Fleet Manual: Super-class Star Destroyer (SSD)

 

Name: Super Star Destroyer (SSD)
Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards
In Use By: Empire
Type: Battleship
Crew: 279,144 Crew, 1,590 Gunners, 60,000 Stormtroopers
Fighters: 12 Squadrons
Support Craft: 20 Lambda-Class Imperial Shuttles, 15 Assault Shuttles, 10 Assault Gunboats (200 Combat and Support Craft in total), 25 AT-AT Walkers, 50 AT-ST Walkers, 3 Pre-fabricated Garrison Bases
Length: 18 km.
Cargo: 250,000 Metric Tons; Consumables: 6 Years
Description: Super heavy starship. The SSD is the equivalent of an entire fleet of Imperial class Star Destroyers. It carries twelve starfighter squadrons.

 

 
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Name: Kuat Drive Yards Super-class Star Destroyer
Weaponary: 1800 Taim & Bak Turbolaser Batteries (class 7)
1800 Taim & Bak Heavy Turbolaser Batteries (class 10)
1800 Krupx Concussion Missile Launchers
1800 Borstel Ion Cannon Batteries (class 4)
300 Phylon Tractor Beam Projectors (class 9)
 
Except for the Death Star battle station [and the Eclipse and Sovereign classes of Super Star Destroyers], the Super-class Star Destroyer is the largest warship ever constructed. Five times the length of an Imperial Star Destroyer, each carries more than a quarter million troops and crew.

Over 1,000 turbolaser batteries, ion cannons, and tractor beam emplacements dot the eight kilometre length. These vessels are like a fleet unto themselves. Twelve squadrons of TIE class fighters (two wings) await within the huge confines of the massive ship. Other carried vessels bring the total aboard the Super Star Destroyer to over 200 ships.

Even more weapons of destruction are within the Super Star Destroyer, including a full corps of stormtroopers and other soldiers, 25 AT-AT walkers, 50 AT-STs, and various other ground assault vehicles. In addition, the ship carries three pre-fabricated garrison bases for immediate deployment.

The Super-class Star Destroyer is the dream of the Emperor and the epitome of his new navy. It represents the best and newest vessel available in the Imperial inventory. It is a command ship, a spacegoing headquarters from which to guide planetary invasions, space battles, and the like.

Four of these massive vessels are now in service. The first ship of the line, the Executor, was presented to Lord Darth Vader by the Emperor to serve as his personal flagship, but was destroyed by the Rebel Alliance at the Battle of Endor. In honor and tribute to this once mighty ship, Grand Moff Salth Khan ordered the construction of a new Super-class Star Destroyer to serve as his primary flagship and combat operations center for the Imperial Directorate fleets. The newest addition to the Home Guard Fleet and the SSD line was aptly named the Executor-II.

The three known names of other line SSDs currently or formerly serving the Imperial Navy, as posted in previously published Star Wars materials, are as follows: SSD Allegiance, SSD Guardian and SSD Ironfist

    Sources:
  • Gorden, Greg. Imperial Sourcebook. West End Games. June 1994