Troop quarters were located on the lower frontal section of the vessel, in front of the hangar areas. The hangars were located at the sides of the vessel, with the fore and aft launch bays closely spaced underneath this area, towards the middle of the ship.Įach ship of the class was crewed by over 700,000 personnel, and Eclipse II also carried a complement of Shadow Droid starfighters. The Eclipse-class was more mobile than the Death Star, being equipped with both an enhanced hyperdrive and fast sublight engines.Īn Eclipse-class vessel carried 600 TIE/IN interceptors and 96 TIE Bombers, divided into 58 squadrons for ground assault, they carried 150,000 Imperial soldiers, 100 AT-ATs, and five prefabricated bases. In addition to its firepower, the Eclipse-class's armor and shields were so powerful that it could ram enemy ships without any risk of taking damage, and without hesitance. Additionally, these behemoths were armed with hundreds of heavy laser and turbolaser mountings. This included gravity well projectors and improved ion cannons.
The class benefited from the most significant weaponry-improvements of the last few decades. The massive superlaser was more widely used to destroy enemy capital ships and space stations during combat. These weapons were capable of slashing through any planetary shield to crack open a planet's crust and sear entire continental landmasses. This superlaser was the pinnacle of Imperial destruction in their fleets.Īn Eclipse's superlaser easily had the power to destroy other Super Star Destroyers, as the Annihilator found out when Tyber Zann seized the Eclipse's incredible power above Kuat.ĭestroying other ships however, doesn't show the extent of the Eclipse's superlaser's power. The most deadly weapon carried by Eclipse-class ships was an axial superlaser, similar to but significantly less powerful than one of the component beams used in the Death Star's superlaser. Its size in addition was also large enough for it to also be classified as a space station. Although technically being dwarfed in length only by both the Executor-class Star Dreadnought and the Vengeance-class dreadnought by 1.5 kilometers, the Eclipse-class nonetheless outranked even the Executor-class in terms of overall mass and volume. The Eclipse-class vessels were among the largest dreadnought-scale ships/Super Star Destroyers ever to be fielded within Galactic history.
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