' I've never seen such an ambitious design… apart from the Death Star.' ―Tyber Zann - Listen ( file info)
The Eclipse led an assault on the New Republic stronghold of Da Soocha V in 10 ABY, and in the battle was destroyed by one of Palpatine's Force storms. The ship was later moved to Byss, where the reborn Emperor Palpatine took control of it as his personal battlestation and flagship. Crime lord Tyber Zann captured the vessel from Imperial forces in 4 ABY to retrieve data from its memory banks, and abandoned it shortly thereafter, realizing that it would present far too big of a target to both Imperial and Rebel forces. The Eclipse was equipped with a bevy of weapons and other technologies, including gravity well projectors, but chief among its weapons was an axial superlaser, capable of cracking a planet's crust or destroying a capital ship in a single blow.įor much of its existence, the Eclipse was under construction around the planet Kuat.
Both a powerful technological tool and a potent psychological weapon, the Eclipse boasted a planet's worth of weaponry and was almost unstoppable. It was built as a flagship for Emperor Palpatine, who used it after being reborn into one of his clone bodies. The Eclipse was the first Eclipse-class dreadnought ever constructed and the lead ship and prototype of its class. ' That's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen, Urai.' ― Tyber Zann to Urai Fen - Listen ( file info)
