Victory Star Destroyer - Definition and Overview

The Victory-class Star Destroyer is a type of fictional starship from the Star Wars universe. It was designed by Rendilli Stardrive in direct competition with Kuat Drive Yards, whose subcontractor Rothana Heavy Engineering had produced the successful Acclamator long-range military assault transport seen at Geonosis. They were the most powerful combatants of the Galactic Republic's military machine.

Victories are 900 meters long and possess two primary ion drives for sublight propulsion. However, they are somewhat sluggish spacecraft and even later refits never really fixed that design flaw. The first flight of ships was capable of independent flight in atmosphere; in one of the most infamous examples of this capability, then-Moff Tarkin landed his vessel on a crowd of protestors. The second flight was not capable of atmospheric transit.

Victory-Is included eighty concussion missile silos; the Victory-II deleted them. All ships carried two squadrons of starfighters. Presumably there are heavy weapons turrets flanking the command tower but they have never been explicitly shown in the official literature.

With the rise of the Empire, the Victory was replaced by the Imperial Star Destroyer, a much more capable design. Many Victories were sold off (many to the Corporate Sector) or decomissioned. After the end of the civil war, as the Imperial Class destroyer was too much a reminder of the Empire, the New Republic concentrated on developing ships based on the Victory Star Destroyer - which was seen as more of a product of the Galatic Republic that preceeded the Empire. The design lineage lives on in the Republic and Defender (also known as Nebula) Star Destroyers in service with the New Republic.

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