Crime lord Tyber Zann captured the vessel from Imperial forces in 4 ABY to retrieve data from its memory banks, and abandoned it shortly thereafter, realizing that it would present far too big of a target to both Imperial and Rebel forces. The Eclipse was equipped with a bevy of weapons and other technologies, including gravity well projectors, but chief among its weapons was an axial superlaser, capable of cracking a planet's crust or destroying a capital ship in a single blow.įor much of its existence, the Eclipse was under construction around the planet Kuat. Both a powerful technological tool and a potent psychological weapon, the Eclipse boasted a planet's worth of weaponry and was almost unstoppable.
It was built as a flagship for Emperor Palpatine, who used it after being reborn into one of his clone bodies. The Eclipse was the first Eclipse-class dreadnought ever constructed and the lead ship and prototype of its class. ' That's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen, Urai.' ― Tyber Zann to Urai Fen - Listen ( file info)
