Imperious (VRGuardian)

The Imperious is a Venator Class Star Destroyer in allegiance with the Republic and then the Galactic Empire. Measuring 1,137 metres and armed with the standard VSD armament, she fought bravely during the clone wars, single-handedly fighting off six Munificent Frigates while delieving supplies to Mon Calamari and having one of the highest kill totals during the battle of Coruscant.

Early Service
The ship was one of the first ships to be commissioned for the new Grand Army of the Republic and fought in nearly every major battle of the war (Duro, Mon Cal, Coruscant, Kashyyyk etc.). The Imperious racked up a kill total of nearly a hundred CIS Destroyers and other crafts, and was a member of the Open Circle Fleet. During the battle of Dac, she delivered vital supplies to the Mon Cals while fighting off six Munificent Frigates. Over the war, she was crippled, needed all of her 8 heavy guns to be replaced, and lost the first eighty metres of her nose, but the Imperious kept on fighting all the way through.

Imperial Use
The Imperious didn't have a long role in Imperial use, but in the time it was active, it hunted down and destroyed a Jedi transport ship, killing seven Jedi. However, six months into Imperial rule, it misjumped and was hit by asteroids in orbit of Hoth, being crippled before she could put her shields up. She crash landed just fifteen kilometres from a Jedi outpost, and some of the survivors were the first to attack the Jedi forces during the 300 Jedi's Last Stand. 1,451 of her 2,000 survivors were stormtroopers, and just over 1,100 of these troopers died  when they attacked the Jedi compound on Hoth. The 348 stormtroopers and the 559 surviving crew were picked up by one of the Star Destroyers that came into orbit of the planet during the Last Stand.

Legacy
The survivors would fight valiantly during the war, with some even coming back to Hoth as senior officers during the GCW Battle of Hoth.

In an iconic event, the fifty or so remaining survivors of the Imperious and the few survivors of the Last Stand met in 42 ABY on Hoth by pure coincidence, as both parties were here to mourn their losses. The two sides shook hands and told stories of the war, old enemies now bonding.

In 152 ABY, what was left of the Imperious was placed into a massive Coruscant musuem which told stories about the Empire, the Rebellion, and the Republic that proceeded them.