Persecutor

Type: Star Destroyer Model: Imperial Class Captain: Captain of the Line Vladis Crew: Flight Lieutenant Kreyn Tash 3,000 Imperial Navy Officers 25,000 Imperial Navy Personnel 5,000 Imperial Navy Troopers 4,000 Imperial Army Troopers 1,000 Stormtroopers Complement: 60 TIE Fighters 12 TIE Bombers 6 Lambda class Shuttles 4 Drop Ships Weapons: Heavy turbolasers, Medium turbolasers, Light turbolasers, Ion Cannon, Heavy Tractor Beam

One of twelve Imperial Class Star Destroyers assigned to the 145th Squadron, the Persecutor was a frequent sight through the Savarkar Sector. Its commanding officer, Captain of the Line Vladis, sometimes led a squadron of smaller vessels from his ship bridge. Even when unaccompanied, the Persecutor was an extremely potent weapon of war, capable of devastating small planets or large space stations with its heavy duty turbolasers. It was a frequent sight at Vulture Station and Gowda Beacon, but its home port was the Imperial Navy base at Disentis.

As if its power as a space combatant was not sufficient, the Persecutor carried a force of 10,000 ground troops, including a full division of Imperial Navy Troopers, a half-division of Imperial Army Troopers complete with heavy equipment such as AT-ST and AT-AT walkers, and a half brigade of Stormtroopers for boarding operations. Flight Lieutenant Kreyn Tash was also assigned to the Persecutor as the commander of the 4th TIE-LN Wing.

A year ago, the Persecutor served as the Imperial flagship during the Battle of Adjani. It was damaged when a smuggler freighter crashed into its ion engines, and further damaged when a bomb was detonated inside one of its shuttle bays by the smuggler Aster, who had managed to make it aboard by flying a salvaged TIE Fighter and pretending to be one of the Persecutors own complement. Although the bomb damage did not breach the ship's structural integrity, it caused the bridge to completely lose control of the engines. The Persecutor began to descend into the planetoid's atmosphere, and the crew were forced to evacuate onto other Imperial vessels. After nearly half an hour of uncontrolled flight, the Persecutor entered Adjani's atmosphere and began to burn up. After an hour of descent, its engines detonated, raining debris over the planetoid's surface.