Superior

"What's the name of the other Star Destroyer? Do you recognize it?''" "It's pretty banged up, but I think it's the Superior''."

- Jedi Knights Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade Skywalker

Superior was an Imperial-class Star Destroyer belonging to the Imperial Remnant's naval fleet. In 28 ABY, during the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Superior participated in the Battle of Bastion, where the Yuuzhan Vong species assaulted the Imperial's capital of the Sartinaynian system. Fighting alongside the Chimaera over a gas giant in the star system, the Superior was ravaged by the attacks of Yuuzhan Vong star ships, and the Star Destroyer's wreck was lost as it fell into the gas giant's atmosphere.

Description
As an Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the Superior measured 1,600 meters in length and was produced by the company Kuat Drive Yards.

History
As of the year 28 ABY, the Superior served in the fleet of the Imperial Remnant, a government ruling over an area of the Outer Rim Territories of the galaxy. At that time, the galaxy was experiencing the Yuuzhan Vong War, where the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong species invaded the galaxy in order to conquer it. Although the Yuuzhan Vong initially ignored the Imperial Remnant, in 28 ABY the invaders assaulted the Sartinaynian system, and the Imperial capital planet of Bastion there, in the Battle of Bastion. During the battle, after the Imperial forces were forced to retreat from Bastion, the Superior and the Star Destroyer Chimaera, helmed by Imperial Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon, fought a substantial Yuuzhan Vong group amongst the moons of a gas giant in the star system.

Although aided by multiple support vessels, the Superior and the Chimaera sustained heavy damage, and due to the Yuuzhan Vong forces arrayed against them, the pair of Star Destroyers never made it to the planet Yaga Minor, where the Imperial Remnant was regrouping. With the Superior hull holed with craters and in flames, Pellaeon ordered the evacuation of the capital ship as the Superior succumbed to the gravity of the gas giant and plunged into the atmosphere. Though the Chimaera was nearly destroyed in the battle like the Superior, the Imperials managed to get Pellaeon, gravely wounded, to Yaga Minor in a medical frigate that carried the survivors of Superior; the medical frigate made it out of the Sartinaynian system unscathed by using the wreckage of the Superior as cover as the Star Destroyer fell towards the gas giant.

Behind the scenes
The Superior first appeared in Force Heretic I: Remnant, a New Jedi Order novel written by Shane Dix and Sean Williams, and released in 2003.

Appearances

 * The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant