Fiction:Star Destroyer

A Star Destroyer is a type of warship characterised by its long and pointed, usually dagger-shaped, hull. The main purpose of this shape is so that firepower can be both delivered in powerful broadsides and focused beyond the front of the vessel, at the cost of having a less defended rear. Star Destroyers are mostly associated with the starfleets of the, although they are used throughout the Gigaquadrant.

In the narrowest sense, "Star Destroyer" refers to ships filling a particular role, primarily ship-to-ship and space-to-ground combat with limited carrier and troop transport capacity, typically between one and three kilometres in length. In the broader sense, Star Destroyers include any vessel that utilises a dagger-like shape for the same purposes, from frigates such as the Acclamator-class troop transport to far larger star dreadnoughts such as the Executor-class command ship.

Cyrandia Star Destroyers
Befitting for the galaxy most associated with the Star Destroyer design, the earliest known vessels of the type were from the, where the Phaedric Empire used them in their wars against the from the 46th to 24th millennia BNE. However, there is no sign of continuity between these and later ship classes. The modern Star Destroyers of Cyrannus trace their roots back to the, who used them from at least their war against the in 10640 BNE, and the closely related  in the 6th millennium BNE. Later designs, such as the Capricorn-class, were deployed by the.

Apparently independently, the s of the developed Star Destroyers some time prior to the First Galactic War in 04 BQF. From this time onwards, interactions between the nations of Cyrannus and the Quadrants influenced the design of further Star Destroyer classes used by, the and the , and later the  and. Particularly iconic Star Destroyers used during this time include the Venator and Imperator classes.

Plazithian Star Destroyers
From the, the fields the Monitor-class Star Destroyer, which mainly functions as a transport or escort ship, while the Star-class Dreadnought possesses a front similarly pointed to that of a Star Destroyer but much thicker.

The developed a variety of Star Destroyers remarkably similar to Cyrannian designs. Further new classes were used by the and  before their destruction in the.

Native to Milky Way's satellite Girdo, the used the Imperium-class capital ship, an elongated pyramid-shaped variant on the Star Destroyer concept. The same design is still used by.

During the New Grox Wars, the was inspired by the largest vessels of the DCP and Girdo Empire to develop their own class of Star Destroyer, although these functioned more like mobile battle stations.

Trivia

 * Based, to varying degrees, on the Star Destroyers of the Star Wars franchise.