![]() As the Battle of Scarif unfurled, the Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin had General Hurst Romodi call in Lord Vader and the Devastator to deal with the rebel forces. Again under the Emperor's Fist Scarif īy 0 BBY, the Devastator was again the flagship of Vader, although now captained by Shaef Corsin, and was employed in his struggle against the Rebel Alliance. In 5 BBY, fourteen years after the establishment of the Galactic Empire, the Devastator was the flagship of Lord Tion. While the Jedi Master headed to the barren moon nearby, the Dark Lord ordered his crew to prepare his shuttle, vowing to face his old mentor alone. The Grand Inquisitor counselled Lord Vader to continue their pursuit of the insurgents' ship, but his master countered that that was no ordinary Jedi before ordering the Devastator to pursue Kenobi's ship. Obi-Wan used a drop ship to draw the Imperials attention away from his allies. Īfter the Path escaped from Jabiim, The Devastator was used to pursue Kawlan Roken's freight transport. Not wanting to waste time in a long siege, Vader had the Devastator launch two Imperial transports along with the Inquisitor transport Scythe, ferrying Reva, to storm the Path's hideout. Having tracked the fugitive Jedi to Jabiim, the impressed Dark Lord summoned the Third Sister aboard his flagship to reward her for her insight by elevating her to the rank of Grand Inquisitor. īy 9 BBY, the Devastator belonged to the Sith Lord Darth Vader, who, together with a captain, used the vessel in an attempt to capture Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and destroy the Hidden Path, an underground resistance network smuggling individuals wanted by the Empire, including Force-sensitives. ![]() Despite this, it was still considered a state-of-the-art warship, and had undergone numerous retrofits to keep it comparable with newer ships of the line. ![]() The Devastator was the last of the Imperial I-class Star Destroyers to lumber out of Kuat Drive Yards before the facility began producing the Imperial II-class. " We leave for Jabiim at once." ―Darth Vader Additionally, its tractor beam targeting array with diagonal support beams (located between its two deflector shield generator domes) was replaced with a communications tower with vertical support beams. Unlike some other Imperial I-class Star Destroyers, such as Lawbringer and Relentless, the hangars within Devastator 's ventral docking bay were split into two smaller sections, and the aft side featured a cover, so that the bays behind were not visible. Several dozens of times in its service life, the Devastator was structurally altered from its original design to include the latest weapons and systems, which kept it more than competitive with the battleships that were commissioned later. As such, it was armed with turbolaser batteries, ion cannons, and several tractor beam projectors. The Devastator was 1,600 meters long, the standard length for an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer. Tantive IV is pulled into Devastator 's docking bay. 2.3.2 Victory on Hoth and Fall at Endor.
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