Eminence (Carrack-class)

The Eminence was a aging Carrack-class cruiser that served in the Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War. In 4 ABY, the Eminence served as part of the Imperial fleet that defended the second Death Star&mdash;an Imperial superweapon capable of destroying entire planets&mdash;during the final stages of its construction above the forest moon of Endor. The Rebel Alliance, having learned of the battlestation's construction and Emperor Palpatine's presence aboard the station, launched an assault on the superweapon with the intent of destroying it. During the battle, as the Imperial Navy engaged the Alliance Fleet in ship-to-ship combat, the Eminence engaged the gunship] [[Braha'tok, a ship less than one third of the cruiser's size. However, as the Eminence closed in on the Braha'tok, the gunship's sister ship, the Torktarak, attacked the Eminence from behind, destroying the old Imperial warship.

Description
The Eminence was an old Carrack-class cruiser in the Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. It was manufactured by Damorian Manufacturing Corporation, and was 350 meters long. The Eminence was equipped with enough offensive weaponry capable of dealing serious damage to a Dornean Braha'tok-class gunship.

History
In 4 ABY, during the height of the Galactic Civil War, the Eminence was stationed in the Endor system as part of a large Imperial fleet under the command of Admiral Firmus Piett. The fleet was tasked with defending the second Death Star, an Imperial superweapon under construction over the forest moon of Endor that was capable of destroying entire planets. Emperor Palpatine, who was currently on the Death Star, predicted that the Rebel Alliance's fleet would attack the Death Star while they had the chance to destroy the superweapon before it was done, and devised a plan to stop them.

Palpatine's prediction came true, and the Alliance fleet, under the commmand of the Mon Calamari Admiral Ackbar, launched a full scale assault on the Death Star. However, when the Alliance fleet came out of hyperspace in the Endor system, they were caught in a Emperor's trap. The Rebels' discovered that the deflector shield protecting the Death Star, which was supposed to have been taken down by a strike team that had already landed on Endor, was still up. Also, the Alliance fleet was met by the Eminence and the rest of the large Imperial fleet, which trapped the Rebels in the system.

During the ensuing battle, the MC80 Liberty type Star Cruiser Liberty was destroyed by the Death Star's fully functional superlaser, and the Eminence attempted to attack the Alliance rescue crafts tasked with picking up survivors from the Liberty. However, the Imperial warship was engaged by the Dornean Braha'tok-class gunship, the Braha'tok, a ship less than a third of the size of the Eminence. The Braha'tok was able to hold off the Eminence, taking major damage in the process, until a second Braha'tok-class ship, the Torktarak, attacked Eminence from behind. The firepower from both Alliance gunships overwhelmed the Eminence and destroyed the aging Imperial vessel.

The Alliance fleet eventually destroyed the second Death Star and won the battle after the superweapon's shields were finally disabled by the ground team on Endor.

Behind the scenes
The Eminence was created by Ello137 in his winning entry in the StarWars.com Hyperspace feature, "What's the Story?". "What's the Story?" allowed fans to provide the backstory for certain aspects of the saga; in this case, the Braha'tok-class gunships. The information on the Eminence from Ello137's entry was later used in the entry on the Braha'tok-class gunship in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

Originally, Ello137 intended to represent in his entry the Eminence, a craft identified in The Essential Chronology having fought at the Battle of ThonBoka. However, after submitting it, he discovered that that ship was actually a Star Destroyer, not a Carrack-class cruiser. Ello137 attempted to resubmit his entry, this time using the Integrity from Matthew Stover's novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. However, Ello137's first entry was chosen by Star Wars.com, creating the Carrack-class cruiser Eminence.