Seeing the asteroid, Gideon Tarkin froze for a moment before realizing what he was looking at. "Is that... an asteroid? No, there are structures ahead of it. Could it be a spaceship?"
"That's right. It's a dreadnought—the Eye of Palpatine." Wilhuff Tarkin said. "After that bastard Orson Krennic framed me, His Majesty the Emperor temporarily assigned me to this dreadnought project to oversee its construction. At the time, it was already nearing completion."
"Can it stand against the Destruction battleship?" Gideon Tarkin asked.
"First, you need to understand that this thing has a rather irregular shape. Its overall length is similar to an Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, around 19,000 meters, but its volume is four times greater. The Eye of Palpatine uses the same model of engines as the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer, but it has three sets installed. One provides propulsion, one supplies power specifically to the Deflector Shield, and the final set serves this." Wilhuff Tarkin pointed to a location on the holographic projection.
Gideon Tarkin studied this so-called dreadnought. It truly looked like a potato-shaped asteroid. If it was around 19,000 meters long, then its height was roughly 11,000 meters. Its gray-black surface was covered in craters. If not for the structures at its foremost end, no one would believe it was a warship.
And it did not look particularly formidable.
The place Wilhuff Tarkin pointed to was a dish-shaped structure in the middle of the warship's forward buildings. However, the dish was not smooth. Eight laser emitters surrounded it, while a long, narrow targeting device stood at its center. Its shape made it look more like a flower.
"This is its main cannon?" Gideon Tarkin asked.
"That's right. There's nothing fancy about it—just extremely powerful laser emitters. Guided by the central targeting device, the lasers fired