The Emissary-class Republic Cruiser, a type of heavy cruiser, served the Galactic Republic and its Republic Defense Coalition throughout the High Republic Era. These Emissary-class starships, products of a peaceful time, were built to represent the Republic and thus looked more like art pieces, adorned with spires and crenellations. As an example, the Third Horizon cruiser was dispatched to the Hetzal system amidst the Great Hyperspace Disaster to aid in the effort to protect the system from hazardous hyperspace wreckage.