Hello there and welcome to Star Wars Lore. Today's video is on the Pretaul Mark II class battle cruiser. Our built by Kuat Drive Arts as a replacement for the smaller Pretaul battle cruiser that was built during the time of the Republic, the Pretaul Mark II is considered to be the largest battle cruiser designed known. Now because I didn't build them all the same size, their length tended to vary from between 4,800 to 8,000 meters long. According to the Naxas Warcolder system which is used to define a Starship's classification from its length, for 8,000 meters long pre-tours were technically dreadnoughts not battle cruisers. But in this case an exemption was made and it was classified as a battle cruiser because its armament was considered to be pretty poor when compared to other dreadnoughts. As a battle cruiser however the Pretaul Mark II was pretty well armed, possessing some 60 quite heavy turbo lasers, 40 medium turbo laser batteries, 30 twin iron cannons, 10 twin long range iron cannon batteries and 10 heavy tractor beam emitters. It was also equipped with some pretty decent hull armor and some strong defluxed shields. And for propulsion the Pretaul have 3 primary engines and 4 secondary engines, and much like the Super Star Destroyer, the Pretaul didn't have a visible reactor bulb on the bottom of the ship like normal Star Destroyers, having its reactor equipment hiding within thick layers of armor instead. The Pretaul Mark II also comes with a hangar bay but unlike other ships from the Star Destroyer family who had their hangars on the underside of the ship, the Pretaul had its hangar up front in their nose. Now although its size wasn't much bigger than that of a Star Destroyer's hangar, because Sue carries some 125' as well as a number of shuttles and walkers. And for those of you who are wondering what that big cylinder on the back of the ship is as well, it's the ship's transport ring which can be used to store many things like supplies and equipment. The Pretaul carried a crew of some 109,000 officers and enlisted crew. And unlike many others of the Star Destroyer line, the Pretaul wasn't given a large T-shaped bridge tower. Instead it was given a command bridge that was similar in appearance to that of the Vanator and Secular class Star Destroyers. However unlike the Vanator and Secular Bridges which were raised up and exposed, the Pretaul's command bridge was kept low and close to the surrounding superstructure, thus providing a much smaller target profile. At a spot being a pretty decent design from quiet drive yards, only a handful of these ships were actually ever built, simply because Imperial Strategies didn't favor Batacruz's designs. And since the Pretaul cost 5 times more than one Star Destroyer and wasn't considered to be as versatile as a Star Destroyer, or even as effective at being a terror weapon like the dreadnoughts, the production of the Pretaul Mark II was stopped. And as a result of the Empire's focus, the Mark II's along with any other Batacruz's designs were kept primarily in the core to defend key areas and would occasionally be sent out to the fringes of Imperial Territory on what were considered to be dangerous missions and therefore needed some extra firepower. One example of this was the Pretaul Mark II Battle Crizzard, the Helmismun, kept by Admiral Mule's Geal, and I hope I'm saying his name right. The Helmismun was assigned to lead a secret armada on a mission to bring a creature known as a T-Zul to Coruscant. Now the T-Zul was essentially a living hyperspace communications device, and by being used as a comms tool by the Navy, it would give them a much better coordination against rebels. Now the Helmismun carried this creature inside its transportation ring. While on route, however, the secret armada was attacked and the T-Zul was killed by rebels. In order to penetrate the Helmismun's heavy arm and shields, rebels had to heavily modify their stolen typhoiders so they could hit the transport ring. They were, of course, successful in inflicting enough damage to the transport ring to kill the creature and managed to escape before the Helmismun's gun batteries could properly retaliate. Now as a little side note, I would also like to mention that the Prado Mark II was originally designed, alongside others, to be used as a super-starter destroyer executor in the Empire Strikes Back. As we know that it's not the design they ended up going with for the executor, but they held onto the design and later used it in some Marvel Star Wars comics as Admiral Geal's flagship, thus bringing the Prado Mark II into existence. But now I want to hear your thoughts. What do you think of the Prado Mark II Battle Cruiser? Do you think the Empire made the right choice to drop it or should they have made more? Let me know down below and until next time take care and may the Force be with you. you