Later on, during the blockade of Ibaar, at least three of them worked alongside a pair of Gozanti-class cruisers under the command of Imperial Security Bureau Agent Alexsandr Kallus to preventing Phoenix Squadron from delivering relief supplies to the starving Ibaarans. Several command cruisers also responded to attack by Phoenix Cell on an Imperial convoy. It was successfully infiltrated by a team of Lothal-based rebels known as the Spectres to discover the location of Kanan Jarrus, a Jedi who survived the destruction of the Jedi Order at the end of the Clone Wars. Ī Sentinel-class shuttle docking with an Arquitens-class command cruiserĪbout four years before the Battle of Yavin, after Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin ordered the destruction of the planet Lothal's Imperial Communications Center, the local Imperial forces used an Arquitens-class command cruiser known as the Tellstar to capture and relay information from surface courier droids brought aboard. Though this generation of refits would eventually be retired due to age, they would be replaced by production-line command cruiser variants that served well into the Imperial Era. The result, the Arquitens-class command cruiser, featured radically improved speed, agility, combat ability, power output, and other systems, in line with the navy's order of battle. Several years prior to 4 BBY, the Imperial Navy recalled all of the Arquitens-class light cruisers still in service to Kuat Drive Yards, where they would be refitted as part of a service life extension program. The cruiser's small craft launch and recovery systems, positioned between the two spars, could dock either a Sentinel-class landing craft, two TIE/ln space superiority starfighters, TIE/sa bombers, TIE/d "Defender" Multi-Role Starfighters, or three TIE/IN interceptors. The Arquitens-class was protected by deflector shields and equipped with a class 2 hyperdrive with a class 12 backup. It additionally had a dorsal missile launcher, and its four concussion missile launchers. However, an Arquitens-class could also be armed with three dorsal quad laser battery turrets, two ventral turrets, six twin laser cannon turrets– with two mounted near the engines at the dorsal and ventral hull, and the other four placed above the port and starboard docking tubes on the dorsal and ventral sides. The Arquitens-class was armed with four turbolaser batteries, eight quad laser batteries mounted on four turrets–two dorsal and two ventral, four forward-mounted concussion missile launchers on the port and starboard and a tractor beam projector. The vessels also featured a detention block. The Republic variant's side-mounted turbolaser batteries were removed and replaced with eight escape pods, and lateral entry ways near the bow allowed the deployment of Imperial Jumptroopers. Structural changes included an enclosed horizontal housing on the three powerful main engines, as well as the shape of its bridge tower. Measuring 230 meters in length, the command cruiser had several subtle updates in its design despite appearing to be a simple repaint of its predecessor in reality they shared few characteristics besides the basic hull shape-kite-shaped hulls with two forward spars-and the class name. Ī heavily armed Arquitens-class command cruiser The multipurpose light cruiser design served in a variety on roles, protecting remote Imperial assets, performing detached patrol duties in the Outer Rim Territories, acting as support to larger battle groups, serving as an armed transport, and as a communications ship. The Arquitens-class command cruiser was manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards for the Imperial Navy, initially entering service as a reworking of the Arquitens-class light cruiser which had served with the Republic Navy.
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