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It needs less overall crew and has superior computers (An advantage of constantly receiving computer upgrades while hidden within Coruscant), but can carry more troops and thousands of prisoners. Though The Lusankya had fewer heavy weapons than a typical Super Star Destroyer, it uses the saved space for extensive personnel quarters. 2.5.6 Tractor Beam, Battery (5 Gunners).2.5.5 Heavy Concussion Missile, Battery (5 Gunners).2.5.4 Heavy Ion Cannon, Battery (5 Gunners).

2.5.3 Laser Cannon, Point-Defense, Battery (5 Gunners).

2.5.1 Heavy Turbolaser, Battery (5 Gunners).

During the Yuuzhan Vong Invasion, The Lusankya suffered extensive damage and was stripped of weapons and turned into a suicide weapon to destroy the largest Vong Koros-Strohna Worldship. For twenty years the ship acted as a medical research and quarantine ship, a research vessel, and the command ship of an extensively built-up Rogue Squadron. Eventually she was defeated and killed, and The Lusankya entered the service of The New Republic. She built a command group around the ship and engaged in such gambits as the Bacta War. Exactly why the Emperor went to such great lengths to hide a Super Star Destroyer is unknown, though it's certainly possible that he intended the ship to serve as an emergency command vessel, should his throne world ever come under seige.Īs events occured, The Lusankya was used by intelligence officer Ysanne Isard to flee Coruscant after the Emperor's death.

The fact that a Super Star Destroyer was at the heart of the "Generator" was kept secret, allowing The Lusankya to serve as a secret prison facility.

The Lusankya was covered in a superframe of girders and electronics, then lowered onto Coruscant disguised as a massive planetary shield generator and it's repulsorlift cradle. By having all expenses for The Lusankya attributed to construction of The Executor, the Empire kept the existence of the second Super Star Destroyer secret from the galaxy at large. The Lusankya is The Executor's sister ship, with keel and final rivet finished at the same time as Vader's flagship. Reference Book: Star Wars Saga Edition Starships of the Galaxy