Sci-Fi Do Want: The Imperial Star Destroyer

Welcome to the first post in my new series "Sci-Fi Do Want", where I will be writing about my favorite gadgets, vehicles and technology from the realm of science fiction.
These articles will contain no useful information whatsoever, but will let us all nerd out to the awesomeness of the coolest pieces of tech from books, movies, games or any other medium that science fiction is present in.

For the first "Sci-Fi Do Want" I present to you: The Imperial Star Destroyer

The pagoda like superstructure of the Star Destroyer makes for even more hard angles
on the already aggressive looking design

The Imperial Star Destroyer has always been a very special spaceship for me, ever since I saw the Star Wars movie.
The awe inspiring intro that the Star Destroyer makes in Episode IV establishes it right off the gate as a giant bird of prey that will mercilessly hunt down any ship that is unfortunate enough to be labelled as an enemy of the Empire.

The one mile long wedge shape makes it look sleek despite it's size, and the light grey color scheme only adds to the image it projects of a cool and potent weapon of war.
In comparison to the Rebel capital ships in the the Star Wars movies, they are usually much more rounded and "artistic" in appearance. The elongated form of the Mon Calamari Cruiser is a good example of this. While it still makes for an impressive sight, it has a lot less of that hard military weapon aura about it that just oozes out from the Imperial Star Destroyer.

The Mon Calamari Cruiser makes for an impressive, but much less imposing capital ship (intentionally, I'm sure)

On the weapons side of things, the Imperial Star Destroyer packs plenty of turbo laser batteries, and anyone that has tried to make an attack run on one of these bad boys in an X-Wing game knows the world of hurt that they are able to lay down.
The real bite of the Star Destroyer is not in the mounted weapons though (though they alone are enough to take on pretty much any enemy target), but in the 6 squads of Tie Fighters/Interceptors/Bombers.

With such a large amount of fighter sized crafts packed away in its innards, the Imperial Star Destroyer is able to fill the space around it with swarms of angry twin ion engine propelled bees. Bees with frigging lasers, no less!

The Rebels may be the good guys, but the Empire has all the cool toys

Closing out I think I can safely say that the Imperial Star Destroyer is my favorite science fiction spaceship.
There are many other more elegant ships, especially from the Star Trek universe, but the simple and brutal design of the Star Destroyer is what does it for me.

For my money, this is the best way to ride in style across the vast empty black vacuum of space.
Asteroids be damned!



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