Pursuit-class light cruiser

Pursuit-class light cruiser "It's only a light cruiser&hellip; not in the full Star-Destroyer class!"

- Han Solo

The Pursuit-class light cruiser was a type of capital ship in the Imperial Navy.

Characteristics
"Or that one of the Empire's Pursuit-class cruisers would immediately hop on our tails, intent upon nailing us as the Rebel pirates?!"

- Han Solo



It resembled a small variant of the more common Star Destroyers that the Galactic Empire used, although the main hull was a rather flat, square-bowed platform rather than a deep-keeled dagger. The main engines were mounted in the superstructure rising above the hull platform at the rear, which was topped by a row of sensor globes.

The primary armament consisted of two weapons turrets, perhaps turbolasers, mounted ahead of the superstructure, which were probably supplemented by other weapons in less prominent emplacements.

The Pursuit-class cruiser had docking bay capable of launching several TIE series starfighters and was sometimes equipped with more potent TIE Advanced x1 starfighters. In open space, the cruiser's straight-line acceleration seems to have been slightly below that of Millennium Falcon.

History
The class was used and well-known in the year following the Battle of Yavin. One vessel was used as a command ship by Commander Strom in his sector near the Wheel, but little more is known about the design's service history.

Appearances

 * Star Wars 18: The Empire Strikes
 * Star Wars 19: The Ultimate Gamble
 * Star Wars 20: Deathgame
 * Star Wars 23: Flight into Fury