1102, A Confused Rising Star
"Conqueror-class? You mean the Malevolence?" Sefrans Tann was finally moved, even showing a hint of delight.
"That's right. A sister ship of the Malevolence, the second Conqueror-class battleship, the Destruction. This will also be your new flagship," Count Dooku said. "Five Conqueror-class ships are planned, with three more still under construction. The second ship, Destruction, began construction earlier, so its specifications differ little from those of the lead ship, Malevolence."
Sefrans Tann nodded. Only then did she understand that the immense central platform her shuttle had passed over upon arrival was not the entrance to the shipyard, but the entrance to this super warship, 4,825 meters long!
The ship's length... it was the kind of length that would take an ordinary person nearly an hour to run from bow to stern, and would make a certain mirror die halfway there!
Although it could not compare to the 14,100-meter Ragnarok-class Titan warship Plague that she had commanded before, the Plague was essentially just brute force overwhelming all else. The waste of resources involved in building it meant the Fourth Civilization had no intention of rebuilding it. Besides, it had only been built before the war.
In truth, the Conqueror-class battleship posed a far greater threat to the Galactic Republic fleet than the Plague did!
Even if the Plague was fully loaded, it only carried a dozen or twenty rounds for its ultra-ultra-ultra-super electromagnetic cannon. The Republic Fleet was much more flexible now and did not have that many high-value targets for it to shoot at. At most, it could destroy twenty Hunter Class ships, or perhaps some outdated Commander-class vessels...
But that was no longer enough, because the 8,000-meter Commander II-class Dreadnoughts that Kuat Drive Yards had just begun producing had been redesigned and upgraded. The