DESB Showcase: Liberator and Emancipator

[Illuminatus Primus]

To give them a special advantage, some new features were to be added, including beefed-up weapons and sensors. Renamed the Liberator and the Emancipator, they were intended to play a vital role in the Borderland campaign, on the edge of Republic and Imperial space. The two Star Destroyers were holed up in the secret Hast Shipyards; however, the shipyards didn't remain a secret for long, as Imperial spies uncovered their location. The Hast Shipyards were a repair center, where damaged starships were rebuilt and refitted for combat duty. The Empire's sudden and brutal attack devastated the shipyards, nearly destroying the Star Destroyers and also damaging a large portion of the Rebel fleet—over 20 corvettes, five Nebulon-Bs and no less than seven Mon Cal MC80 cruisers were put out of commission in that battle. Casualties numbered in the thousands.

Suddenly, the repair of the Star Destroyers took a backseat to repairing the numerous other line ships that had been damaged in the battle. The Republic, always short on vessels, found itself critically short on combat ships, cutting short a planned campaign against what remained of the Empire (this single assault by the Empire helped throw the Republic's plans several years behind schedule).

It took a full five years for the Star Destroyers to be refitted for duty. They were nearly complete when Grand Admiral Thrawn's offensive began, further delaying the activation of the ships. Finally, after Thrawn was defeated, the ships were quietly put into service. With Lando Calrissian back in the Republic's military, he urged that the ships be put to their original use: spying on the Empire and stirring up trouble among the feuding factions.

Problem: The NRS Emancipator was very operational two and a half years after the Battle of Endor at the Battle of Borleias. And by the way, how was the Emancipator's believed ability to burn through the Blackmoon shield rationalized?

[Ender]

AFAIK, rational is that the delay in time was disinformation to throw off the imperials - they knew ISDs had been captured, but if they thought them destroyed at the attack then the Alliance could use them for their spy missions.

And the Blackmoon incident I presume that the original facility had a smaller and weaker generator then the Hoth base did, so they underestimated maximum shield strength.

[FTeik]

Ouch!!!

Five years to repair and refit 2 ISDs and the loss of 7 MC-Cruisers and a shipyard means a setback of years.

And i thought the 200 Dreadnoughts of the Katana-fleet done by Zahn were minimalistic.

[Illuminatus Primus]

Probably propoganda to excuse why they sat on their ass and let the militarily superior Empire tear itself apart rather than liberating poor oppressed peoples and whatnot combined with the kind of schedule and logistics red tape which got caught up by this and delayed assaults, delaying troop movements, which interrupt offensives, and so on and so forth.

[phongn]

I figured that it caused a huge cascade failure in terms of fleet refitting schedules, new ships, repairing, logistics and such.