The Comically Huge Star Destroyers of the Empire Fully Explained
65K views · Aug 10, 2026 · Film & Animation
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@geetslys · 2 months ago · pinned
Some very expensive intimidation. Worth or nah?
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@nie_jestem_filip_2137 · 1 month ago
"Do you think maybe he's compensating for something?"<br>~ Shrek, on Tarkin's love for very big ships
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@DarthVages · 1 month ago
"If the Empire knew how to build smart—not just big—they would have made thousands more Interdictors. If they had, we might not have survived." ―Leia Organa
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@stargatecommand714 · 1 month ago
"I look at the state of the Empire and ask myself, 'How many Super Star Destroyers could we have made with the resources we threw into Tarkin's Folly?'" --General Cassio Tagge
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@jamiewalsh3349 · 1 month ago (edited)
"The Empire. Our ships are big triangles." - Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
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@vinny7265 · 1 month ago
"Kuat Drive Yards! One more huge star destroyer please!" --- The Empire
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@airplanemaster1 · 1 month ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htSUfGls_aA&t=203">3:23</a> "Star Destroyers were capital ships between 1000 and 2000 <b>KILOMETERS</b> in length..."
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@Spectacular_Insanity · 1 month ago
I love how even to this day, people still use Star Wars Rebellion game screenshots for stock images for a bunch of ship types.
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@davidordaz5251 · 1 month ago (edited)
Honestly the death star or death ball seems more like a Star destroyer than a actual capital ship like star destroyer.
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@akumaking1 · 1 month ago
Make sure everybody gives credit to FractalSponge; <br>His work was canonized and recognized as amazing by George Lucas.
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@SES77 · 1 month ago
The Tector class would have made much more sense to upgrade with the Imperial II's weapons compliment. I mean, if youre going to basically go full send on firepower. Go full send and upgrade the ship already bascially designed for it.
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@RotalHenricsson · 1 month ago
If i've learned one singular thing from Gordon Ramsay it's that this menu is entirely too bloated.
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