Pride of Tarlandia / Legends The Pride of Tarlandia was a battlecruiser that served as a communication and coordination unit in Imperial fleet operations . Characteristics . The " Pride of Tarlandia " was of a different design than the " Imperial " - class Star Destroyers , having reactors positioned just inside a cargo bay , instead of in isolated , separate chambers , as on the " Imperial " - class . It also had extensive jamming capabilities . The vessel also stood out in a fleet consisting mostly of " Imperial " - class Star Destroyers , as Rebel starfighters singled it out as one of the larger Destroyers and the main communications ship . History . The ship was present during the Battle of Endor , where it was found to be the main communications ship used by the Imperial fleet . It was aided in its communications role by the Star Destroyers " Chimaera " and " Avenger " . It also acted as the second - in - command to the fleet ' s flagship , the " Executor " . The ship went into a rough battle with a Mon Calamari Star Cruiser and emerged victorious , having destroyed the other ship . Because of the damage it had sustained during the duel , Lando Calrissian decided to attempt a fighter run while it was still vulnerable and its shields were weakened enough . The " Millennium Falcon " , Wedge Antilles , Merrick Simms , and Green Wing went in low enough to avoid the ship ' s bigger guns , did a high - speed power - dive perpendicular to the ship ' s long axis , and raced along the hull while under heavy fire . Green Wing was hit and crashed into the front batteries on the port side of the vessel , allowing the other fighters a chance to hit the power reactors located inside a cargo bay . Pulling out of the bay after a heavy strike , the surviving Rebel fighters escaped as the ship was destroyed in a series of increasing explosions . The ship ' s destruction greatly hampered the operations of the rest of the fleet and caused the scanner jamming of the Rebel fleet to stop . Because of both its destruction and the " Executor " destruction shortly thereafter , command then fell to Gilad Pellaeon ' s ship , the " Chimaera " . Behind the scenes . The communications ship appeared in the ( p . 191 ) , and was described as " one of the larger Destroyers " , indicating a heavier class of Star Destroyer or a light Super Star Destroyer . It ' s possible that the communications ship appeared in the film itself , due to one scene showing a starfighter attack on an Imperial command tower that had one main bridge and at least five other similar viewports , visually dissimilar from the ISD - I and ISD - II towers seen elsewhere in the original trilogy . A larger blob visible in distant views of the battle is also a possible representation of this vessel , though that angle could simply have been showing two ships overlapping . Behind - the - scenes shots reveal that the bridge tower shown in this shot was a detailed stand - alone FX model of a command tower rather than part of a larger ship model . Shots of the " Millennium Falcon " passing by the tower also showed it as a bigger structure compared with the " Avenger " < nowiki > ' < / nowiki > s tower , which the " Falcon " perched on in the . The ship ' s name , as well as its ship classification as a battlecruiser , were later given in the 2012 guidebook " The Essential Guide to Warfare " . In addition , the same source also revealed that it was Death Squadron ' s second in command .