six tractor beam projectors, and four heavy proton torpedo tubes equipped with sixteen torpedoes each. It held a complement of 192 V-19 Torrent starfighters, 192 Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptors, forty LAAT/i gunships, and 24 military walkers.

History
In 22 BBY, while docked at the drydocks at the Republic's capital planet of Coruscant, the Laudable was assigned to the Phuii Jedi General Ares Nune. General Nune was in command of a Republic task force, made up of at least two other Venator-class Star Destroyer, to patrol the Phu system for Separatist activity. Nune himself used the Laudable as his flagship while in the Phuii system. The Laudable's departure from the Coruscant drydocks was witnessed by clone shock troopers Rys and Jek, who were stationed near the drydocks, waiting for their next assignment.

While on patrol, the task force's initial sweeps reported no enemy activity. Nune, from the bridge of the Laudable, ordered another sweep of the surrounding area just to be sure. While the secondary sweeps were underway, Kite, a clone commander stationed on the Laudable, and Nune began to discuss the mission on the bridge.

However, a new Confederate weapon was hiding out of sight of the Republic task force, in the form of the Malevolence. The Malevolence was a Subjugator-class heavy cruiser under the command of General Grievous, the cyborg Supreme Commander of the Separatist's Droid Army. As Kite and Nune were finishing up their conversation, Grievous ordered the Malevolence to fire one of its two ion pulse cannons at the Republic task force, which disabled the shields of the entire fleet. Nune's task force was caught off guard, and the Laudable, along with the rest of the fleet, was destroyed by the Malevolence's turbolaser batteries. The loss of Nune's battle group was later reported in a press release by Holonet News, along with an audio recording of Nune during the attack that had survived the battle.

Commanders and crew
The last commander of the Laudable was General Ares Nune, who commanded the Star Destroyer at Phu. The Laudable held a crew of 7,400 navy personnel, which included Commander Kite. The entire crew of the Laudable, including Kite and Nune, were killed by the Malevolence at the battle of Phu.

Behind the scenes
The Laudable made a brief cameo appearance in the The Clone Wars web comic Prelude, which led into "Ambush", an episode in the first season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series.

The Laudable was given a bigger role in the web comic Shakedown, which led into "Rising Malevolence", an other episode in The Clone Wars television series. The loss of General Nune's task force was mentioned in HoloNet News — A Galaxy Divided, the first installment of the online Holonet News podcast series that took place between the events of Shakedown and "Rising Malevolence".

Appearances

 * The Clone Wars: Prelude
 * The Clone Wars: Shakedown
 * HoloNet News — A Galaxy Divided

Notes and references
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