Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 23:11:52 -0500
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The Star Destroyer Raider (from the M&LGH storyline)

The very definition of spit-and-duct-tape repair, Admiral Daala's new flagship
is probably one of the least spaceworthy ships ever flown by the Empire.
Salvaged from the mess left over when the Emperor destroyed himself, the ship
was half-scuttled. With help from the residents of Byss, one of the Empire's
last loyal worlds, she managed to get the ship working. 

The Raider regularly flies with half a crew complement, primarily because a good
chunk of the living quarters on the ship were cut off from the ship or destroyed
outright. It carries one wing of TIE fighters, a ragtag assemblage of
Interceptors and TIE/ln fighters with reasonably good shields. It also carries
almost 4,000 stormtroopers (a quarter of its crew). 

The Raider's only real asset is its speed. The hyperdrive is faster than the
average star destroyer (x1 multiplier), though the hyperdrive has been known to
play fast and loose with the space-time continuum, in one case completely
inverting the relativity time-stretch and making a 2-week realtime jump stretch
to nearly 4 ship time. Daala has commissioned people to look into the problem,
though there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to be done with a hyperdrive array
of that size.

The Raider is rather poorly armed, with no real power for orbital bombardment.
This has been something of a sticking point between Daala and Pellaeon; the
planets they've captured don't know that, but there would be big problems if the
word got around.