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== Katana Fleet ==
== Katana Fleet ==
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A modestly sized prestige fleet created by the [[Old Republic]], the Katana Fleet was composed solely of modernized and heavily automated dreadnaughts. The renown of this so-called "dark fleet" remains unexplained, but may relate to hopes of the Katana Fleet's technology eventually seeing widespread use, reducing the crew requirements of older Republic vessels.
 
This heavy automation came with a price, however: driven to insanity by a virus, crewmembers on the flagship ordered the entire fleet to simultaneously jump to hyperspace, a disaster made possible through the pervasive use of slave circuits.
 
The Katana Fleet resurfaced in 9 ABY, where its elements were largely claimed by forces under [[Grand Admiral Thrawn]].
 
== Modernization ==
 
Despite the Katana Fleet disaster, a lack of capital ships forced the Rebellion to adopt their own conversion programme. This resulted in the so-called [[Assault Frigate]], an overall more capable vessel.


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the katana fleet was a fleet of 200 dreadnaughts, the fleet was unique as they were the first ships to be run by lots of slaves doing small jobs to keep the ships going and not run by a single master computer, the fleet was lost when a slave managed to get a horrible disease that caused madness, this was spread throughout the entire fleet and everyone on the ships was killed, but just before they all died, one person on the flagship of the fleet (the katana) sent the entire fleet into hyperspace. it was found quite a while later (by accident) by the smuggler talon karrde, he and his crew had made a blind jump to escape from some imperials, they found several dreadnaughts at the location they came out of hyperspace at, only karrde realised what they had stumbled across, karrde memorised the coordinates and wiped it from the computer. 5 years after the battle of endor, the imperial grand admiral thrawn tracked the katana fleet to karrde, he tried to get the fleet's location from karrde, but karrde was rescued by jedi luke skywalker and, karrde's subordonate, mara jade. karrde gave the location of the fleet to the new republic. but when they got to it, there were only 15 ships left, thrawn had found the coordonates off the captain of karrde's crew when he found the fleet. the new republic then had to fight 2 victory-class star destroyers to stop them from getting the last 15 ships.

Revision as of 20:19, 4 August 2010

The Dreadnought was an older class of capital ship that served under the Old Republic six hundred meters in length. Despite being out of date, they remained in service in the Imperial Navy as a second line craft and by the Rebel Alliance through the Galactic Civil War. It was over-crewed for its size, and perhaps the most hilariously miss-named ship ever in the history of the Star Wars universe.

Katana Fleet

A modestly sized prestige fleet created by the Old Republic, the Katana Fleet was composed solely of modernized and heavily automated dreadnaughts. The renown of this so-called "dark fleet" remains unexplained, but may relate to hopes of the Katana Fleet's technology eventually seeing widespread use, reducing the crew requirements of older Republic vessels.

This heavy automation came with a price, however: driven to insanity by a virus, crewmembers on the flagship ordered the entire fleet to simultaneously jump to hyperspace, a disaster made possible through the pervasive use of slave circuits.

The Katana Fleet resurfaced in 9 ABY, where its elements were largely claimed by forces under Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Modernization

Despite the Katana Fleet disaster, a lack of capital ships forced the Rebellion to adopt their own conversion programme. This resulted in the so-called Assault Frigate, an overall more capable vessel.