Dread Tyrant

The **Dread Tyrant** was a Harrower-class dreadnought and the original flagship of Darth Arctis. In its final years of service, it was fitted with a devastating lightspeed cannon, making it a frightful sight to any other ship that dared to engage it.

The *Dread Tyrant* served Arctis throughout the entirety of the Great War and period of cold war that followed. It continued well into the years of the second galactic war, but its service to the Sith Lord came to an end when it was rerouted to Korriban during the Eternal Empire's raid on the planet.

Along with several other Imperial warships, the *Dread Tyrant* was destroyed by the overwhelming power of the Eternal Fleet.

## Description

### Design

A standard model Harrower, the *Dread Tyrant* measured 800 meters in length.

### Armament

The *Dread Tyrant* was equipped with quad laser cannons, turbolaser batteries, ion cannons, proton torpedo bays, and concussion missile launchers. It was later retrofitted with a lightspeed cannon, similar in design to the Gauntlet superweapon.

### Facilities and accomodations

The *Dread Tyrant* was staffed by a crew of 2,400 and could carry a maximum of 7,300 passengers. Its maximum cargo capacity was approximately 18,000 metric tons.

Two of the vessel's upper decks were stripped and refurbished during the Cold War.

## History

### Commissioned

The *Dread Tyrant* was assigned to Darth Arctis sometime before the start of the Great War. Its first commanding officer was Admiral Sark.

### Great War

#### Reclamation of Korriban

It was among the initial group of dreadnoughts that exited hyperspace into the Korriban system and attacked the space station the Republic had placed in orbit of the Sith holy world.

#### Battle of Hoth

The *Dread Tyrant* was also present for the Battle of Hoth, one of many Imperial ships that comprised a sizable armada that ambushed the Republic "super dreadnought", the *Star of Coruscant*, acting on intelligence provided by the Chiss Ascendancy. Once the battle culminated in the Hoth system, the *Star of Coruscant* was finally disabled and plummeted onto Hoth's icy surface. Arctis had been heavily involved in the campaign to eliminate the Republic Navy's prized warship since its conception; the final battle over Hoth marked the first time the Sith Lord directed his flagship since the reclamation of Korriban. The *Dread Tyrant* was one of the very few ships to survive the battle without sustaining any critical damage.

### Cold War

#### A New Commander

At some point after the Treaty of Coruscant was signed, Arctis arranged for Admiral Sark to be promoted to Moff. On Sark's recommendation, the Sith Lord took on a young captain by the name of Dietrich Vogel to succeed him as the *Dread Tyrant*'s commanding officer.

#### Renovations

With a shaky peace between the Empire and Republic in place, the *Dread Tyrant* spent the majority of the cold war within the Imperial border. It was during those years that Arctis took the opportunity to make a number of alterations to his flagship's design. The first was to strip and renovate two of its upper decks; one was made into a massive meditation chamber for Arctis and his apprentices, while the second was decorated quite luxuriously and branded the "executive wing." Some years after, the ship was also outfitted with proton torpedo launchers, on the advice of Admiral Vogel.

The most significant of these modifications, however, came mere weeks before the Treaty of Coruscant was dissolved. High Command had commissioned the creation of a second prototype of the lightspeed cannon that had been designed by Colonel Rebus of Imperial Intelligence. The duplicate cannon's existence was kept secret from even the colonel himself; it was mounted onto the *Dread Tyrant* by the order of Darth Vengean.

### Galactic War

#### Reinforcing the First Defense Fleet

At the request of Darth Marr, the *Dread Tyrant* was rerouted to Dromund Kaas to aid the First Defense Fleet in protecting the capital from a number of Republic warships that had entered the system.

Once the *Dread Tyrant* arrived in system, Arctis took to the bridge to personally command his flagship. As the Republic vessels were considerably outnumbered by the First Defense Fleet alone, he correctly assumed they able to hold out against them only due to the leadership of Jedi Master Satele Shan.