This included gravity well projectors and improved ion cannons. The class benefited from the most significant weaponry-improvements of the last few decades. The massive superlaser was more widely used to destroy enemy capital ships and space stations during combat. These weapons were capable of slashing through any planetary shield to crack open a planet's crust and sear entire continental landmasses. This superlaser was the pinnacle of Imperial destruction in their fleets.Īn Eclipse's superlaser easily had the power to destroy other Super Star Destroyers, as the Annihilator found out when Tyber Zann seized the Eclipse's incredible power above Kuat.ĭestroying other ships however, doesn't show the extent of the Eclipse's superlaser's power. The most deadly weapon carried by Eclipse-class ships was an axial superlaser, similar to but significantly less powerful than one of the component beams used in the Death Star's superlaser. Its size in addition was also large enough for it to also be classified as a space station. Although technically being dwarfed in length only by both the Executor-class Star Dreadnought and the Vengeance-class dreadnought by 1.5 kilometers, the Eclipse-class nonetheless outranked even the Executor-class in terms of overall mass and volume.
The Eclipse-class vessels were among the largest dreadnought-scale ships/Super Star Destroyers ever to be fielded within Galactic history.
