Intimidator ( Executor - class ) The Intimidator was an " Executor " - class Star Dreadnought used by the Imperial Navy ' s Black Sword Command during the Galactic Civil War . Originally undergoing work at a shipyard in the Core Worlds , it was transferred to the Empire ' s Black - 15 shipyard above the planet N ' zoth in the Koornacht Cluster to free up space for similarly - sized warships . Eight months after the Rebel Alliance ' s victory at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY , the Black Fleet — comprising the " Intimidator " and all warships present , along with their crews — was seized by N ' zoth ' s native Yevetha workers under resistance leader Nil Spaar as part of their mutiny against the Imperials , who had been in the process of withdrawing all military personnel and equipment from the Cluster . Renamed the Pride of Yevetha , the Super Star Destroyer served as Spaar ' s flagship as he was elevated to Viceroy of the Duskhan League during the Black Fleet Crisis , which pitted the Yevethan government against the New Republic under Chief of State Leia Organa Solo . In 16 ABY , the " Pride of Yevetha " was one of numerous vessels that participated in the Great Purge , an ethnic cleansing of the Koornacht Cluster enacted by the xenophobic Yevetha . In an effort to determine the strength of the Duskhan League ' s forces , several New Republic reconnaissance flights were sent into the Cluster , leading to the discovery of the " Pride of Yevetha " in the N ' zoth system . The New Republic ' s leadership was shocked to learn that the Yevetha were in possession of a Star Dreadnought . Unbeknownst to the Yevetha , Imperial personnel captured during the Yevethan mutiny thirteen years before had spent their imprisonment installing slave circuit ry into the Imperial - designed ships , including the Super Star Destroyer , in preparation for a revolt . Their work was completed by 17 ABY , just as a combined New Republic fleet arrived in the N ' zoth system with an ultimatum for Spaar to surrender . Before the two fleets could begin the Battle of N ' zoth , Imperial leader Major Sil Sorannan assumed command of the " Intimidator " — at the same time rejecting its Yevethan name — and activated the slave circuitry , bringing all the Imperial warships of the Black Fleet into hyperspace , with the Imperial throne world of Byss , in the Deep Core , as their destination . However , unknown to the liberated Imperials , Byss had been destroyed six years earlier . The Black Fleet arrived at the remains of the planet and , after a month , had gradually dispersed . The " Intimidator " disappeared , although it was discovered four years later near the Unknown Regions , abandoned and destroyed . Description . The " Intimidator " was a 19 , 000 - meter - long " Executor " - class Star Dreadnought , though like its sister ships , the warship was sometimes referred to as a " Super " - class Star Destroyer . The " Intimidator " was modified beyond its stock statistics ; among its improvements was an additional shield generator mounted on the ship ' s midline . During the vessel ' s time in the hands of the Yevetha , the Imperial captives of Camp Pa ' aal Squadron installed slave circuit ry — a feature that enabled one person to assume remote command of an entire fleet ' s worth of enslaved ships — into the " Intimidator " and the other ships of the Black Fleet . The installation of the slave circuitry had been done piecemeal during their years of captivity , and the last necessary components were assembled and delivered to their respective ships in 17 ABY in preparation for an Imperial revolt . The Yevetha also made several modifications to the " Intimidator " . " Darama " Nil Spaar had three of the warship ' s detention blocks transformed into breederies for his offspring , each possessing forty - eight alcoves serving as birth - casks . For the purpose of housing prisoners , three of the Super Star Destroyer ' s cargo bays were converted into large holding cells , with minimal facilities capable of supporting a thousand beings . The breederies and holding cells were completed by 16 ABY . History . Docked at the Black - 15 shipyard . The " Intimidator " was one of three " Executor " - class warships assigned to the Black Fleet of Black Sword Command , a unit within the Imperial Military tasked with the defense of the Core Worlds . Eight months after the Rebel Alliance ' s victory and the death of Emperor Palpatine at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY , the " Intimidator " was stationed at the Black - 15 shipyard above the Yevethan homeworld of N ' zoth in the Koornacht Cluster , having been transferred from the Core Worlds , where it had been undergoing work , to free up the necessary amount of space for construction of another " Executor " - class vessel . Out of the nine ships undergoing repairs at the Black - 15 dock , only the " Intimidator " was spaceworthy . When Imperial garrison commander Jian Paret received an order to withdraw all military personnel from the system and destroy whatever had to be left behind , Paret used the " Intimidator " as his command ship during the evacuation , having moved to it within an hour after receiving his orders . With only one - third of a crew aboard , and the need to transfer all of the garrison ' s assets and personnel to the warship before destroying the repair yard , Paret was unable to leave as quickly as he had wanted . To avoid any potential hostile moves from the predominantly Yevetha work force , Paret hid the true nature of the Imperial evacuation behind the facade of a departure drill . However , Yevetha underground leader Nil Spaar knew of the imminent Imperial withdrawal and had chosen the time to seize the Black - 15 shipyard and all of the vessels present as part of a plan to revolt against the Imperials five years in the making . With the transfer of the " Victory " - class Star Destroyer " Harridan " from patrol duty to active service at the battlefield at Notak , Spaar saw that the Imperials were essentially defenseless . In Sections 17 and 21 of the " Intimidator " , over a dozen external hatches were rigged to report their status as secured and sealed during an emergency battle - stations lockdown . The Yevetha leader had taken additional precautions should the ship attempt to escape — a package of explosives , disarmed only by a constant signal , would destroy the ship if the shields were activated , blocking the signal and detonating the bombs . With these measures in place , two Yevetha commando teams — one led by Spaar and the other by his second - in - command , Dar Bille — boarded the " Intimidator " through the rigged hatches . Silently and quickly , the two teams converged on the bridge without having to fire a single shot . When they breached the command deck , they killed seven of the Imperial crew present before securing the remainder . As the events unfolded , Imperial Governor Crollick ' s shuttle and a convoy of Imperial transports rose from N ' zoth ' s surface toward the " Intimidator " as the warship slid out of her berth at the shipyard . When the transports began decelerating in preparation for docking , Spaar ordered all of the warship ' s autotargeting batteries to open fire on the inbound ships , a move that killed 20 , 000 Imperials : soldiers , technicians , bureaucrats , and families . Spaar concluded the bloodshed by executing Paret with his dew claw , a retractable blade that emerged from a Yevetha ' s wrist . The Yevetha leader wasted no time in announcing that the remaining crew were now the prisoners of the Duskhan League , the Yevethan government . The other eight Star Destroyers present at the shipyard were also captured . The captive Imperials , approximately 300 , 000 crew members from the " Intimidator " and the " Victory " - class Star Destroyer " Valorous " , were transferred to Pa ' aal , the primary moon of N ' zoth , to serve the Yevetha in operating and constructing their warships . In the service of the Yevetha . By 16 ABY — twelve years after the failed Imperial evacuation of N ' zoth — the Yevetha had learned how to operate the captured ships from their onetime oppressors , who were now prisoners themselves . However , unbeknownst to their overseers , the Imperials had begun the installation of slave circuitry in all the former Imperial warships , work done piecemeal over the years in preparation for a counter - revolt . The " Intimidator " was renamed " Pride of Yevetha " and was pressed into service as the flagship of " Darama " Nil Spaar , viceroy of the Duskhan League . At the time , Dar Bille served as the primate of the warship . Spaar ' s personal staff — including his primary and secondary mates ; his first attaché Eri Palle ; and Vor Duull , the proctor of information science from the thrustship " Aramadia " — were transferred to the " Pride of Yevetha " as well . It was from the bridge of the Super Star Destroyer that Bille , acting on an edict from Spaar , ordered the Yevethan warships to begin the Great Purge , an ethnic cleansing of the Koornacht Cluster . The " Pride of Yevetha " participated in the extermination of a colony of Kubaz at Morning ' s Bell and the capture of a former Imperial factory farm at Pirol - 5 , while the rest of the Black Fleet succeeded in ridding the Cluster of the foreign " vermin . " Though New Republic Chief of State Leia Organa Solo was appalled by the Duskhan League ' s actions , the New Republic could not defend the conquered worlds of the Koornacht Cluster , as they were not members of the galactic government . Certain members of the New Republic Senate were directly opposed to Republic involvement in the conflict , but Organa Solo nonetheless issued an ultimatum for Spaar — the Duskhan League was to withdraw from the worlds it had seized , or the New Republic would declare war . Spaar would not back down , however ; the New Republic was unaware of the League ' s full military strength and the existence of the " Intimidator " , which Spaar could use to his advantage . The New Republic made the first move with a blockade of Doornik - 319 that proved disastrous and prompted members of the Senate to move against their Chief of State . While this internal strife continued , several New Republic reconnaissance flights were made into the Koornacht Cluster to ascertain the Duskhan League ' s military strength . Lieutenant Rone Taggar of the New Republic Fifth Battle Group ' s 21st Recon Group was dispatched in his Recon - X starfighter " Jennie Lee " to the N ' zoth system to record statistical data on the Yevethan forces present . As the five - minute flight proceeded , the " Jennie Lee " on - board R2 - R unit was able to identify " Aramadia " - class thrustships , " Victory " - class and " Imperial " - class Star Destroyers , and a lone " Executor " - class Star Dreadnought — the " Pride of Yevetha " . Taggar ' s data , along with that of the other recon flights throughout the Cluster , was transmitted to the New Republic Defense Force headquarters , where it was reviewed by Organa Solo , Admiral Ackbar , and others . The Tammarian officer Ayddar Nylykerka from the Asset Tracking office , who was on hand to identify the warships of the Black Fleet , was the one who confirmed the presence of the " Intimidator " , knowing it only by its Imperial name . Nylykerka deduced the ship ' s identity from the additional shield generator tower on the warship ' s centerline — a trait common to all late - production " Executor " - class ships . All present to hear the Tammarian ' s revelation realized that nothing in the New Republic Navy could outmatch a Super Star Destroyer . In preparations for war with the Yevetha , the Chief of State dispatched her husband , Commodore Han Solo , to assume command of the New Republic Fifth Fleet . En route , he was captured by the Yevetha and imprisoned on N ' zoth . He was later transferred to one of the " Pride of Yevetha " unused cargo areas , where he and the other captives were intended to be used as living shields in the case of a New Republic attack . Unbeknownst to the Yevetha , members of the Fallanassi , a Force - based religion whose members were adept at creating illusions , had managed to rescue most of the prisoners before their transfer to the Super Star Destroyer . A few Fallanassi had stayed behind in order to project the illusion that all the captives were still present . Spaar used the bridge of the " Pride of Yevetha " as the backdrop of a holorecording designed to lead the Republic into believing that a " Grand Imperial Union " under a Moff " Tragg Brathis " had entered into a mutual agreement with the Duskhan League . Ackbar was able to confirm that both the Grand Imperial Union and Moff Brathis were non - existent , falsifications fabricated by Spaar , but the presence of a sizable amount of Imperial Star Destroyers in the recording was still enough to concern the Republic ' s leadership . Meanwhile , the Wookiee Chewbacca and members of his family , including his son , Lumpawarrump , and cousins Jowdrrl , Shoran , and Dryanta , launched a rescue mission to retrieve Solo from the " Pride of Yevetha " in the N ' zoth system , using New Republic Fleet Intelligence information — such as a technical readout of a Super Star Destroyer — provided by the Yao information broker Formayj . Piloting the light freighter " Millennium Falcon " , Chewbacca utilized firecracker mine s to blind the Super Star Destroyer ' s sensors , allowing him to perform a quick in - system hyperspace jump that brought him to 1 , 100 meters off the " Pride of Yevetha " starboard bow without the gun batteries being able to track him . The Wookiees utilized a hull - cutting ring to board the warship , and Chewbacca , Shoran , and Lumpawarrump traversed through the Super Star Destroyer ' s converted detention blocks , severely damaging the breederies in the process . The strike team eventually arrived at the cargo hold where Solo was being kept . With Solo freed , the group escaped in the " Millennium Falcon " , leaving many of the warship ' s Yevetha crew and soldiers dead from the raid . Following the attack , Spaar focused on replenishing the breederies , but this task was interrupted when three Republic stasis probe s — harbingers of an impending Republic attack — arrived in the N ' zoth system . Spaar rushed to the bridge and ordered that the " Pride of Yevetha " break orbit to intercept and destroy the probes , despite Proctor of Defense Tho Voota ' s fears that N ' zoth would be left undefended . As the " Pride of Yevetha " moved forward , the New Republic fleet emerged from hyperspace , just out of range of the Yevethan fleet ' s batteries . Republic General Etahn A ' baht used the opportunity to deliver a final ultimatum to the Yevetha Viceroy . The Empire strikes back . From the flagship ' s fire control center , the Imperial resistance leader , Major Sil Sorannan , listened patiently , marveling at how the New Republic had matured from the hit - and - run tactics of its predecessor , the Rebel Alliance . When the " Pride of Yevetha " was merely a minute away from being able to fire upon the nearest Republic vessel , Spaar issued his own challenge ; simultaneously , Sorannan began his revolt . Using the slave circuitry that he and his Imperial allies had installed over the time of their captivity , Sorannan assumed command of the Black Fleet , bringing all the Star Destroyers to a halt . While the Yevethan ships continued their attack , Sorannan — identifying himself as acting captain of the " Intimidator " — contacted A ' baht and informed him that his Camp Pa ' aal Squadron was leaving the battle . The long - delayed withdrawal of Black Sword Command was finally completed when the Star Destroyers made the jump to hyperspace , the Imperial throne world of Byss , in the Deep Core , as their destination . With the heart of their fleet gone , the Yevetha were now outnumbered five - to - one . Spaar had been aboard the " Intimidator " when it departed , leaving the Yevetha leaderless . Despite these setbacks , the Duskhan League engaged the New Republic fleet with what they had left : D - type trifoil fighter s and forty - four " Aramadia " - class thrustships . After inflicting heavy casualties , the Yevethan force was obliterated , and the Black Fleet Crisis came to an end . Spaar was taken captive by the Imperials aboard the " Intimidator " ; in revenge for the years of servitude , Sorannan had Spaar placed in an escape pod and launched into hyperspace , where he would eventually die and from which his remains would never be recovered . The Black Fleet eventually arrived in the Beshqek system , but where Byss had once been was merely an asteroid field , created after the throne world had been destroyed by the Galaxy Gun superweapon approximately six years earlier . After a month , the fleet dispersed — some elements defected to the New Republic , while other warships joined up with some of the surviving factions of the Empire . The " Intimidator " vanished entirely ; it was discovered four years later near the Unknown Regions , abandoned and irreparably damaged . Commanders and crew . Before the Yevethan revolt , the " Intimidator " was crewed by one - third of the amount of personnel required to operate the ship . Approximately thirteen years later , in its service to the Duskhan League , the " Pride of Yevetha " personnel included over 15 , 000 Yevetha and 513 veterans from Black Sword Command . Jian Paret . Jian Paret was the commander of the Imperial garrison on N ' zoth in 4 ABY and the supervisor of Black Sword Command ' s withdrawal from the N ' zoth system . He took the " Intimidator " as his command ship during the retreat , as it was the only spaceworthy vessel present at the Black - 15 shipyard . Paret was captured during the Yevetha takeover of the Super Star Destroyer , and he watched helplessly as the Yevetha turned the warship ' s gun batteries on the evacuation shuttles . Immediately after , Nil Spaar executed him with a slash of the Yevetha ' s dew claw . Nil Spaar . Nil Spaar , before becoming viceroy of the Duskhan League , was a Yevetha resistance leader who personally led the uprising that captured the " Intimidator " . By 16 ABY , he had ascended to the position of viceroy and was regarded as the " darama " , or " chosen one . " In the same year , he took the renamed " Pride of Yevetha " as his flagship , transferring most of the crew from his previous flagship , the thrustship " Aramadia " , to the Super Star Destroyer , including his attaché Eri Palle , Proctor of Information Science Vor Duull , his breeding mates , and his honor guard . The Viceroy had three of his flagship ' s detention blocks converted into breederies for his children . Brutal and xenophobic , Spaar oversaw the " cleansing " of the Koornacht Cluster and manipulated strife within the New Republic Senate to his advantage . His plans came to an abrupt halt when the Imperials of Camp Pa ' aal Squadron revolted and assumed control of the " Intimidator " and Black Fleet , taking Spaar captive in the process . Sil Sorannan put Spaar in an escape pod and launched him out into hyperspace , from which he was never recovered . Dar Bille . Dar Bille served as Nil Spaar ' s second - in - command during the Yevetha uprising , leading the second of two commando teams in the capture of the " Intimidator " during the failed Imperial withdrawal from N ' zoth . Twelve years later , he was the primate , or commander , of the " Pride of Yevetha " during its operational service with the Duskhan League . Bille oversaw the " Pride of Yevetha " participation in the Great Purge , and he was still in command when the warship was seized by Camp Pa ' aal Squadron during the Battle of N ' zoth . Sil Sorannan . Sil Sorannan served as a major in Black Sword Command , having previously worked with a research team attempting to drop bombs from hyperspace and into realspace . During the Yevetha uprising , Sorannan was one of the 300 , 000 Imperials captured and forced to aid the Yevetha in operating their newly - acquired warships , including the " Intimidator " . Over time , Sorannan became the leader of Camp Pa ' aal Squadron , the Imperial resistance movement . He oversaw the construction and distribution of the slave circuit technology that , when the time was right , would give him complete control of the Black Fleet . While aboard the " Pride of Yevetha " — which he often had to remind himself was properly known as the " Intimidator " — he served in the fire control center of the Super Star Destroyer , maintaining the data server for target registry . Before the Battle of N ' zoth could properly commence , Sorannan began his revolt and assumed command as acting captain of the " Intimidator " . He activated the slave circuitry , tasking the Imperial warships with jumping into hyperspace and heading for the Imperial throne world Byss . En route , he utilized his experience of dropping bombs into hyperspace when he left Nil Spaar stranded there in an escape pod . Behind the scenes . The " Intimidator " first appeared in the novel " Before the Storm " , the first book of " The Black Fleet Crisis " trilogy , written by Michael P . Kube - McDowell and released in 1996 . The warship went on to appear in the other two books of the trilogy and was mentioned in later sourcebooks , which revealed its fate following the Battle of N ' zoth . The " Intimidator " received its first visual depiction in " The Official Star Wars Fact File 22 " , released in May of 2002 , six years after the publication of " Before the Storm " . Though the " Intimidator " is continually referred to as a " " Super " - class Star Destroyer " throughout the trilogy , the second book in the series , " Shield of Lies " , was the first to provide the designation " " Executor " - class Star Destroyer " for the " Intimidator " and her sister ships . However , recent sources , such as the StarWars . com Databank ' s Super Star Destroyer entry and an article on the Wizards of the Coast Web site , have updated the name as " " Executor " - class Star Dreadnought , " in addition to increasing the length of the class from 8 , 000 meters ( as reported in the books of the trilogy ) to 19 , 000 meters . This article reflects these changes . Although " Before the Storm " and " Tyrant ' s Test " make it clear that the majority of the " Intimidator " Imperial crew was captured during the Yevetha revolt , both the " Star Wars Encyclopedia " and " A Guide to the Star Wars Universe " , Third Edition state that the entire crew was killed during the takeover . This article assumes the canon icity of both " Before the Storm " and " Tyrant ' s Test " .