Adjudicator-class Light Carrier

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The  was a Imperial ship designed for supplementing capital ships with fighter and air-to-ground support.

Details
The Adjudicator-class's hull was in the typical Imperial dagger-shape, similar to a Imperial-Class Star Destroyer. It's armament was meager, but this was intended by the designers- the ship was meant to stay at the rear of any pitch battle, relying on it's cargo.

Within the Ajudicator were all the provisions necessary to maintain and launch two dedicated wings of fighters. The typical configuration was one wing of 40 TIE/LN fighters, and two wings of 20 TIE/SA bombers each.

When the Adjudicator's fighter screens failed to protect it from enemy craft, it would turn it's weaponry on them- among which was one bow-mounted turbolaser, which could be devastating against smaller craft. However, it's light armament left it vulnerable to being strafed by enemy bombers.

History
The first Adjudicator-class, the dreadnought of it's class, Adjudicator was first employed against the Rebel Alliance in a skirmish over Kolthis in 1 ABY. The Adjudicator, together with the Imperial-Class Star Destroyers Justice's Scales and Iustitia, intercepted the Recusant-class Vengeance Mission over Kolthis and managed to destroy it.

This early skirmish convinced Kuat of the Adjudicator's usefulness, and the ship's production was moved up in their production queue. Two more Adjudicator-class Light Carriers would join the Imperial-Class Retributive in hunting down convoys escaping from The Battle of Hoth, managing to destroy yet another Recusant-Class, the Wrath's Hammer.

Obsolescence
Though deployed in large numbers in time for the Battle of Endor, the Adjudicator was soon coveted by multiple warlords in the wake of the Emperor's death. By the time Grand Admiral Thrawn returned from the Unknown Regions, they had mostly been either destroyed in their power struggles or in such short supply as to not even make a difference. Though he ordered increased production of the class, the increasing number of the Republic's B-Wings thinned their numbers.

The loss of Kuat further accentuated this fact, leading to the Adjudicator fading into obsolescence.