Lusankya The Lusankya , originally known as Executor II , was an " Executor " - class Star Dreadnought built by Kuat Drive Yards , as the sister ship to the " Executor " , which was built at Fondor . Following its construction , the ship was buried beneath the surface of Coruscant as an emergency evacuaction craft for the Emperor , where it served as Ysanne Isard ' s private prison after his death , and later as her command ship during the Bacta War . When Isard was defeated , the " Lusankya " was acquired by the New Republic , serving in its starfleet until its destruction in the Yuuzhan Vong War . Characteristics . The " Lusankya " was the second " Executor " - class Super Star Destroyer to be constructed . It was 19 kilometers long , twelve times the length of an " Imperial I " - class Star Destroyer . It could carry more than 5 , 000 weapons , at least 12 TIE Fighter squadrons , at least 200 other combat and support ships , two prefabricated garrison bases , and enough stormtroopers and AT - ATs to impose the Empire ' s will on any star system . The " Lusankya " was designed to be a variant of the " Executor " - class , focusing more on planetary occupation without a need for supporting vessels . As such , it dispensed with some heavy turbolaser batteries in exchange for more point - defense weaponry . History . Construction and placement on Coruscant . The " Lusankya " was built concurrently with her sister - ship , the " Executor " . During construction , both ships were provisionally named " Executor " to make it appear as if only one ship were being built . However , while the " Executor " was commissioned into Imperial service after completion , the " Lusankya " was taken to Coruscant and buried beneath the planet ' s surface . The vessel and its repulsorlift cradle were hidden inside a superframe of girders and electronics before the burial , and were claimed to be a large planetary shield generator . The cityscape was subsequently rebuilt over the ship to hide its location . Not knowing all of the details surrounding the burial , some New Republic observers later speculated that either all the witnesses to this event had been executed , or that Emperor Palpatine had used the Force on a massive scale to command everyone to forget what they saw . As for the purpose of the burial , it was theorized that the " Lusankya " was meant to provide Palpatine with a secure means of escape , in case Coruscant was invaded by hostile forces . Only a select few were made aware of its existence , location , and purpose . Ysanne Isard ' s private prison . A portion of the " Lusankya " served as a private prison managed by Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard . Isard was able to travel back and forth to the " Lusankya " by a network of private tunnel shuttles that were connected between the city and the ship . One of these shuttles went to the Galactic Museum , another to a 43rd - floor foyer in the Imperial Palace , and another to an old subcommittee room in the former Imperial Senate Building . In interrogating the " Lusankya " prisoners , Isard was ruthless , employing any means necessary — including torture , drugs , and psychological conditioning — to learn what she desired . She even turned prisoners , usually captured Rebels , into sleeper agent s . These agents would then be returned to their families , friends , and colleagues , where Isard would use them to spy on the Rebellion , perform sabotage , and assassinate enemies . Corran Horn learned of the prison when the Corellian Diktat ' s greatest rival was murdered by his aide . The aide had been taken to the " Lusankya " and turned into a sleeper agent , then returned to perform the assassination . After committing the murder , the aide repeated the word " Lusankya " over and over . Though no one outside Isard ' s circle knew of the " Lusankya " location , it regardless came to be infamously known as Ysanne Isard ' s private prison . Rebel Alliance General Jan Dodonna was sent there following his capture shortly following the Battle of Yavin . Tycho Celchu was also sent there following his capture during an espionage mission to Coruscant in 5 ABY . Isard tried to condition Celchu into one of her agents , but the efforts rendered him catatonic . He was eventually transferred to Akrit ' tar , but escaped from that facility and returned to the Rebellion . The reputation for Isard ' s prisoners to be sleeper agents was so strong that Celchu was not trusted by even close compatriots . During the Liberation of Coruscant in the following year , the controls to Horn ' s fighter were seized by an override code and he appeared to crash into the cityscape and was presumed dead . This and other evidence pointed to Celchu , and he was branded a traitor . However , Horn was not dead , and the events of his " crash " had been orchestrated by Isard and framed on Celchu . Horn was placed aboard the " Lusankya " , where he eventually met Jan Dodonna . From him , Horn learned that many people washed out of Isard ' s indoctrination process , and were rendered catatonic in the process — the other prisoners referred to them as " sleepers . " Horn also learned of a suspicious inconsistency within the prison : in the main cavern where the prisoners worked , a rock would " fall up " if thrown high enough . This was because the artificial gravity of the Star Dreadnought was rotated so that prisoners were in effect standing upside down , a tactic employed by Isard so if anyone tried to escape by digging " up , " they would actually go deeper into the prison , making them easier to capture . Eventually Horn was able to escape from the prison complex , during which he found a library complex on the " Lusankya " and discovered that not only had he washed out of the indoctrination process , but so had Celchu . In addition to this information , he was able to find out who was the real traitor within Rogue Squadron . After further searching , he found a blaster in the library ' s copy of " The Complete History of Corvis Minor " , and a private tunnel shuttle that allowed him to leave the " Lusankya " . The shuttle took him to a closed - off section of the Galactic Museum , where Horn then learned that he had , in fact , never left Coruscant . Breaking free of Coruscant . After Horn escaped , Isard knew that the New Republic would soon find the " Lusankya " and capture her if she remained . Isard had the crew break the ship free of the planet . While leaving Coruscant , the " Lusankya " devastated over 259 square kilometers of the planet ' s surface , killing untold millions . The " Lusankya " blasted its way through the two planetary shield levels , pausing to exchange fire with an orbiting Golan space defense platform before jettisoning the lift cradle and departing the Coruscant system . The Battle for Thyferra . The " Lusankya " then traveled to Thyferra after " Xucphra " conducted a political coup that installed Ysanne Isard as the planetary leader . Because the New Republic was unwilling to interfere with the internal politics of a world , Corran Horn , Wedge Antilles , and the other members of Rogue Squadron resigned their commissions in the New Republic fleet and began gathering resources to continue to fight against Isard without the New Republic ' s support . Upon arriving at Thyferra , the " Lusankya " was joined by the " Imperial - II " class Star Destroyers " Avarice " and " Virulence " and the " Victory " - class Star Destroyer " Corrupter " . Over the next few months , the Rogues slowly worked to build up their forces , while whittling down the Imperial forces to the point where the two forces could engage each other . The " Corrupter " was destroyed at Alderaan when an automated Alderaanian war cruiser , the " Valiant " , joined the Rogues . Commander Antilles was able to talk Sair Yonka — the Captain of the " Avarice " — to take his ship and leave Isard ' s service . That left the " Lusankya " and the " Virulence " . Once Isard ' s forces discovered the Rogue ' s space station base at Yag ' Dhul , the " Lusankya " and the " Virulence " were sent to destroy it . But when they arrived , the Rogues jumped to hyperspace , and the station appeared to be " very " heavily armed , with more than three hundred proton torpedo and concussion missile launcher signals . The " Lusankya " was caught by the station ' s tractor beam , but was released when the " Virulence " intercepted and was caught in the beam . The " Lusankya " retreated from the system and left her fighters behind in her haste to flee . The station ordered the " Virulence " to surrender or be destroyed , to which the " Virulence " complied . After the " Virulence " crew had left , the pirate in charge of the station , Booster Terrik , took over the ship without firing a single torpedo . The captain of the " Lusankya " , Joak Drysso , returned to Thyferra expecting a battle . However , when the ship slowed to sublight , there was nothing but normal traffic . Shortly after the " Lusankya " arrived , a Star Destroyer arrived in the system . It was the " Avarice " , now renamed the " Freedom " . The " Freedom " had carried the Rogues to Thyferra . The Rogues began to attack the " Lusankya " , and when they fired a salvo of their proton torpedoes , a large salvo of torpedoes and missiles from the freighter traffic in the system hit the " Lusankya " . Antilles had convinced a number of freighters to join the effort . They were equipped with heavy torpedoes , but were not given targeting sensors so they would not appear as hostile on Imperial scopes . Instead , the freighter ' s weapons were slaved to Rogue Squadron ' s targeting computers . The " Freedom " and the " Valiant " also concentrated their firepower on the " Lusankya " . The " Freedom " was severely damaged ; however , the " Valiant " , having been ignored by Captain Drysso , had outmaneuvered its huge opponent . The " Valiant " had managed to slip and remain behind the " Lusankya " , where it could target the huge engine array at leisure ; the lack of a fighter screen and the low amount of tail guns on the " Executor " - class design allowed the " Valiant " to escape serious damage . Soon the " Virulence " appeared in the Thyferra system , but it was no longer under Imperial control . A squadron of A - Wings led by Pash Cracken had sprung upon the " Virulence " during its standoff with the Yag ' Dhul station and had destroyed the Imperial TIE fighters , and now traveled on the ship after its capture by Booster Terrik . They now launched into the fray as the " Virulence " turned its weapons on the " Lusankya " . Commander Antilles then decided to ask the " Lusankya " to surrender , seeing as how the starship would not last much longer . Drysso refused to surrender and seemed driven to insanity by the events of the past several days . He was preparing to ram Thyferra with the " Lusankya " itself , against the wishes of the crew , when he was killed by his aide . His aide , Acting - Captain Waroen , surrendered the ship to Antilles . Isard had appeared to have died when Captain Celchu destroyed a shuttle that was believed to have been carrying her . Celchu credited the kill to Lieutenant Horn ' s targeting . After the Bacta War . The " Lusankya " was severely damaged after the battle for Thyferra . The area where the prison was had been breached . Fortunately for the prisoners , they were not on board during the battle , as Isard had them shipped to other facilities , believing Horn ' s escape had ruined the previously inescapable prison . As the ship had been surrendered to him , Wedge Antilles was the acting commander of the " Lusankya " . In that capacity , he performed the marriage ceremony of Corran Horn and Mirax Terrik , with Tycho and Iella Wessiri as witnesses . Antilles , Horn , and the rest of the squadron then rejoined the New Republic armed forces , when it was discovered an " error " had occurred which resulted in their earlier resignations failing to be formally logged in the squadron member ' s files . The council then passed a resolution approving what the Rogues had done , making the entire operation " fait accompli " for the Republic . The " Lusankya " then left the Thyferra system and was taken to a secret location , where repairs and upgrades were made . Rumors were spread that the ship was destroyed — that either the damage was such that the ship couldn ' t be repaired , or that the " Lusankya " was salvaged for parts . The ship ' s sharp lines were eventually restored , and two large Rebel crests were painted on its sides . The original prison complex was also removed , with a medical quarantine complex installed in its place . The secrecy over the repairs was such that even some members of the council were unaware of the " Lusankya " continued existence until the military made them aware of it . Ysanne Isard , who had slipped away from the Thyferra system at the end of the Bacta War , had spent several years in seclusion . She finally reappeared in an attempt to retake control of her beloved " Lusankya " from the New Republic . By plotting the downfall of Delak Krennel and his Ciutric Hegemony , Isard hoped to keep the New Republic distracted long enough for her to steal back her Super Star Destroyer . However , she was outguessed by Booster Terrik , Mirax Terrik , and Iella Wessiri , who were waiting for her when she arrived . Isard attempted to kill Wessiri with her holdout blaster , but failed , as the latter returned fire and instantly ended her life . New Republic Service . After Isard ' s death , the " Lusankya " entered regular New Republic service . The ship spent much of its time until 11 ABY in the Scarl shipyards , acting as a medical research facility in case the Empire attempted further biological warfare after seeing the devastation done by the Krytos virus during the Liberation of Coruscant . The ship was designed with new quarantine facilities which included a containment zone where no living creature was allowed to enter . This area was serviced strictly by droids so that , if necessary , the containment zone could be destroyed with minimal loss of life . When the surviving original prisoners of the " Lusankya " were freed , they , along with Rogue Squadron , were held on the " Lusankya " quarantine facilities so that medical experts could confirm that neither the prisoners nor the Rogues were carrying any biological weapons within them . In addition to refitting it for biomedical operations , the New Republic also succeeded in reducing the crew requirement for the warship . Further , the " Lusankya " was refitted with better armor than Star Dreadnoughts still in Imperial service . Several other systems were also redesigned to take advantage of having the extra available space . The ship was placed under the command of Wedge Antilles and used as a base for the reformed , multi - fighter Rogue Squadron he had been assigned to oversee . Besides Rogue Squadron itself , over 100 other ships also assigned to its service were stationed aboard " Lusankya " . The first mission it undertook for the New Republic was the Battle of Phaeda in 11 ABY . Later in 12 ABY , she again served with the New Republic at the Orinda campaign . The " Lusankya " served in the New Republic fleet for nearly twenty years . She participated in the Battle of Borleias during the Yuuzhan Vong War , where she helped protect the Republic stronghold on Borleias over the course of a month . After taking heavy damage due to attrition , it was decided that she would be abandoned . The " Lusankya " crew was slowly taken off , while her weapons were dismantled and transferred to other warships . In their place , New Republic engineers installed a massive hollow spear , known as the Beltway that ran the length of the ship underneath her hull , which was then filled with high explosives . When the time came to finally evacuate Borleias , the " Lusankya " was sent to collide into the Domain Hul worldship . With a fleet of Republic warships escorting him , Commander Eldo Davip was able to reach the worldship and impale the " Lusankya " hull into it before escaping the doomed ship . Both vessels were obliterated , allowing New Republic forces to withdraw among the chaos . Commanders and crew . The names of most of the " Lusankya " command officers during the Bacta War are known . With the exception of her Captain and the Colonel commanding her two TIE Fighter wings , most were apparently relatively junior in rank , perhaps a reflection of the irregular circumstances in which the ship had been put into service . Less is known about her officers and crew in New Republic service ; she was commanded by General Wedge Antilles for several years beginning in 11 ABY , and at the time of her destruction in 28 ABY , she had been assigned a crew of politically inconvenient misfits led by Commander Eldo Davip . Behind the scenes . The " Lusankya " was named after the , the infamous prison . Author Michael A . Stackpole stated , " I wanted it to sound much like the inescapable prison in Moscow because I wanted the " Lusankya " to be inescapable . " In his endnotes , Jason Fry , one of the writers for " The Essential Guide to Warfare " , cited the " Lusankya " emergence from the cityscape of Coruscant as the goofiest thing in the entire Expanded Universe , also claiming that the only way it could get any goofier is if " [ the " Lusankya " ] bridge crew were Jaxxon , Reist , and Waru . "