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Eck's perfect capital ship: anything that doesn't end with "Star Destroyer"

I'd name it "my mom" so I could say my mom took out your entire fleet

I cant get over how refined and styleized this channel is for just around 200k. Everything is perfect, the style matches the music and theres more personality involved than in other star wars channels.

Capital ships should always operate in a fleet. There role is it to kill other capital ships. I don't think they need large hangers because carriers serve that role better and I would rather use the space for extra weapons, shielding and powergenaration.

My favourite capital ship has got to be the resurgence class star destroyer for the amount of troops and fighters it can hold as well as the firepower necessary for ship to ship combat oh and it also looks cool too

Get the Mandalorians and Mon Calimari to work on a ship together and it will be perfect with great ship design, no blind spots, absurd amounts of fire power, able to carry a large amount of star fighters, and nobody will be able to beat it.

The endurance fleet carrier is a joke. At 1040 meters, it is about the same size as the Venator, but the Endurance only carries 2 wings of starfighters compared to the Venator's 5+ wings, while also being horrendously outgunned by the Venator's eight heavy turbolaser turrets. I have no idea why any sane defense procurement agency would ever consider buying the Endurance, but hey, the New Republic in legends wasn't exactly the best at this.

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Jesus Christ, do you have any idea how much all of that is gonna cost? I mean, you might as well ask for your fighters in your hangers to all be Tie Defenders if you're moving for the quality over quantity, unless you're looking for a flagship.

One idea I have for a capital ship is that it can have 2 attachments 1 on top and 1 below. This can be a shield generator for protecting itself and other ships, a radar dish for intercepting and jamming transmissions, a massive turbolaser like the one at the start of the Last Jedi or a gravity well to pull ships out of hyperspace

Eckharts. What if the rebel alliance never existed. Like "Rebels, Rouge One and A New Hope" never happened. Would there someday still be a civil war between ,The Empire vs The Empire(Old Republic).

I don't know if you've ever played Empyrion or Space Engineers, but you can get a pretty good idea what works and what doesn't work in ship design from designing ships in those games. For one, the larger your ship and the more weapons you have the more power you need. Power generation isn't cheap, it requires a lot of room for all your generators and the more of them you have the more vulnerable you are to catastrophic detonation. If you have a large ship you need a lot of power to the engines in order to move it, you need a lot of power to inertial dampers so people inside don't get thrown against the walls, you need a lot of power to shield it because you can only tack on so much armor before you need more power to move. Ideally important and especially volatile systems are not adjacent to each other within the ship, that way you avoid chain reactions that destroy the entire thing. This may be the purpose of placing shield generators outside the main superstructure like on a Star Destroyer, the point being, if you want to penetrate the main body of the ship, first you're going to have to target these little things that rest nowhere near the important components. Besides moving the ship and shielding the ship, you still need power for your weapons, this is tough because weapons draw a lot of power, especially if you want them to be effective against enemy capital ships. In this regard, Star Destroyers can reroute power to only the cannons that are firing on enemy ships. Star Destroyer design allows them to bring all of their guns to bear on a target in front of them or half their cannons to bear on a ship flanking them while rerouting power from the other cannons to their shields. The armor layout of Star Destroyers is very efficient as well being angled to maximize effective armor from both the front and the sides. To better explain this, say your armor is 50 cm thick, at an angle the armor becomes a lot thicker and more difficult to penetrate. The Star Destroyer's primary role is Capital ship to ship combat and orbital bombardment. To make up for the lack of fighter defenses, they carry several wings of tie fighters and tie bombers. The fighter screen is what protects the ship from enemy fighters, not the armor or a plethora of small laser batteries. Each little turret sticking out of the armor on a Star Destroyer would be a weakness that an enemy capital ship could exploit, thus negating the Star Destroyer's primary role. A spinal laser battery would be a terrible idea since it would make a choice target for any capital ship you were pointing it at. The system wouldn't be particularly fortified and would contain a number of energy capacitors and relays that would explode in a fantastic fashion if they took any damage. All of that of course would be running through the center of your ship where your reactors and important internal components reside. Just imagine a single bomber shoving a few proton torpedoes up the barrel of your massive laser and you get the drift. Much of the inside of the front of a Star Destroyer is devoted to hangars where Tie Fighters can be stored, launched and serviced. This area is not particularly vital to the Star Destroyer, but if it's destroyed they know they can't hang in the fight and they can get the hell out of there.

Well, you pretty much hit all the main points I would want to consider when designing a ship. A variety of weapons, a plausible combat design, adequate defenses, and fighter capacity. Naturally I'd want to throw a super weapon in too, but it seems implausible on anything that isn't a dreadnought sized hull. But the overall versatility and self sufficiency is a huge asset. My experience playing games like Homeworld, Sins, etc always had me relying on anti-fighter ships once carriers became prominent, so having point defense on larger vessels would certainly be a big boon.

Your ship is awesome and My ship would have tractor beams, laser cannon, turbo laser cannon, hangers, shields, hyperdrive and to be a fast ship too

So what you want is the Covenant Assault Carrier from Halo. Excellent point defense, Death Laser( Glassing Beam), able to carry a large amount of fighters, and plenty of damage potential.

Personally I think this is kind of a poor choice in design. If you create one ship and scale it up or down to do everything the ship becomes a jack of all trades and you lose any room for tactics and versatility during a battle, and if you included the best of the best of everything your ship would be cripplingly expensive and hard to produce. My perfect SHIPS would be: A cruiser much like you describe. But I would completely remove Starfighter carrying hangars, superlaser and interdiction bulbs to make more room for weapons and shield generators. I would slant the ship twoards heavy guns and weapons designed to hit other capital ships, but not neglect point defenses entirely. I would place the heavy guns along the blade of the wedge, above and below it and have no bridge or superstructure if I could, the ship would essentially be mirrored top to bottom. I would also inversely taper the wedge toward the rear to provide some coverage of the engines. I would probably build this ship at around the size of an ISD or a Venator. You don't commonly see ships bigger than ISDs in the SW universe and when i did I could use wolf-pack tactics to bring them down. I would call this the Dominator-Class star destroyer A dedicated carrier, which would be around 500-750 meters long. This would probably just be a big brick with a row of hangars along the side, to maximize the amount of hangar space I could build while minimizing the resources needed to build the ship. I would add some laser cannons and ion cannons for point defense, but its main job would be to bring lots of fighters into battle and stay away from combat. Ideally these would stay at the rear of a fleet or use hyperdrive capable fighters and not go into battle at all. It would also be able to land on planets to deploy ground armies. This could be called the Protectorate-Class Carrier A dedicated corvette/gunship. Something with which to kill starfighters. Probably a similar shape to my cruiser but for screening against fighters, so laser cannons would be along the blade of the wedge. I would want it to be as compact and fast moving as possible, ideally less than 100 meters in length so that I could (assuming resource scarcity) produce vast amounts of them for my fleet. I might include a pair of turbolasers on the top and bottom and some torpedoes if it had to duke it out with another capital ship, but the main focus would be on the lasers. And I'd name this one the Saggitate-Class Gunship I can think of about a dozen others for different roles, but those are the three most important ones that come to mind right away.

It seems that what you want is something like the battlestar pegasus, what with the extensive defence grid, superior fighter launching ability, CIC deep within the ship and capital ship crushing forward firepower. The only glaring weakness would be the lack of point defence at the back because of the massive engine block.

The Resergence Star Destroyer is my dream ship! It's bridge is not that exposed, it's got shields compatible to Mon Calimari shields, it has an overwhelming amount of turbo lasers and ion canons and plenty of anti star fighter laser canons and ventral cannon missiles and has multiple hanger bays that hold 2 wings of well made star fighters. (1 wing is usually 72 fighters)

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my perfect capital ship varies actually, I want something that is the mix of a battleship and carrier, lot's of point defense and anti-star destroyer laser's, and multi-function role's to be played 1: I prefer the shape to be a mix of the venator and the liberty to be bulky to have a strong hull while still being flexible in battle 2: laser cannons placed in smart place's to fire at all side's with as little blind spot's as possible 3: I would have a non-exposed bridge like what the finalizer done with 2 bridges, but one in a non exposed way and another deep in the hanger 4: a small superweapon like the super ion cannon or a small super laser able to destroy another star destroyer's in second's 5: able to carry a lot of star fighter's, but not a dedicated carrier with a venator style launch bay with mon calamari shielding with a mix between organic and droid star fighter's to have the maximum amount of fighter's at my disposal 6: and finally, depending on the type it is, another star destroyer or dreadnaught, I would like every turbo laser to be maned by droid's to limit the crew needed to operate the ship and also have my ship able to carry frigate's or star destroyer's to bring a fleet with me at all time's

A starfighter carrier with lots of anti-starfighter weapons. Ideally the starfighters (and bombers) can be deployed at a long range, leaving the carrier well out of range of enemy ships.

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I've been concepting a Star Destroyer style vessel code name Principes or in universe Victory 3. Its a ship based on the style and ideas of the Victory class of Star destroyer, upscaled to 1.0-1.2km long and inherits old ideas from the Venator. It has a Ventral massive hangar bay using the ships own artificial gravity to catapult TIE Avengers and TIE Defenders to Sortie. The ship additionally has a typical SD style hangar behind this strike hangar capable of housing a corvette, and the bay extends to the dorsal side of the ship where doors open up allowing a second Corvette class ship to undock. In short this is a 1.2km long ship with massive strike capacity as it can basically store its own fleet internally and has native atmospheric flight capability WITHOUT using repulsars (it uses the Victory's wings to generate lift), and a massive missile battery capacity. The main weaknesses is Average at best turbolaser firepower and lack of specialization. The ship was designed for flexibility and DEFENSE. A client world of the Remnant or other such government would request aid and this Victory III/Praetor/Principes would respond rapidly, deploy a massive fighter screen with corvette support and bear down on the foe. The ship would likely fail in massive fleet engagements where its lack of specialization beyond its ability to store its own fleet will prove a hindrence. However for a government seeking to defend their borders and clients it should be an ideal vessel.

The perfect capital ship is the venator with its big sexy stripe

I love Home One, Amazing shields and armour has a large hanger also many weapon emplacements spread across the ship.

If you can dominate the skys with your starfithers... * Venator intensifies *

I took to designing a ship based on your specifications. Instead of simply making new ships from the ground up, I thought I'd try to adapt existing ships to your ideas. I've created a rough design for more practical Star Destroyer, though I almost accidentally made it a 4.5km battlecruiser with thousands of fighters. The big visual differences are the addition of gravity well projectors, much like the Legends Interdictor-class Star Destroyer and the octuple barbette turrets have been relocated. The number remains the same, but half of them new reside along the belly, and half along the spine, each set in a tiered line so that they can shoot over the turret in front of them. As you were hoping to see, it features a spinal hangar, much like the Venator-class and carries a total of 160 fighters in that spinal hangar while still having three additional bays in the main hangar that can be used for transports, shuttles and landing craft. I didn't have enough space on the hull for both the hangar and axial superlaser, but if you wanted to scale the ship up and down, you would probably find the room in larger ships. I've also added gravity well projectors to the ship, making it resemble the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer from legends. I haven't yet figured out what I want to do with the bridge. I want to keep to the iconic design of the Star Destroyer, but that exposed bridge is a problem, as you pointed out. I would likely move the command deck deeper into the hull and have the former bridge be where non-essential systems are kept.

My perfect capital ship: To be honest, an Ion cannon is massivly useful in a lot of situations, as well as good carrier capabilties, but that would add some predictability. If the fighters retreat, it's probably because the ion cannons are about to fire, but then the other starfighters go bye-bye. Long range Turbolasers like on the Munificent Frigates/Destroyers would be required, with good point defence should something come near. You wouldn't really need that many other turbolasers, just quite a few long-range ones focused near the front. On the sides and near the front you could have point defence, but as you would have very good fighter cover, it isn't needed too much, and you have a fleet too. So, something like a very bulky spear would be nice. Triangular/cone front for the guns, and the body would bulk out and be rather like a flatter bit of a Mon-Calamari ship, with shield generator bulges, engine housing, and maybe a hangar towards the back. This would be a blind spot, but I think it would be well-covered by a backing fleet, or simply by having turrets on top of an engine housing bay-thing near the back. Tl;dr Bulky spear shape, fighter hangar at the back, heavy weapons at the front, ion cannon and lots of point defence.

I would have a rectangular capital ship with a very big spinele mass driver accelerator like a Mac in halo which should be strong enough to break through even moncala ship’s shield, then on the each sides 35 light quadruple turbo lasers that can aim in 360 degrees, 5 warhead launchers, 2 mass driver missiles launchers, 15 heavy laser canons, 10 ion canons, 25 laser point defenses and 25 missiles port defenses. It would also have its command center in the center of the ship and room for 100 or so fighters with a venitor type hanger on the bottom so fights can just drop out of it and go straight in to battle. Moncala redundant shields would be nice too, a class 1 hyper drive and a secondary class 6. And the name is heer adenn which is mand’o for the merciless and mand’o is what the mandalorian speaks and of course a capital ship with so many weapons is mandalorian so in total there are 1 super sized mass driver accelerator, 70 quadruple light turbo lasers, 5 war head launchers, 2 mass driver missiles, 30 heavy laser canons, 20 ion canons, 50 laser point defense, 50 missile point defense and 100 or so fo a mix of star fights, bombers and interceptors

For my ideal ship I'd go for something more along the "in-between" sizes, something between a Victory and ISD or between an ISD and an Allegiance. I'd also rely more heavily on missile based weapons than heavy turbolasers and try to gear the weapons to execute a kind of ship-based Nova Flair or "reverse torpedo sphere" where I'd focus fire from turbolasers and ion cannons on single spots on enemy ships to weaken the shields enough for a quick concentrated barrage of missiles to punch through. I'd also go for the same carrier battleship hybrid design but gear it almost exclusively for space warfare and only have enough troopers for boarding engagements or small-scale commando or decapitation strikes ground side.

Great video! My summary:Decent point defence weapon, shield device on defended position, main gun turret with extensive angle of traverse, fighter&bomber carrier capability(about hundreds of), economic super laser, some gravity well device. And all these equipment put in to ship hull with minimum superstructure and not exposed bridge or make protected command center inside the hull. I all agree this view. Maybe this ship eat a cost to build, but who cares a cost when make a capital ship of the fleet that have to protect at any cost. My only oppinion is "When you build this, deploy at least 2 ship in single fleet". Becase if there is only one, your enemy will concentrate all fire power to your dreadnought. United Federation of Planets vs Galactic Empire.

A big role I would have for my primary capital ship is the ability to act as a carrier for smaller warships (obviously inspired by the Infinity from halo). In addition to having enough space for fighters, I'd be sure to include enough internal hangar space to house a few light cruisers or smaller frigates/corvettes, heavily armed ships that would be more dedicated to speed and firepower without any large or advanced navigation or targeting systems. As a result I'd focus more of my capital carrier's power on high power shielding and point defense, targeting, and navigation systems with the goal of acting as a heavily defended tank that does high level logistics providing intelligence and targeting information to its smaller ships. It would definitely have enough heavy ion/turbolaser weapons to defend itself but the main offensive power would be in its smaller ships that would be able to outmaneuver and outgun the enemy.

The Crusader-Class Heavy Cruiser. It would sort of look like a cross between a providence and hammerhead cruisers. It would be around 700 meters long. The side would be armed with the standard turbo laser and ion cannons. Though the drive section would have a v section with quad laser cannon point defense. The hammerhead portion in the front would have two duel heavy laser cannon, proton torpedo and buzz droid missal tubes. I also like the idea of the Star destroyer’s protected underbelly hanger to safely deploy fighters. So I would incorporate that too.

One of my two perfect capital ships is essentially a redesigned malevolence. First, we take all the guns and put them on the top and bottom of the ship instead of built into the sides like most separatist ships. This would provide those oh so coveted firing arcs, including rear protection. Then we update everything to whatever the “current day” cutting edge tech is. For the main guns, I think we redesign the octuple barbette gun as a square of 4 guns on each side rather than a line of 4 guns. It does reduce the chance of glancing blows, but drastically increases penetration by focusing the blasts more. More penetration increases the possibility of creating new weak spots for fighters to exploit. Depending on the spacing, you may be able to stuff a fifth barrel on each side, (think a 5 on a die) Obviously stuff as many on as possible. For point defense, I like quad laser cannons since they can also contribute towards capital ship fights, while still wrecking star fighters. In addition, I would have missile launchers utilizing the cluster seeker missiles from the first rogue squadron game. Those things were so overpowered it wasn’t even funny. Those things could kill up to six fighters at a time, and even shred the one assault shuttle you fight. A capital ship with several dozen tubes or turrets dedicated to those should have no problem defending itself from fighters, and they can again add to capital ship damage. You can probably also have a signal from your own fighters to distinguish friendlies. Now we get to the ion weapon. I personally believe the ion weapon is the most useful super weapon in all of star wars. Firstly, it has a much better firing arc than a superlaser, and can also line that firing arc up more easily than sighting a super laser straight down the middle. Secondly, I believe that when scaled to the technology of whatever time it’s dropped into, the weapon should have no trouble doing nearly irreparable damage to a ship’s systems. My evidence for this is how rebel ion weapons have been able to deactivate huge portions of star destroyers for fatal periods of time with just one or two hits (my sources are the battles of hoth and scariff) the regular ion cannons and bombs seem to have a huge area of effect. Now take the malevolence’s ion weapon, which was presumably still in the testing phase when it was destroyed, and give it the improvements in speed and power it would get from tech upgrades during the gap between the clone wars and the galactic civil war, and you have something truly omnipotent towards capital ships, requiring at least several hours of unharassed repair to restore function, (also sits better with the public than a planet busting laser. Ion cannons don’t hurt living people) Lastly, for fighters I would use a mix of up to date droid tri-fighters for air superiority (can buzz droids be useful vs frigates?) and b wings (preferably the super laser wielding kind from that one episode of rebels) to bomb any slippery frigates and light cruisers into dust. Probably have the hangars in slanted positions in some of the spaces where guns used to be on the sides. And there you go. Clean up the obvious exposed bridge and stuff like that, update the regular tech like shields and stuff to cutting edge, and you have my first perfect capital ship. All wrapped up nice for General Grievous to kill dumb jedi with.

I would definitely use the lurk hulk hull design and layout, but, obviously heavily mod it, based on what you've said. The hulks design by which I mean a circle that surrounds a sphere. Is very much overlooked.

I loved the video. I have personally designed my own capital ship for the universe I write in. It includes a lot of what you said, including a command center buried deep in the belly of the ship.

My perfect Star Wars capital ship would probably be some sort of updated Venator. Give it a more powerful generator or whatever, lower those bridge spines and put some guns around them, mount more guns all along the hull (especially along the spinal hangar doors to provide cover fire for deploying fighters), and maybe add in some dedicated hangar areas on the bottom for deployment of frigates. When you can bring in starfighters, why not also deploy heavier ships?

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I have two names: Galaxy and Universe.My favorite design are a ship whom are an extended oval shape when seeing it from above and where the centerline of that oval are filled with guns that can move anywhere in theyre firing arch. Thus you can maximaze the arch each gun can fire and you can fire half the gun to the front, the back and the side and almost all the guns can fire at top or bottom attacks. I would also place hangar bays at both the bottom (Like the star destroyers has) and smaller ones at the top of the ship facing both front and back. And maybe a couple of point defence towers filled with AA guns. I would have at least two bridges and a CCC burried deep inside the superstructure so that no single hit can take out all of the comand capabilties. Johan.

I think the Supremacy could be amazing as a literal Capital Ship, with a few upgrades. 1) Better shielding which doesn’t have a fractional refresh rate. 2) Heavier weapons, think of a Superlaser or Orbital Autocannons. 3) A competent Commanding Officer (my pick’s Captain Canady). 4) A well layed out and extensive Point Defense System (though I don’t know if it already has this). 5) Better, bigger and more engines.

mine would be a framework that carries massive metal blocks or asteroids with hyper drives and astromechs, so if there is a enemy fleet it just sends out the hyperdrive ramming asteroids or metal blocks to obliterate everything, and after the battle it would just take the remains of enemies (probably using shuttles since it’s more of a mobile space station) and compress them into a block of scrap that it can fire at enemies.

My capital ship’s main weapon would be a large series of ion canon emplacements with the goal of knocking out enemy ships then sending in commandos to rush the bridge and either turn the internal defense against the occupants or flush out the oxygen. We would be left with new capital ships to use or scrap to make new ships. It would be called something like the bloody conversion.

For my perfect Capital Ship/ Ship of the Line Hull- Start with Imp-star hull. Flare the upper and lower spine of the wedge to make the main hull deeper. At the 3/4 or so mark, start decreasing the flare in the aft. Final base hull should look like a squashed diamond. Bridge will be recessed into the upper spine section, visible but not hanging in the wind. No wings to improve coverage angles. Hanger space in original position. No reactor bulge on bottom due to increased internal space. Armament- Consolidation is the story here. Maintaining the Octuple Turbolaser Turrets on the hull broadside, with 2 more on the lower hull. All but the #4 upper turret are super-firing forward, numbers 3 and 4 upper and #2 lower can fire aft. All the original superstructure casement guns are removed, replaced with 2 spinal mounted Octuple turrets top and bottom. A total of 24 ion cannons in triple ball mounts along the edges of the hull, 4 turrets per side, aft most can engage rear quarter. Torp launcher battery in the bow. 30 quad laser around ship, overlapping as much as possible. A quarter can engage within rear quarter. Protection- Modern shield systems, as high as possible after weapons and propulsion (Mon-cal type if possible). Armor in line with a brawler. Doors for hanger if not too costly. Fighters- Space for 72 armed craft. For theme purpose, a mix of advanced Tie models (TIE-A, TIE-Def) and Assault Gunboats. I picture this as a replacement for the Imperial and Allegiance Star destroyers. Less variety of emplacements for easier replacement. Lessened vulnerability. I could see a warlord or remnant faction making this. In my head this seems like a good cruiser.

When it comes to the super laser option there's already something reasonable, and it kinda got used on the dreadnought from Last Jedi. It's finding a way to mount a planetary type turbo laser on it. Powerful, destroys most ships it hits in one shot or salvo, just limited by it's overall size for targeting.

my perfect ship would be less star wars and more halo. due to how focused the star wars galaxy is on energy logic and reason dictates they would have less defense against solid projectile (though one of my friends referred to the absolutely insane legends numbers which really do not make sense) so i would build a ship to counter standard star wars conventions. giant cannons in place of turbo lasers. i would still use energy based point defense though. and to use part from halo i would likely mount something like a MAC gun on it. aside from this the ship would have a light fighter escort and mostly operate as a mobile command center with enough fire power to protect itself from most other ship.

Ideal shape: a double edge sword with fuller and tang, engines located either side of the tang. There wouldn't be any outward identifiers as to which side was the 'top' of the ship unless you see it in atmosphere, or make assumptions when its aligned in orbit. Weapons: an even mix of point defense, laser cannon, turbo laser and ion cannons, but a lot of them, along the flats of the 'blade', mirrored top and bottom, as well as along the 'edge of the blade' to prevent side-trench blind spots, and on the 'tang' to protect the rear and the engines. Missile silos scattered about but mostly located in the 'edges' where they'd be less in the way of broadside line of firing. Relatively flat sloping of the surfaces would allow a great deal of coverage and lack of super structure would mean the large cannons on the sides of the fullers can shoot across it over their counterparts if needed. Forward is the most devastating to target though, with a lesser super laser through the center of the ship for those really hard targets, and even without that, nearly every weapon on the 'flat' and 'edge' could still fire forward as well. Super laser would be either a reserved weapon for large targets (dreadnoughts, etc.) or an intimidating opening shot to take out the other fleet's flag ship. Hangers: a couple smaller closable ones located within each of the 'edges', with point defense weaponry on either side, and a pair of main hangers within the dip of the dorsal and ventral fullers, with a cover that can either open like a Venator's during 'safe' deployment and recovery or like an overly long ramp during combat deployment to minimize exposure of the insides, and likewise having point defenses along the inner ridge of the fullers. Side hangers would hold fighters and interceptors, while main hangers could hold a larger variety including bombers, shuttles, etc. Bridge: would be fully contained and located in front of dorsal main hanger and above the super laser, with a secondary bridge located below it in front of the ventral main hanger, and then tertiary and quandary bridges located behind the dorsal and ventral main hangers. Shielding: redundant isn't a bad idea when it comes to protection. Mirrored to both sides, one shield generator somewhere between the tip and the fuller, and another two astride of the fuller around the half way point, totaling six for the main portion, plus a seventh and eighth dedicated within the tang for rear defense. Name: The Severance, because its both blade shaped and with focused firing, even without the super laser, it could probably slice through any normal ship defenses, plus for the crazy captains, the double forward shielding allows for 'stabbing' the enemy ship; ideally, roll the Severance so it can cut the other whip in half instead of stabbing an overly wide whole through it. If down scaled, replace the side hangers with more missile silos.

I’d pick the Harrower class dreadnought with quad turbolasers around the edges of the ship even the end of it, with 4 octupule barrette lasers 2 on each side, and with dual turbolasers covering them along with trackerbeams and point defense cannons. I’d have tri-fighters and vulture droids

You can have a large number of fighters.Fighters like the seoperisty.sorry if I missed spelled that. Plus bombers,you put them out side of the ship.Also the ship hangers like the x-wing an mix up the ship type in the hangers.

i would use 2 kinds of capital ship together. a large star destroyer like ship (how about "Behemoth class Cruiser"?)with loads of turbolasers and a dedicated carrying cruiser, maybe a upscaled Venator(Venator II ?)with a focus on point defense. both would not have exposed bridges and superstructures, but instead have a angled back (Diamond Shape) where the engines are placed with point defense systems against bombers.

My big star ship: 3 big ass hangers for fighter craft 2or4 small ship hangers(heavy assault frigates), a mix of heavy to medium to light turbolasers, heavy to medium to light railguns, pulslaser cannons, mazers, ion cannons, positron shock cannons, and other weapons from other syfy shows. The ship is 50km long. The main weapon is a dimensional-wave-death-ray( super laser😒). The name of this ship is the Imperial Draconic Navy’s Ship Enterprise😁. Edit: the hull number/name is SSD-BB 001 IDNS Enterprise

You raise a lot of good points for a good capitol ship design. Though instead of a superlaser, which seams to be ether rare or difficult to make, I would replace it with a large, fixed mount, Planetary Ion Cannon, like the one the Rebels had on Hoth. It is able to completely disable a stardestroyer in just a few shots, leaving the other guy vulnerable to a turbolaser barrage, or if you are feeling really cheeky, boarding parties to try and take the ship for yourself. I don't actually know how big that weapon was, but it couldn't be too big, the rebels had to get it illegaly and then smuggle it to Hoth, and actually set it up after all. And I doubt it takes more power than a capitol ship could give it, as any power supply the Rebels had would also have to have been smuggled in and set up too. It also had to be a fairly common weapon system ... how would the rebels have gotten it otherwise?

I think best solution for ship weapon are Trek style 360 degree Arrays able to cover almost 95% of area around ship when remaining 5% (usually around bridge and engines) can be covered by gun points. And if you add to them a dedicated point defence system for intercepting missiles and fighters you might get pretty balanced ship without overextended power draining weapons systems. It's worth to mention that concentrated overloaded Arrays could be used as equivalent of super laser and it's easy to guess that with even Imperial class SD power source such combined beam would be absolutely devastated for the planet surface.

My ship: The Skakoan Dream I'd probably imitate the design and shielding of Mon Calamari ships, and also have the hangars angled downward, along with the fighters, and I'd use magnetic clamps to keep them attached. I would use a similar arsenal to the MC30c, with cluster bombs and torpedoes being its primary weapons, but with some laser cannons to deal with fighters. I would also ensure that it had a small detachment of infantry troops. It would be manned by loyal and efficient droids. Basically, I would scale up the MC30c, give it some downward-angled hangars, and give it its own detachment of elite infantry.

I've been working on a story where the flagships are called leviathans and are Built with the bridge low and a raised superlaser as an anti capital ship, full turning radius and is designed to be the main target from the enemy while it's main cannons do the leg work. It's also built to make speedy turns with small thrustsers facing in both directions on the sides. I haven't yet thought of starship deployment though. I got a lot of ideas from the star wars universe and the ship design would look like two star destroyers back to back but with the main engines on only one side. It's all styled after my Lego design I made when I was 14, it's supposed to be my version of a super star destroyer, instead of a triangle more of a diamond shape. There are a few other concepts I'm working on story wise to correct flaws, like missile sites as anti fighter systems and other things that I am trying to find out would scientifically be possable but that's probably 1-2 thousand years of science before the possibilities are known. Simply put a short ranged teleportation device, and (thanks to stargate for the idea) phase shifting devices. A giant ship with devastating firepower that can teleport or shift out of phase would be near impossible to beat. The main issue would be power consumption as these ships would burn through vast amounts of energy during a fight, on of my favorite ideas was styled after Halo Reaches mack turrets, which is a magnetic quad-fire cannon, meant to pierce right through various kinds of shielding to take advantage of any weakpoints like external power systems or key turrets. This is supposed to be a race older than earth with technology that would seem impossible, few in number but impossible to conquer. If anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear them, I was reading NightRavens post and realize if I used my Lego design, my ship has quite a few weaknesses, but hey it's hard to make a great design when I'm using Legos and not militarily inclined.

The Bellator is my favorite Star Wars capital ship. I would combine it with a Infinity style belly hangar, in wich it could carry a few small escort vessels. It would have multiple hangarbays along the port and starbort edge to launch fighters and bombers. It would have multiple bomber squadrons and the fighters needed to escort those. The bombers could soften up targets, that outgunn it, while the escorts intercept faster vessels. The main armament would be less than the Bellator, but it would have next to turbolaser and ion canon batterirs a large number of missile launchers and an extensive point defens suit.

If I could have a capital ship, what I would need in it would be: 1: Multiple turbolasers 2: Tons of point defense 3: A menacing superlaser like the eclipse's 4: A good color scheme of a base color of black with a light cyan (green mixed with blue) stripe going down the middle 5: An Imperial star destroyer looking shape 6: Hull-installed command bridge (like the invisible hand's) 7: Hangar bays 8: Support fleet of an identical ship (so no enemy can know which one is which) and other ships

The Power Requirements of the ship you requested would be off the charts

I LOVE the musical openings to these clips. They are absolutely fitting to your material, sir. :)

When designing the perfect ship the shape, size, weaponry, and fighter capacity don't matter. The only thing that matters is plot armor. How else do you think that the Rebels ever accomplished anything?

My ship would probably be a Viscount Star Defender with a type of Venator class star destroyer hanger. It’s name would be The Galactic Defender, and its line would be Vencount Glactic Defender. There would be two types the Galactic Defender type and the star liberator type. The star liberator would have a more deticated Ship to Ship combat weapon system. It would also have less hangar space for more Turbolasers and quadlaser cannons. It would be about 15,000,000,000,000 credits to by and it would be manufactured by Mon Cala Ship-Yards! That is my ship Eck. Have a good week.

the finest capital ship, in my opinion, would use a mix of weapons, with one aft hanger for recovering fighters and launch tubes along the body of the ship, redundant shields, no super-laser, possibly some gravity well generators, and spaced armor. Auxiliary and command systems would include multiple redundant life support, emergency system automation, redundant sensors and communications, and a centralized bridge with multiple redundant backups. The power and propulsion would include body molded engines, redundant hyperdrives, redundant power generators, and a reactor ejection system so in the event of an overload the reactor can be ejected to prevent the complete destruction of the ship. Fighter storage would be done in launch racks near the launch tubes, approximate fighter capacity would be 200 tube launch capable with about 20 heavier hangar launch fighters. Additional hangars would be positioned on either side, and the top in a similar fashion to the Venator. The bottom would have an auxiliary craft, about the size of a CR-90 for emergency evacuation procedures.

Someone probably already has had this thought but what about a sphere with turrets like BB8s head... you can move the turrets wherever the enemy is and mix heavy/light/anti fighter weapons. Wouldn’t be the prettiest thing, but flexibility and being able to effectively engage in 3D space would be a nice capability.

I would go with Mon Cal shields, armor, power core, triple redundant retractable sensor arrays and engine distribution. A point defense network that is robust enough to not require star fighters to supplement it. First Order turbolasers both medium and heavy (with the kyber crystal upgrades), Capitol ship class torpedoes, Ion cannons light, medium and heavy. Two bridges, one primary and one secondary built inside the vessel using camera feeds and sensor displays instead of viewports. No unnecessary view-ports on the ship unless they had external retractable blast shields. 2 separate ventral star fighter bays with retracting doors (think of the Venator but upside own). Several fighter wings. The T-85 X-wing for multipurpose, RZ-2 A-wing for interceptor, and the legends K-wing for a bomber. I would also want several boarding craft and a company of marines for repelling and boarding action. Good recreational, and mess hall facilities for the crew to keep moral up. A pair of internally docked corvettes and finally a dedicated cloaking device. I would avoid gravity well generators and superlasers because they are too power hungry and tend to take up a massive amount of room. Plus with the traditional armaments and support craft used properly it shouldn't prove too difficult to take down a target.

My ship would be a more of an elongated diamond, with essentially ridges or 'spines' fore, and 4 steeper ridges aft. The slope of the taper would be enough that it provides clearance for weapons mounted along it, and that's where all my capitol grade weapons turrets would be located. Ideally, it would be arranged so any point can be targetted by nearly 3/4ths of all capitol weapons. In function it would serve as something of a 'Battlestar', boasting a mix of capitol weapons and fighters. It would definitely have all types of weapons, with a focus on Point Defense weapons and Ion Cannons (I've always liked the idea of capturing enemy ships for my own use.) To complement this, my onboard ships would be highly trained and equipped for boarding actions. My ship would definitely have a gravity well generator, if at all possible. If I can fit a light axial superlaser it would be nice, but that is a lower priority. I would definitely want redundant regenerative shields if at all possible, and would expend significant resources on finding a way to deflect (not stop, that's way outside any power budget,) a light axial superlaser.

Hmmm, another thing to consider as a qualifier for "perfection" can also be external factors like economic cost and logistics. I have two contenders, don't know what I would name them though. For smaller scale capitol ships; I would have a battlecruiser (2+ km) outfitted as a battle carrier with strong and redundant shield systems, point-defense network, and ion cannons to disable capital ships. Then for primary capitol ship warfare; have massive hangars to deploy large fighter squadrons of various types, both manned and droid. This compliments the ion weapons greatly, with enemy caps disabled, the fighters can swoop in and make short work of primary systems. These ships are easily disposable too sense I'm not spending a whole bunch of caps on state of the art weapons and power generators. If I am, I would use it to upgrade the shields and ion weapons. My problem with super star destroyers is all they do is add more guns on them the larger they get. Even though the credits would have been put to better use by creating multiple ships with the same combined firepower (Thrawn approves). No, if I am to create a bigger battleship, then I would build it with the idea and purpose of bringing bigger weapons and logistics to a fight that I couldn't ordinarily do with a mass of smaller ships. So for larger scaled dreadnoughts to compliment these battle carriers of mine; I would have largely the same carrier role and design but only as a secondary addition to its build. Its carrier role should exist to fulfill a self-defensive function, not offensive like the battle carriers. I would make better use of the ships larger size by including two if not more assertor style superlasers so I am getting a better bang for my buck. With a fair amount of heavy turbo lasers (no where near as much as most SSDs) serving as secondary weapons to pick off stragglers and lower level threats. But these superlasers are its primary function, so most secondary resources should be focused on defenses including armor, shields, point defense, and fighter support. Turbo lasers are a last priority. Hell, looking at the Legends Assertor, its total reactor power output was 5 TIMES (if not more) than that of its superlaser's firepower. If I am going to devote resources to building a ship with this same reactor output, I am sacrificing turbo lasers in favor of at least one more superlaser because if I am going to have fleet killer, mine as well have it insta-kill high priority targets before they become a significant threat, rather than build the ship for slugging matches with them.

For capital ships, I'd say there's two, one that is a dedicated destroyer for slugging it out on other capital ships, and a carrier/counter fighter style. I would rather work with fleets or small squads of ships than a huge ship. I think a ship called Autumn Frost sounds pretty neat. That or Dasvanu.

Just make two sister ships (like the Megador and Dominion) that are big, have a shit ton of guns, extremely good shielding, that crystal armor thingy from the maw and fast engines plus a good hyperdrive And you gotta name it something extremely edgy like "Hammer of Dawn" or "Wrathbringer", maybe "Fist of Doom"

As an engineer I think you also have to take other considerations into mind. It often leads to a more realistic design that will fit more. Things like cost, ease of maintenance, power consumption."The best of the best" is often much more expensive. A hundred Sherman tanks will defeat a single King Tiger tank.Maintenance is also often an important design element. The CR-90 might look the way it does because it is a long distance fast ship, where the engines might need regular maintenance and easy access.You might also be limited in what you can put on a ship by power consumption. Power generation seems to be bulky in Star Wars.And an exposed bridge is often done so that even if systems go down, the command still has an idea of what is going on. It also works well in movies.

My dream flag ship in Star Wars: 1.) Good mixture of all weapon types leaving no blind spot and also leaving no weaknesses, but also making it a jack of all trades and not as powerfull as a dedicated vessel. 2.) Best available shielding and armor. 3.) 2 gravity generators like Interdictors have. 4.) Carrying capability to control or invade a star system in regards to ground forces with the capability to establish a full forward ground base and support craft to transport things. 5.) Carrying capability of 10 fighter squads and 5 bomber squads for small craft as well as landing craft, shuttles, etc. 6.) A bit more space to deploy 3 or 4 mining bases and ground installations that can harvest and refine rescources on a scale that my vessel is completely self sufficient. 7.) sized down galaxy gun embedded into the middle of the ship to instakill anything it points it nose on and to avoid prolonged planetary bombardments by just using one torpedo per continent to wipe a planet clean. 8.) Best Hyperdrive that is available (preferably even an oversized one to minimize travel time). 9.) Cloaking device like the Tie-Phantom from Empire at war. 10.) Thrusters big enough to allow for good manouverability and sublight speed. 11.) Shape: Like an Osaka from X3: The Terran Conflict, galaxy gun point is in the middle of the round superstructure and fires straight forward. Guidance systems of the projectile activate after passing safety distance. The top and bottom of the ship and it´s engine nacelles can be covered in a way to have no real blind spot. Hangars can be put on the round superstructure.

The Venator always struck me as a fantastically designed ship for its role. It wasn’t designed to win a slug-fest and annihilate ground opposition from orbit like the Imperial Star Destroyers. However, it could slug it out with most capital ships, and it did have the firepower for orbital bombardment. Where it succeeds over the Imperial Star Destroyer is its fighter escorts and its point defense systems. That sucker had hundreds of fighters. It could send out a bunch of ARC-170s and Y-wings for offense and still have a hornets nest of V-wings available for defense, on top of dozens of point defense lasers. You can understand why it was designed this way since it had to deal with swarms of droids. Plus, it was quite fast, carried a garrison, and was cheap in comparison to the Imperials. Its drawbacks are its firing arc and exposed bridge, though the latter is somewhat mitigated by its dual command towers. From straight on or while being chased, only two heavy turbolaser batteries could fire at a time. Oh well, no ship is perfect. I wonder if they could just put those heavy turrets on raising pedestals to create a greater firing arc? I assume they can’t be moved forward since they need to be close to the reactor because of their energy demands.

My pick: A ship with a shipyard built into it. Then add a planetary shield to make it (and any friendlies near it) effectively invincible to attacks from the front (short of a superweapon or a star destroyer successfully ramming it). Arm the ship itself with mostly anti-fighter weapons and ion weapons. In place of anti-ship weapons, give it a set of powerful tractor beams so it can push enemy capital ships that try to circumvent the forward "planetary" shield (you can also use it to capture small ships if you wanted, or use them to crash some enemy capital ships into each other). Add some gravity well gens as well to force enemy ships out of hyperspace where you want them to come out. Use this ship to construct and maintain other capital ships and to house large quantities of fighters. In battle, use the ship's "planetary" shield to act as cover for your other ships to move in and out from behind whenever they need to pull back and let their weapons and shields recharge. .

i personally like star destroyers, but your ship design was still really good

The heavy weapons introduced in TLJ bring about some additional interesting options. The weapons seen on the Monitor and Supremacy obviously require a lot of structure and support considering the size of ships they are on, but a single spinal mounted one might be what you want. The siege laser they deployed to the planet was smaller, but still more dangerous than a turbolaser but seemed slow to fire and also appears to have a rather short range, relatively speaking. Of course weaponizing hyperdrives is now canon, although I'm pretty sure I can't be the only one to think of it decades ago, it seems navigational computers and the hyperdrives themselves had built in safety features probably since the time of the old republic since few people that aren't crazy (Han Solo and VA Holdo) even consider disabling or overriding all those safety features. It probably got to the point that it wasn't considered because everyone was so used to those safety features they didn't think about them, except that the entire purpose of Interdictors and artificial gravity well generators is to fool those same safety features. (I theorize that one of the reasons Han Solo disabled the safety features on the Falcons hyperdrives was so Interdictors couldn't catch him but his modifications are also whay it's always breaking down and nerds more preventive maintenance than most) However this brings about the idea off a new type of ship, with the potential to destroy a planet with out being as big as a Death Star. Long range hyperspace missile ships, the hyperspace missiles them selves need an ultra high density penetrator head, a simple navigation computer a possibly complex targeting computer and real space and hyperdrives with enough fuel for one long and one short jump for the long range version of the missiles. Basically you designate a target, jettison the hyper-missile from the foreign ship, it orients on the target (capital ship or planet) and the it engages it's hyperdrives to go through the target. The ultra high density penetrator nose of the missile is so you get results like Holdo instead of like the rebel ship trying to flee Scarif that tried to jump to hyperspace just as Vader ISD arrived and splattered across its how. The long range version of the missile is fired at planet's of orbital structures from outsided the target system, the hyperspace missiles make a long hyperspace jump to near the target, make any corrections the need to and the engage the hyperdrives again to hit the target, this might not be necessary for planet's as much as orbital facilities or bases that might alter their orbital track.

Ironically, the ideal battleship that Eckhart specs out is the Space Battleship Yamato: Turreted guns with wide firing arcs. Virtually no blind spots (you may think that the bottom of the hull is a blind spot, but all you need to do is roll the ship 90 degrees to correct this, and the ship is shown as being very nimble), it carries a couple of squadrons of its own fighters, and it has one of the most OP main weapons in Sci Fi, the Wave Motion Gun. Oh, and it has impenetrable Plot Armor and can use asteroids in a fast spinning electro-magnetic field as another shield layer. Yamato's turbo lasers would one shot any other star wars capital ship, if its performance against Gamilon warships is any indication. Weapon variety: Yamato has the Wave Motion Gun, turreted heavy guns, AA guns, torpedoes and missiles, and fighters. It even has a marine contingent for boarding actions.

My ideal ship would be something along the lines if the Valient class Destroyer. It has the Venator style cargo hold for starfighters with the Harrower size and actual capacity of fighters. I would add the Mon Cal style shielding for added defence

May i give you an idea?,good could you do a vid on the best “ugly” type ship?

There is a very simple solution to the firing arc problem. Put all of the main weapons along the centre line. This would work especially well on an Imperial Star Destroyer. They can all fire to the port, starboard and straight ahead. This can be seen in real life with battleship debelopment in the 1910's and 20's when designs went from wing turrets to centre-line super-firing turrets, in effect reducing the number of guns (and thus a shit load of weight) without actually reducing the fire power.

My ideal capital ship would be an advanced harrower (idk if spelt right) It has multiple hangars, sufficient size to be classed as a Heavy Carrier/Capital Ship and Relatively heavy weaponry for its time. I would enhance the amount of turbolasers and point defense systems to act not only as a ship to ship combatant but a ship which could hold its own if needs be

I’d use a venator class ship straight up but with stolen imperial computer systems and moncal shields with the normal venator shields as backup I’d also make it bigger so it can hold more fighters so I can also defend with a small percent of the fighters

I would keep the imperial two class design and make some modifications I would spread point defense lasers over the the hull but still keep all the turbo lasers, then I would add a gravity well inside the ship away from enemy fire, I would also layer the shields and spread them around the ship.

Slope the top and bottom hull to be thicker at the back, do the heavy cannons along the sides and you'd be able to being most or all of them to bare on targets in front of it. A few along the spine might be nice as well, as they should have huge firing arcs. With a flat hull and some heavies etc at the back you should be able to cover the engines and let the read heavies also engage targets in front. As smooth a hull as you can top and bottom like a star destroyer. It might be closer to Executor size in the end for power requirements, dot point defence all over, but its rate of fire should be terrifying. And anything in front of it should be demolished in short order. If it is being pounded from one side, role.maybe try to make to turbo lasers can be fired radically off bore on the side. If the main hull top/bottom then has a powerful shield, even though it is presenting a big target, should it not then be able to present heavy armour and an absolute shit storm of point defence and offensive fire? Even point the nose up relative to ships coming in behind would then mean they can be pounded to scrap. The kind of monster I would actually lie to see in action :P Not sure how fighters would dock, but if internal space is limited I wonder about parasite docking instead, which could be done all over. That might take from fancy tube work and raise turrets, not sure. A fun thought experiment any way. And should allow it to temporarily carry a stupid amount of fighter craft externally. There could be compromises with that as it might have to launch everything or have blind spots, but it would be an alarming of parasite craft.

I designed a multi-purpose ship with no design flaws. It is called an MC-100 Liberation type Star Dreadnought Destroyer. It combines the a MC crusier and an Imperial Bellator class. It has no flaws

my ideal flagship would be a large battlecruiser, similar in appearence to the praetor mk-2, with an array of centerline mounted turbolaser batteries along it's centerline. these turrets would be indiviually more powerful than most on ships of comparable size in order to compensate for their fewer number, a drawback necessitated by their placement (in order to optimize their fields of fire.) they would be armored against smaller laser and turbolaser weapons, with a thicker armor belt on the front of the turrets, and would be mounted in superfiring positions, allowing the ship to concentrate the majority of it's main weapons in a forward firing arc. the battlecruiser's secondary weapons would consist of numerous dual purpose medium and heavy laser batteries capable of engaging enemy fighters and corvettes alike. each battery would consist of several of the smaller turrets flanking the larger turret in such a way as to maximize their field of fire, especially that of the main, larger laser turret. the main laser turret in each battery would be armored to resist starfighter grade laser weaponry, and the gun's targeting would be semi-automated, requiring the crew to designate priority targets while the weapons aim themselves. the battlecruiser would possess additional offensive armament in the form of several missile/ torpedo launcher batteries located along the ship's broadside, located in small gaps between the ship's dorsal and ventral armor slabs. these launch tubes are primarily used to fire guided, anti-capital ship warheads not limited by firing arcs, and are especially effective at quickly finishing off enemy warships who have had their shields taken down by sustained turbolaser fire. the entire length of the ship would be encased in two slabs of angular armor, dorsal and ventral, similar to how many imperial space triangles were. this armor would be strong enough to resist sustained turbolaser fire from weapons comparable to those used on imperial-II class star destroyers. this ship would utilize a very powerful reactor buried deep in the core of the ship to power it's weapons, engines and shields. it's command bridge, and other critical systems, would likewise be buried deep in the ship's core, with the less critical spaces being further from the core and would be destroyed first if enemy weapons fire did manage to penetrate the ship's defenses. this ship would use several, smaller, weaker shield generators rather than one large one, with overlapping generators providing greater protection towards the ship's fore and near structural weak points like it's hangers, engines and weapons. the ship would be capable of, if pressured by a superior enemy force, selectively lowering it's shields to take hits to it's thick armor while leaving the more critical parts of the ship protected by smaller shield generators. this would lessen the burden on the ship's reactor, allowing it to continue to operate it's engines and weapons at a higher degree without lowering it's defenses completely. this ship would have engines that, at full power, would allow it to keep pace with a star destroyer so that it would not be left behind in a fleet battle. while it's shielding is unexceptional in raw power for a ship of it's size, it remains an effective defense when combined with it's armor. the excess power diverted to weapons and engines allows for it to match even small dreadnaughts on terms of firepower, while possessing better than average maximum speed for a ship of it's size (albeit with unremarkable acceleration due to the sheer mass of it's armor.) this ship is primarily a warship, however, it can carry it's own fighters into battle using a series of relatively small hangers located along the ship's flanks, in small gaps between the ship's armor plates. these smaller hangers allow for more rapid launching of fighters than a single large hanger, while also removing the structural weakness of a single large hanger. these small hangers would possess armored blast doors that could close to seal the ship's interior off to enemy fire even in the event of a shield failure in one section.

I think if the death star stayed in existence. I bet all the future star destroyers would have become spherical for psychological warfare. That would be my Capital ship and I'd name it Space Balls.

mine would be a variant of the nebula-class star destroyer. 200 meters longer, 35% more firepower( more turbolasers and more point defense guns). primary weapons would be 4 large heavy triple barrel cannon batteries that function similarly to the first order dreadnought cannons only much much smaller. triple layer shielding that one layer could be compressed into a blade like fashion. i actaully came up with this design back in 2009.

Could you make a video on how the Sith Empire that was around during the time of the Old Republic era would have fared against the Yuuzhan Vong? That same empire steamrolled the Republic for 10 years before the Republic got its first victory.

Theres a ship I'm being thinking about but its a mishmash of the Keldabe Battleship (weapons and wing shaped with engines), Aggressor Star Destroyer (mostly the main haul with its main weapons), and vaguely Imperial Star Destroyer (main hull fused with Aggressor Hull). Its kinda a side idea of mine and its main bridge not quite exposed mostly from Keldabe Battleship bridge.

Eckharts perfect ship is what we call a "Assault Carrier" the firepower of battlecruiser or higher magnetude and some starfighters because "F your ISD's cause I got B-wings."

If I remember the cross sections right the superstructure on Star Destroyers was partially to protect their large reactors, without them you run into the problem that dreadnought in the Last Jedi. I would keep the large superstructure, but I would have it sloped similar to the Pellaeon Class Star Destroyers, I would move the heavy anti ship guns to the center on both the top and bottom of the ship so they have a better firing arc and also move the tower forward to have its peak at 2/3 or 3/4 the length of the ship, that way I can mount one or two heavy turbos, a few missile launcher and point defense batteries on the aft of the ship to act as stern chasers for anyone that wants to get up in my engines. For weapons and hangers I would borrow from the First Order's Resurgent Class, good to have a mix of point defense, missiles and turbos to deal with threats, and I do like the idea of multiple hangers to rapidly cycle fighters and bombers. I completely agree that the exposed command bridge is a bad idea, I would move that into the hull and use the tower for flight control and other such tasks with redundant systems built into the hull. I would do the same with the shield generators, get those under the hull armor if possible, if not possible leave them as flush against the hull as possible so it isn't such an obvious target. For larger ships, the Superlaser is cool but kind of impractical, I like the Mandator IV autocannons, faster recharge, smaller reactor drain, and turret mounted so easier to target fast moving ships.

One way to test this ship might be to pit it against capital ships of other universes, like a covenant carrier or ships from Warhammer 40k, like the battle barge or especially the Necron Cairn Class Tombship, which could be difficult to defeat.

This was interesting, but ultimately just indulgence in a kitchen sink approach. Superlaser and carrier and shield and laser and gravity well. That's not a battleship, that's a dreadnought. It's fine that the ship is very flexible, but it also means that it'll cost a lot and have a massive energy draw. I'd use a fusion of the Kedalbe and MC 90. Heavier mass drivers to pierce shields with a system that can drain opposing ships of some energy. Lighter with the turbolasers but higher on cannons. Some Ion batteries against shields. 3 - 5 squads of interceptor or superiority fighters. No bombers. It's "superweapon" is just supercharged turbolasers like the munificent class. Somewhat squared off main hull with an integrated engine block.

My would focus mainly on carrying Starfighters/bombers. And taking inspiration from the Lexington class carrier from Star Blazers would have the launch bays at the back of the ship si the fighters could use the profile of the ship as cover when they launch.

ideal ship, death star no weak point edition. has all the defenses and antiship systems + a lot of fighters, smaller ship, a heavyly shielded corellian corvette with aditional hangar and torpedo launchers to deal with bigger ships, and a cloaking device

My ideal ship would have a base structure looking like a mix of a Mon Cala cruiser and a Providence-Class Battleship. It would mainly be equipped with two medium and one large beam weapons, a few hull-focused turbolasers, ion torpedoes and a healthy scattering of point-defense systems. It would have "wings" (see below) which would extend slightly backward of the back of the ship, and then come to meet at the front. These would almost exclusively be devoted to weapons, including the two medium beam weapons. The side of the base section would hold most of the turbolasers (while yes, as Eckhart pointed out, this would harm the amount that can be used on one ship, turbolasers should really only be used against other capital ships, which are slow in nature, which makes up for some of the loss of effectiveness) and fighter bays, which would be jam-packed with Vulture-Class fighters, a lesser amount of Droid Trifighters, and Droch-class boarding ships. The ship would have high durability, meaning top-of-the-line shielding and hull. It would make up for all this power cost with slow engines, but the ships somewhat flatter design should make up for that. *Base part of the ship here, w/ engines at back* / / / / / / / / / / / / ------------------------Beam-------------------------

I've always been partial to the Strike Cruiser. Small; versatile; multiple weapons systems and fighters. checks all the boxes except being an oversized monstrosity...

If I had a Capital ship to my tastes i would go for something like a battle modified lucrehulk, Likely including Gravity well tech in the core part and modifying the overall ship with turbo lasers and redundant shield generators and then make use of Various droid fighters such as the vulture, hyena and trifighter as something to keep away other fighters and carry out bombing runs on other ships

One thing I'd definitely do is split up the roles of battleship and military transport. The Imperial Star Destroyer carries 10,000 troops, a plethora of landing ships, walkers, pre-constructed bases, all the supplies for those ... And it drags all that extra mass around during space battles as well. If you build your battleship without all that on board, you can have a sleeker, lighter, faster ship that offers the same firepower and protection and also easily carries twice the amount of starfighters. This ship would be superior in a battle and as soon as space superiority is established, you can just bring your invasion force in via armoured bulk freighters.

Something small and sleek that looks like a Naboo style ship but made from the same material as the sun crusher. Weight class would be comparable to a Acclamator. Offensive weapons would not be used but instead the hull would be spear shaped and used to slice through other capital ships. It would carry a good compliment of fighters and bombers that would make up for no offensive weapons. It could possibly have missile/torpedo/buzz droid bays that have outer hatches for anti-fighter Fire. Launch bays would be opened and closed with folding hulls. Emphasis would be given to having a seamless outer hull. Engines would need to be large for this ship type and would be as fast as a corvette class. It would be commanded by humanoids but would have a heavy compliment of battle droids for normal ship operations, offensive ground attacks or boarding an enemy vessel. Last it would be fitted with a cloaking generator allowing it to operate behind enemy lines alone. It could make fast attacks then retreat or just recon an area.

This is very interesting, and the first and foremost thing I would do is: 1: Place a high priority on automation, automation of regular maintenance, of weapons systems, of power management, etc. One of the main reasons why ISDs of practically all configurations have that huge superstructure is because they have absolutely massive crews who's size could be greatly reduced by automating a lot of ship functions which don't demand that special human touch. Aiming guns, sensors, managing electrical power to subsystems, etc is something which machines can do better than living beings and don't have to be smart (and therefor expensive) to do well. 2: Clarify the role of my ship, Star Destroyers for example despite on the surface being battleship/battlecruisers, also place an odd amount of emphasis on planetary invasion, and so yet more internal volume is dedicated to landing craft, walkers, and barracks for non-navy personnel, if my ship is to be a flagship or capital ship filling the battleship/fast battleship role, it needs only sufficient marines to repel boarding actions, this will further reduce the need for it's internal volume to be taken up by living space. 3: The shaping of the ship will be at least similar to an ISD, but reduced in width and increased in length, the superstructure will sink bellow the deck and all of the vital systems will be contained in modular units with anchor points attached directly to the ship's skeleton. This will allow things like vital sensors, shield generators, main and auxiliary reactors, propulsion, etc to be easy to remove, perform maintenance on, and replace in the event of a technology update. 4: Defense, all shield systems will draw their power supply from either the main or redundant reactor, which reactor is drawn from will be overseen by a number of redundant droid brains tasked with managing power flow and power priority, in place of the ISD's two primary shield domes my capital ship will have eight sets of three smaller shield generators, four dorsal and four ventral, placed so that each one provides coverage for a dedicated quadrant of the the dorsal or ventral hull. These shields instead of being permanently "on" when activated will talk with sensors placed regularly over the surface of their quadrant, and when they detect incoming fire however many shields are necessary to absorb the hit will "pulse" on to absorb the hit, this will allow them downtime to cool and prevent overloading without sacrificing the maximum stopping power of larger shields. 5: Offense, primary offensive weapons will consist of 40 ventral and dorsal hybrid turbolaser/ion cannon emplacements, each one will incorporate four turbolaser barbetes and a heavy ion cannon into one gun mount, and they will be mounted evenly over the hull in paired sets to give each set clear firing lines of at least 180 degrees or more. They fire ion shot first followed up by either a rippled salvo or all-at-once salvo from the turbos, this ensures that every hit from every anticapital gun will significantly deplete enemy shields and possibly overload and cripple vital systems while also inflicting physical damage. Supplementing these will be twice their number of quadruple laser cannon emplacements, clustered densely ontop of shield generator domes, near engines, hangars, and other vital systems. Four distinct hangars located on either side of the ship will each hold 50 dedicated space supremacy fighters for a total compliment of 200, being 150 multirole strike fighters, 25 dedicated bombers, and 25 dedicated anticapital torpedo bombers, along with assorted shuttles and crew transports to get people to-and-from the ship. Combat craft are pre-loaded on electromagnetic launch rails that kick them from the hangar at a rapid pace. 7: Propulsion, two very large primary and six medium secondary engines will provide propulsion, the engines use separate power lines to draw from the main reactor, meaning that the disruption of any one engine will not ensure the failure of any other engine, power lines to engines, shields, and weapons systems are hardened to reduce the likelyhood an ion cannon strike will short them out immediately. 8: Sensors, sensors are distributed across the ship and run through droid brains which form composites of the battlefield, allowing for higher fidelity of information than one large sensor system could provide, and ensuring redundancy of sensors, there are two larger receivers which allow this capital ship to network at high speeds with any other two capital ships. Like shield generators they're kept in hardened up-armored domes sunken halfway into the hull, preventing them from easily being destroyed. 9: Armor is partially conventional but may vital systems and patches of hull will incorporate an additional layer of applique high temperature ceramic armor, while more brittle than metal this extremely low thermal conductivity armor will be designed to absorb huge quantities of heat before melting or buckling, backed by an insulation layer which will allow the armor to absorb but not conduct the charge of ion weapons, and further protect vital systems from being overloaded. This armor will be especially prevalent over shield domes, sensor domes, engines, weapons emplacements, and parts of the hull where power systems or explosive fuel could be hit when shields collapse. 10: Special systems, the ship will include two heavy spinal ion cannons which will draw their charge directly from the ship's main reactor, designed to lay out an alpha strike that can cripple other similarly sized ships, or badly deplete the shields of supersized ships or heavily shielded stations and emplacements. An automated power switching system will allow the ship to prioritize different systems, feeding extra power from engines, shields, weapons, sensors, or fighter launch bays to improve their performance. Cooling systems will be robust, working fluids and the crew's water supplies will route around weapons and shield systems, and when not being used during combat will be channeled to overheating systems to lend them extra cooling. In spite of writing about this ship for half an hour, I have no idea what I'd call it.