Naval warfare

"With the Clone Wars' end, the destruction of the Jedi Order, and the decommissioning of the Kaminoan cloning facilities, the self-proclaimed Emperor and his military advisers determined that the future of warfare was in large-scale naval weaponry—in a fleet of battleships and battle stations that could atomize any enemy, whether on a planet's surface or among the stars."

―Mon Mothma^[src]

the Alliance Fleet and the Imperial Navy engage each other in Corellian space

Naval warfare,^[1] also known as space combat,^[2] or space warfare,^[3] was the waging of armed conflict in realspace. It included space-to-space and space-to-ground engagements,^[1] and involved specialized starships collectively referred to as warships.^[4]