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Illuminatus Primus

Pelleaon was just a flat-out failure. He fucked up everytime he fought the Rebels except one engagement. He inherited a pitiful 8-sector shithole because everyone else to rule died.

I don't like the following novels after Thrawn. In fact, I hate the EU novels except a few. Thrawn Trilogy in that list, all the others after it - in the Hate List.
So I remember Pellaeon from the TT, not the "killed by defeats" guy later on.

Stas Bush wrote:So I remember Pellaeon from the TT, not the "killed by defeats" guy later on.

He was a sidekick who sat about making "generic Imperial" comments who was around because the Grand Admiral couldn't be bothered to find a real second-in-command.

Sure, he was. Yet he was nice in that role. Not in the role of the "commander in chief".

To me it's always been a simple case of calling it an "Imperial" Star Destroyer as a designation of who owned it. And as far as the Super Class go i'd taken Super Star Destroyer just to mean it was a larger Star Destroyer. This seems common sense to me.

Darth Pounder wrote:To me it's always been a simple case of calling it an "Imperial" Star Destroyer as a designation of who owned it. And as far as the Super Class go i'd taken Super Star Destroyer just to mean it was a larger Star Destroyer. This seems common sense to me.

But "Star Destroyer" is a specific kind of ship and the ISD and the ECS are in no way related in class or type or role.

Hmm, I always thought the SSD is just sleng meaning imperial starship bigger than ISD (e.g. Allegiance, Eclipse, Executor, Sovereign all belong to different classes, but nicknamed SSD just because of being > ISD). So there is no Super-class. It's an EU definition error. Just sleng.

I've always understood "Star Destroyer" as "Destroyer of Stars" -- a warship powerful enough to destroy a star (or at least named by someone who wished to imply that it could), rather than as a space equivalent of a naval destroyer.

"Star Destroyer" might simply be the brand name KDY uses for its warships; "Super Star Destroyer" could then be rationalized Rebel slang for any KDY Star Destroyer more powerful than the commonly encountered Imperator-class.

All incorrect.

There are canon "Star Cruisers" and Rendili StarDrive produced the Republic, Nebula, and Victory-class Star Destroyers.

"Super Star Destroyer" seems to be a colloquialism any larger-than-ISD vessel that is performing a command and mothership role.

The fact that there are "Star Cruisers" does not prove that "Star Destroyer" refers to a naval destroyer equivalent.

I concede the KDY brand name theory.

Err... When did "Allegiance" and "Sovereign" class SD's turn up?

Illuminatus Primus wrote:

Darth Pounder wrote:To me it's always been a simple case of calling it an "Imperial" Star Destroyer as a designation of who owned it. And as far as the Super Class go i'd taken Super Star Destroyer just to mean it was a larger Star Destroyer. This seems common sense to me.

But "Star Destroyer" is a specific kind of ship and the ISD and the ECS are in no way related in class or type or role.

Not necessarially there are Victory and Imperiator classes of Star Destroyer at the time. At the time of the OT the Empire was selling some of it's surplus Vics to the Corprate Sector. There fore I always took "Imperial Star Destroyer" to mean a Star Destroyer controled by the Imperial Navy.

The Nebula, Republic, and Victory classes were all under either the NRDF or the old Republic Planetary Security Forces.