#giant supercarrier command center

[swan2swan]

People don’t Get what Super Star Destroyers are, really. 

They’re  not supposed to be invincible battleships. I mean, they are, but the Executor isn’t supposed to be wading into a battle zone. She’s there to end battles and intimidate people--and that’s overkill, really. 

The point of an SSD is to get in the middle of a star cluster where you can’t find a planet to safely put down bases and supply lines without saboteurs and to become the new base.

That hangar underneath is big enough to dock multiple Star Destroyers. Imagine how many Gozanti cruisers, escort carriers, and light freighters could fit inside. You dock a hundred small transports in there, launch to a star system, and deploy them fully fueled, crewed, rested, and linked to one of a thousand command hubs.

That’sa full metropolis there. I’m sure there are countless repair bays, warehouses, garrisons, and weapons depots nestiled inside that cityscape, all protected beneath shield domes and artillery pieces. Your garrison on Bagtaki IV just suffered damage because terrorists snuck in a bomb? The training center five kilometers from the bow just now certified another twenty troops for combat, they’ll be there in three hours. Furthermore, Carida has already dispatched a transport carrying a hundred more graduates, and they’re scheduled to arrive in two days--they can take the bunks of those cadets, and the other troops who will be shipped out soon. A skirmish with pirates cost the local garrison three TIE fighters? The ship carries two hundred surplus fighters, freshly loaded from their last stop at a shipyard system, they’ll put three TIEs on the next Gozanti to arrive with a cleared schedule. 

It’s a command ship. The purpose is to project power. There’s no need to worry about atmospheric reentry, land routes, weather...yeah, the thing can methodically eradicate every major city from a continent in a matter of hours, but really, does it need to? Summon every governor from a hundred lightyears around to attend a meeting on the bridge, give them some game plans, and then send each of them back to their planet with a thousand fresh stormtroopers, two dozen starfighters, and maybe some armored ground units. That’s a much more productive way to spend an afternoon.