Terror
"The command ship Terror is en-route to Imdaar, where it will likely deploy a full wing of the phantom V-38s."
―Admiral Gial Ackbar, while briefing the missionThe Terror was an Executor-class Star Dreadnought serving the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. Commanded by Admiral Sarn, the Terror was tasked with protecting the development of a new cloaking device intended for the TIE Phantom starfighter, and was equipped with one of the devices itself, making it invisible to both sensors and the naked eye. During a visit by Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader to supervise the new starfighter's deployment in 3 ABY, two Rebel saboteurs infiltrated the Terror. The infiltrators, Rookie One and Ru Murleen, succeeded in stealing a TIE Phantom and used it to destroy the Terror's main reactor while the ship was docked with the TIE Phantom factory over Imdaar Alpha. Lord Vader escaped the Terror just before the reactor exploded, destroying the Star Dreadnought, but executed Sarn for his incompetence before departing.
Description
"It's darker than Sarlacc's belly down here."
―Rookie One on the Terror's sewersAt nineteen kilometers long,the Executor-class Star DreadnoughtTerror was among the largest battleships serving the Galactic Empire. Like every vessel of its class, the Terror's gray hull was approximately arrowhead-shaped when seen from above. The upper surface of the ship consisted of a smooth hull enclosing a central island of habitable sections and a trapezoidal command tower toward the rear. Its underside was covered with superstructure and the thirteen red-glowing engines that drove it through space.The Terror decloaks.
When the Terror was assigned to the TIE Phantom project, it was equipped with a cloaking devicepowered by stygium crystals.The cloaking device made the Terror invisible both to the naked eye and to sensor systems aboard other starships. Approaching Imperial vessels had to transmit the proper security code before the ship would decloak and permit them to dock. Once the cloaking device was deactivated, the Terror became visible from bow to stern, completing the process in under ten seconds.The Terror was equipped to serve as a carrier for the Empire's fleet of TIE Phantoms. A series of adjoining service hangars, divided by blast doors, held hundreds of the cloaking device-equipped starfighters mounted on racks along the walls. Mechanical arms removed each TIE Phantom from its rack for launch or maintenance. The fighters could be moved through the ship while suspended from ceiling-mounted rails running through cavernous rooms crossed by walkways and retractable bridges. Additional hangars on both sides of the ship provided access for shuttles and other vessels. Besides the TIE Phantoms stationed aboard the Terror, at least one of these hangars could store a number of TIE interceptors mounted from its ceiling.The Terror's bridge, located in the command tower, contained two crew pits divided by a walkway leading to the large forward viewports. The ship also had a meditation chamber for the use of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader.This pressurized spherical chamber contained equipment that enabled the Sith Lord to quickly remove and replace his helmet.The Star Dreadnought had its own sewer system: a network of interconnected tunnels carrying waste material beneath walkways. Access panels in the floor of the deck above provided entry to the sewers.The ship's main reactor occupied a circular chamber surrounded by beam focusers that prevented it from going critical. A series of large tunnels throughout the superstructure provided access to the reactor. Filled with moving machinery and periodically divided by force fields powered by shield generators, the tunnels were large enough for a starfighter to fly through. At least one tunnel from the reactor core led outside the ship.History
"Shoot out the beam focusers. The reactor should go critical and blow, taking this ship and all these blasted fighters with it."
―Ru MurleenThe Terror was among several Super Star Destroyers built by the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil Warand entered service under the command of Admiral Sarnby 3 ABY.For some years, Grand Admiral Martio Batch had been developing a practical cloaking device at his research facility on the moon Imdaar Alpha. Cloaking devices had once been widespread, powered by stygium crystals mined from Aeten II in the Dreighton Nebula. When the mines ran dry, the technology fell out of use until Batch employed the Empire's Tarkin superweapon to destroy Aeten II, releasing thousands of stygium crystals into space. Batch then began using the crystals to create a fleet of cloaked starfighters—modified V38 assault fighters known as TIE Phantoms.The Grand Admiral requisitioned the Terrorto serve as command ship for a fleet comprising at least two Imperial-class Star Destroyersprotecting the project.The Star Dreadnought was also equipped with a cloaking device and outfitted to serve as a carrier for the TIE Phantoms.The Terror's destruction
Following the Imperial victory over the Alliance to Restore the Republic at the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY,the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader visited the Terror to supervise the new starfighters' final field tests. From aboard the Star Dreadnought, Vader watched as TIE Phantoms from Sigma Squadron intercepted and destroyed a flight group of Rebel X-wings patrolling the region of space known as the Dreighton Triangle. After the field tests concluded, the Dark Lord ordered Sarn to return the Terror to Imdaar Alpha and begin the final preparations for launching the TIE Phantom fleet against the Rebellion.The Rebel Alliance learned of the Empire's plans and dispatched pilots Ru Murleen and Rookie One to Imdaar to infiltrate the Terror and steal a TIE Phantom for study. When the Terror arrived at Imdaar and prepared to dock with Batch's cloaked facility, the Rebels approached in a supply shuttle stolen from the supply platform on the planet and were allowed to dock. The intruders were soon discovered, but they used the Terror's sewer to evade capture and reach a service hangar, where they boarded a TIE Phantom. The Imperials quickly sealed the outer bay doors to prevent their escape, but the Rebel pilots flew the stolen fighter through the Star Dreadnought's superstructure to its main reactor, destroying the beam focusers around it before escaping. As the Terror's reactor began to overload, Vader executed Sarn for his failure before fleeing the doomed Star Dreadnought. The reactor exploded soon afterward, destroying the Terror. The explosion revealed the TIE Phantom factory, allowing the Rebels to fly inside and destroy it, ending the TIE Phantom project.Commanders and crew
