I haven't seen jack shit as to how it operates as a destroyer. You point out size, but the ISD out sizes a Immobilizer 418 that is built on a standard heavy-cruiser hull. It out sizes the Carrack cruiser. It outsizes just about everything except for Imperial super ships, namely Executer's and what ever Greil's ship was named.Illuminatus Primus wrote:In relation to the KDY big-ass ship armadas, it serves as a destroyer. That it is a multi-role craft and is a cruiser against tiny picket ships and Rebel crap, doesn't change the design and concept intention. The ISD can serve in a cruiser role, but as far as the Starfleet and KDY was concerned, it is a destroyer.Knife wrote:Its function doesn't match that of a classical destroyer. You can state various ships that are bigger than an ISD, good. Now state the ships that perform in a destroyer role and the ISD isn't one of them.
If you have to peg it to a WWI or WWII model, its a cruiser. But cruiser works better as the older varient. Quick and medium armed (for their level). Destroyer, it is not.
In the movie's the ISD was used as the ship of the line and not an escort except in the case of the Executor and that was the Command ship so even that doesn't indicate that the ISD is a destroyer.