

The axial superlaser was also the reason why the ship's helm was designed to be 15,000 meters, as the size allowed for the minimum space required to house the generators powering the superlaser.

Like the larger Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer, the Sovereign-class featured an axial superlaser on par with the Death Star. It could carry up to 400,000 metric tons of cargo and hosted a complement of 35 TIE/IN interceptor squadrons, five TIE/sa bomber squadrons, and 75 All Terrain Armored Transports.Ī Sovereign-class Super Star Destroyer carried five years' worth of consumables and could carry 130,100 troops. During development, it was estimated to require a crew of 600,000.

The Sovereign-class hosted a crew of 601,670, with 4,075 gunners, and required a skeleton crew of at least 86,000. The Sovereign-class Super Star Destroyer, alternatively named the Sovereign-class Star Destroyer, was a Super Star Destroyer produced by the Galactic Empire at the behest of the Emperor Palpatine, who envisioned a fleet of the fifteen-thousand-meter-long vessels.Ī Super Star Destroyer variant measuring fifteen thousand meters long, the Sovereign-class was classified as a dreadnaught under the Anaxes War College system.
