The Vensenor, a retired Venator-class Star Destroyer, served as the home base for the Galactic Empire's Vensenor Flight Academy. During the Clone Wars conflict, Bythen Forral, a skilled starfighter ace and then a captain within the Galactic Republic Navy, was stationed on the Vensenor. This Star Destroyer later became the foundation for the Empire's flight academy of the same name while in orbit around the planet of Arkanis; the academy trained naval officers and pilots under the supervision of Commandant Forral. The Vensenor Flight Academy's graduates distinguished themselves by receiving an unusually high number of combat decorations, but the academy also produced a disproportionately large number of defectors (helped by undercover resistance operative Gola Chall) compared to other institutions in the overall Imperial Academy system.
The Vensenor made its debut in the canon timeline within the Dawn of Rebellion sourcebook for Star Wars Roleplaying, released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2018. A typographical error in the sourcebook once rendered the Venator's designation as "Vensensor." Within Star Wars Legends continuity, the first mention of the Vensenor came through a reference to Vensenor Flight Academy in Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments from the Rim, a supplement for West End Games' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, authored by Simon Smith and Eric S. Trautmann and published by West End Games in 1993. An indirect reference to the Vensenor appeared in X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble, the second book of the Star Wars: X-Wing series, penned by Michael A. Stackpole and issued by Bantam Spectra in 1996.