Galactic Star Destroyer

The Galactic Star Destroyer was a short-lived classification introduced and used by Cybe Drives. Only two ship classes, the Infinity-class and the Whitestar-class were ever produced due to the cost of the ships, essentially being small superweapons.

Characteristics
The Galactic Star Destroyer was the brainchild of Zachery Brom, a Cybe Drives executive and designer. Zachery envisioned a series of warships, the size of the, with the firepower of a.

To this end, his first design featured four layers of stacked on top of each other to support the amount of emplacements. In addition, a cheaper version of the was domestically produced by Cybe Drives, the Phoenix Cannon. The Phoenix Cannon was comparable to the axial superlaser in power, but took much longer to recharge, yet was capable of destroying a small.

History
Allegedly taking inspiration from the, a modified , Zachery Brom designed the Galactic Star Destroyer class, with its first product being the Infinity-class Star Destroyer.

The Infinity-class was the testbed for the Galactic Star Destroyer. The goal was to fit several hundred guns over a hull of less than seven-thousand meters in addition to a superweapon. This required stacking several dozen gun emplacements on top of each other, limiting their view and range, making it less effective at close range.

Underneath these guns was a very thick layer of armour, and both of these things weighed down the ship's speed, resulting in the ship's need for fourteen engines.

A prototype model was produced over Cybe in 37 ABY, but was destroyed in what was suspected to be a attack. A second model was produced, after which the Infinity-class was considered too expensive, and it was cancelled. The second ship was sold to the Varino Imperium for.

The following product was the Whitestar-class Galactic Star Destroyer. allegedly a commission by the. Also designed by Zachery Brom, he was much more conservative with the ship's design, and several ships were produced for the. Eventually, a number of ships entered service with the.

A handful of these ships were pressed into service with the Federation Navy during the Infinity War. They were however all destroyed the war.

Legacy
Its one remarking feature, the Phoenix Cannon, would be used again on Cybe Drives' later warship, the CY-610 dreadnought. The CY-610 was rarely considered an off-shoot of the Galactic Star Destroyer series.