Caelator-class Star Destroyer

Caelator-class Star Destroyer

"Phew, I honestly thought when they said demotion they meant something like being forced to work on Venator scrapyards! This is definitely much better than that, I always heard serving on a Caelator was a lot easier than in other places. These almost never see battle either, right?"

- Some unfortunate Imperial Officer prior to the destruction of the Caelator-class Star Destroyer he served on.

The  was a class of warship produced by Kuat Drive Yards for the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War and later during the Great Galactic War. The Caelator-class would come to serve on both sides of the Empire after the Galactic Empire fractured into the New Empire and Final Order.

Details
Designed from the get-go to be a replacement for the Venator and to complement the lack of fighters aboard a standard Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the Caelator would feature an extensive hangar at the end of the split on the hull, however unlike the Venator, this hangar would not be hidden behind blast doors, rather it would be left out in the open, however it was equipped with high power and highly redundant shielding systems to protect the vulnerable hangar. One of the features that set this vessel apart was the open air deck that the hangars were connected to. This deck allowed the cruiser to exceed the available hangar space and land spacecraft directly outside the hangar's atmospheric shields. This feature allowed the Caelator to enter atmosphere and directly insert vehicles that were incapable of extra-atmospheric travel such as the Imperial LAAT/le Atmospheric Police Gunship, or the TIE Striker/Reaper models, all of which were either completely incapable of spacial operation or were out of their element in space.

Behind the scenes
This ship was created using the Lego Digital Designer.