Hunter-destroyers, sometimes written as hunter destroyers, were swift pursuit vessels utilized by the Galactic Empire. They were equipped with both torpedoes and laser cannons.
A squadron of these hunter destroyers gave chase to the stolen Imperial starship that violently departed from Gordon within the Norton Asteroid Belt. They inflicted substantial damage on the fleeing vessel, ultimately causing its destruction above the planet Yavin.
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The TIE/LN starfighter owes its conceptual origins to the hunter destroyer.
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The chase involving the Imperial starship through the asteroid field served as the inspiration for the later pursuit of the Millennium Falcon into the asteroids of the Hoth system.
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