u/TwoFit3921

/// INTRODUCTION ///

Congratulations on your promotion, Admiral ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ! In this time of strife, in a galaxy still reeling from the fading fires of the Galactic Empire, you have successfully risen to the rank of Admiral in the New Republic Defense Force! In light of your new position, you have been assigned a task, seemingly unknown to your peers, but important all the same.

You must hunt down and destroy the Arquitens. While the name initially gives you pause, do not let it fool you - this ship is a well-renowned workhorse of the Galactic Empire, and for good reason. You must not underestimate it, and do everything in your power to destroy the ship, to stop the spread of Imperial tyranny still prevalent in the Outer Rim.

To accomplish this, High Command has given you a generous allotment of ships, all beholden to your will. Do with them as you see fit, but remember, our resources have their limits.

Good luck, Admiral ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ .

/// RULES ///

You may not utilize any superweapons.

You may not use ships from >!the First Order or Sith Eternal!<.

Divisions will be comprised of ships of the same class or category... but you could probably do something like 1 Imperator division and 1 Liberty division if you feel like it. Just don't expect it to be too efficient.

Depending on how light or heavy a ship is in its weight class, you may only fit 4 (heavy) to 6 (light) ships per division. Divisions of lighter ships are allotted more vessels.

Dedicated carriers split off into their own divisions, pulling away from the divisions of the weight class they belong to (Ex. 1 Secutor division uses up 1 Heavy DESDIV, becoming 1 CARDIV).

/// FORCE COMPOSITION ///

You are allotted the following echelons for your Task Force:

- 90 Corvette Divisions (8 ships per CORDIV)

- 50 Frigate Divisions (4-8 ships per FRIDIV)

• (Need them, you probably will not.)

- 11 Destroyer Divisions (4-6 ships per DESDIV)

- 3 Heavy Destroyer Divisions (4 ships per Heavy DESDIV)

• Can be swapped out for 6 more Medium/Light DESDIVs.

- 4 Cruiser Divisions (4 ships per CRUDIV)

• Heavy CRUDIVs are 2 ships instead of 4 (Ex. 1 Heavy CRUDIV composed of 2 MC80a Independence-class Heavy Star Cruiser - Independence being the class that Home One belongs to.)

^(no you're not getting a single BATDIV roflmao get fu)

For more information on what ship belongs in which weight class, please refer to the attached guide. For information about the fighter counts and roles of any Imperial vessels you may encounter/make use of, refer to this guide.

/// CONCLUSION ///

Now that you've picked your ships, named your task force, and are presumably gallivanting around the Outer Rim looking for your quarry, you have our greatest thanks and well wishes. For being one of the few willing to step up, and do what it takes to crush the symbol of a strong Imperial presence in the Rim with the resources given to you.

Good luck, Admiral ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ .

/// ENEMY VESSELS DETECTED ///

- 4 DESDIV (24 Tector-class Star Destroyers)

- 1 CRUDIV (2 Dominus-class Star Cruisers)

- 1 Executor-class Star Dreadnought ('Arquitens')

Now with more factions! Had to painfully make brand new banners (and fleets) for the Rebels, Republic, and CIS. Quite agonizing.

I never want to make another Rebel formation ever again.

Slight remake of the Imperial fleet over Jakku, now featuring the new Imperator, Dominator, and Vector sprites (and a slightly updated Venator). There is also a full version that I will probably post here... some day.

4,342 meters long, ~1,798 meters wide, and ~705 meters tall, the Dominus was a variant of the Compellor-class Star Cruiser, being built on the same frame but with a different mission statement in mind. While the Compellor is an expeditionary, able to run down hordes of lighter targets with its array of (relatively) lighter and faster-firing turbolasers, the Dominus is a true fleet cruiser, meant to chase down and nip at the heels of renegade Subjugators and Bulwarks with her fewer, but larger caliber turbolasers while relaying information (courtesy of her powerful sensor suites) to the rest of the battle line as it catches up.

Deprioritized due to the lack of demand for a cruiser that could beat the brakes off of peer ships (which the outnumbered Rebels were still holding as an ace up their sleeves), she would be overshadowed by the more versatile Compellor and Impellor Star Cruisers, which were much better-equipped to punch down the occasional Rebel formation. Consequently, the Dominus subclass remained an Azure Hammer oddity until after Endor, when the galaxy-wide fires of Rebellion were finally felt by the Core Worlds, and when CRUDIVs of 3.8km Independences suddenly became a very real threat to the struggling Imperial Navy.

Armament:

• 24 double heavy turbolaser turrets (320TT)
• 27 octuple heavy turbolaser turrets (40TT)
• 30 quad medium turbolaser turrets (200GT)
• 358 PD

Starfighter complement: 288

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^(Compellor) ^(by Fractalsponge,) ^(Dominus) ^((the heavy gun) ^(Compellor) ^(in this post by Nostrea))

>Erebus-class Star Monitor, "Warm Greetings"

>A Star Monitor repaired and maintained by one of the many planets nominally under the jurisdiction of the New Republic. Thanks to the decentralization of the military, many GCW and CW ships have found their way into the local defense fleets of various planetary governments, lessening their dependence on the wider NRDF for protection.

>This also means that they can largely customize their ships in any way they see fit. This particular polity has a fiercely independent streak, exemplified by the meticulously drawn symbol emblazoned on this Star Monitor's hull.

Star Monitor by Fractalsponge. Blank sprite by u/TrueSoren.

Hey, look, worldbuilding and a shitpost.

My banner submission for the sub, as promised. Features the Eclipse giving the Viscount the Battle of the Dreadnoughts treatment by superlasering it right down the middle, while their respective fleets duke it out.

Originally, this was supposed to just be a Battle of the Dreadnoughts reference wholesale, but I figured I might spice things up by adding more ships and making it a full pitched battle, since it is meant to be a banner.

I was gonna make different banners for different periods/timelines, but this was already tedious enough to make with the laser-fire and the explosions. Maybe...

AKA the Chel Grett.

>Lured by reports of increased pirate activity near the Dantooine system, a small NR scout force is ambushed by the FOSD Night Terror.

>Caught off-guard by the modified Imperator, and with communications being jammed by the two Indictor corvettes assigned to it, the New Republic ships are swiftly and silently wiped out, with only minimal pilot casualties from the fighters that managed to get airborne in time before being destroyed.

Quick thing I whipped up to show off some sprites, old and new.

In order:

Turbulent
Nebula
MC75
Recusant
Procursator
Venator
Providence
Vesper/Defender
Victory
Proclamator
Provocator

>Two lone Nebulas charged headlong into a larger and heavier Imperial DESRON while attempting to destroy a Dominator.

>The results speak for themselves.

/// WELCOME BACK, ADMIRAL ///

/// YOU HAVE ONE NEW FLEET PROPOSAL ///

>open file

/// OPENING FILE Life Squadron.txt... ///

/// Life Squadron (name work-in-progress) is intended to be a New Republic equivalent to the old Death Squadron formerly led by Darth Vader. It is large destroyer squadron centered around a battleship and two battlecruisers, much like Death Squadron's reported composition directly beofre [sic] the Battle of Endor.

COMPOSITION:

- 1x Viscount-class Star Defender ('Viscount')

• HANGAR COMPLEMENT TBA

- 1x Bulwark-class Star Battlecruiser

• HANGAR COMPLEMENT TBA

- 1x Praetor-class Star Battlecruiser

• HANGAR COMPLEMENT TBA

- 33x Republic-class Star Destroyers

• HANGAR COMPLEMENT TBA ///

>i've seen enough, close file

/// WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO? ///

>interesting idea but needs more work. and that name is awful. denied.

/// COMMODORE [REDACTED] WILL BE NOTIFIED OF THIS DECISION. ///

>i would hope so.

>logoff

/// LOGGING OUT... ///

///

Finally decided I would stop messing around with people (as highly amusing as it was) and just explain the pervasive ideas of "The Imperial/Imperator is analogous to a wet navy destroyer" or "The Executor is a battleship" that has consistently befuddled the members of this sub for... probably a year now?

It was fun, but I think it's time to finally explain it as simply as possible for people so that they can understand - with a diagram! Comes in Imperial and Rebel flavors.

You're welcome, by the way.

And because Reddit has absolutely shot the quality to pieces, I'm going to list down the ships that are too small to make out.
Imperial corvettes: Raider, Arquitens, Lancer, CR92a Assassin, Tartan, Vigil
Imperial frigates: Nebulon-B, Pursuit, Strike, Dreadnaught, Acclamator
Rebel/New Republic corvettes: CR90, Marauder, DP20, Sphyrna, Consular, Interceptor IV
Rebel/New Republic frigates: Sacheen, Nebulon-B, Dreadnaught, Assault Frigate Mk. II, MC30c

I guess you can consider this a sort of response to this post, and to explain my eccentric shitposts about ship classifications... anyways. Oh, one more thing: Fractal himself uses this system, or at least something very similar to it when classifying his ships.

So no, the Urbanus being a Star Cruiser is not supposed to be its own fuckshit class that dwarfs a Light Cruiser - it is a Light Cruiser. Because if I said "Light Star Cruiser" or "Heavy Star Frigate", you wouldn't get it, would you? Sometimes the Star is axed for brevity's sake, there's nothing more to it. Please note that Fractal also calls the Dreadnaught a Star Frigate.

Anaxes is a good introductory rating system, but if you actually want to make sense of SW ships... just don't use it. Because if I built a 19 kilometer long needle with the same width and depth as a Victory, would you call that a Dreadnought? Oh sure, you can call that an SSD to get around the question entirely, but at that point I can also call the Home One an SSD. I can call the Starhawk an SSD - it shares parts with the ISD and is much bigger, right? I can call the Raddus an SSD, I can call the Resurgent an SSD - but the movies don't do that. It's not supposed to be a proper military term (because Ackbar's concern at the moment isn't what the Executor's proper class is), so you can't use it in lieu of a proper classification system.

The nebulous ship classifications that Legends and Canon writers came up with in a futile attempt to patch up all the holes in how Star Wars ships are weighed has only exacerbated the damage.

I guess the first one counts as EAW fanart since it's a deliberate Thrawn's Revenge reference, so I'm flairing it as that.

(not to mention all of my silhouette posts mimicking the EAW minimap background and terrain whenever depicting planets)

The First Order's dreadnoughts:
- The Metatron (Assertor-class)

• A nigh-unstoppable battleship with no true equal in the galaxy. Not yet, at least...
• "You failed to dispose of me while you had the chance. Now it's my turn."

- The Eclipse (Executor-class)

• The Emperor's Imperial flagship, an expeditionary battlecruiser that has been with the First Order since the very beginning.
• "Shadows can hurt."

- The Arc Hammer (Arc Hammer-type)

• A massive factory ship from the Maw Installation that keeps the wheels of the First Order's war machine going through whatever means necessary. The blueprints for the Dark Troopers were not the only treasures hidden within its databanks.
• "WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR!?"

The Sith Eternal's dreadnoughts:
- The Eclipse (Eclipse-class)

• The culmination of Palpatine's megalomania, materialized in the form of a gargantuan battleship with a superlaser built into it. The ultimate achievement of the rule-by-turbolaser stratocracy that ran deep within the Empire's wretched, gaping abyss of a heart.
• Recovered from the Abhean Shipyards after the Greater Maldrood erroneously believed that it would be the mechanism by which they avenged the Empire. They would be swiftly and brutally disabused of such notions.
• "You fools thought the galaxy belonged to you?"

- The Ceaseless Wheel (Vengeance-class)

• Envisioned as a lighter, faster counterpart to the Executor-class, the crew of this particular Vengeance would come into contact with the Sith Eternal during the Empire's decline into several warlord states. They did not hesitate to join them.
• Its crew only live to carry out Darth Sidious's will. Their loyalty and dedication to Palpatine is unshakeable, even in comparison to men who were born on Exegol to begin with.
• "Yes. While the galaxy doubts and questions, we know exactly what we are."

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Subject to change. Now features a new Eclipse sprite (model from Thrawn's Revenge), a slightly more accurate Arc Hammer sprite, and slightly brighter colors for the First Order.

HE ATE THEM:

- 1x Imperial-class Star Battleship

• battleshi

- 5x Interdictor-class Star Battleship

• battleshi

- 3x Victory I-class Star Destroyer

• better than eye-es-dee more smarter to use
• why overmatch enemie and win fastly when you can handicap yourself by using shitter smamller ship to fight for longer

- 6x Borg Sphere

• can fire in all directions so no need to worri about firig liness

- 22x Strike-class medium cruiser

• it's mod ul ar so i is instantly better

- 14x Ton-Falk-class escort carrier

• space potato

- 1x Arquitens-class command cruiser

• do you know what killed the dinosaurs?

- 80x Lancer-class frigate

• no more rebel fighterslop

- 56x Raider-class corvettes

• this video was sponored by aids shadow legend

YUOR ENEMY IS:

- 1x MC80a Home One-type Heavy Star Cruiser (3.8km)

• that will fucking kill yuo because 1 ISD and a hundred corvettes realistically isn't making even a single dent in it because its reactor is too strong and its shields are too tough to crack with your lack of actual firepower