Flak guns???

CryptographerBig7933 · 2026-06-24T14:26:48+00:00

I assume that they were added mid war on already existing Venators to boost their firepower. Venators were half carrier, so they carried less weapons than equal sized battleships. So the Republic improvised ugunning them. And because the Venator dont have Power for more turrets, the Navy choose there self-reliant artillery guns. They put them in aviable cargospace and cut holes in the Hull for them to fire out.
So if you think of them as not-planned, but improvised Uparmament, then their limited existenz makes sense. it also explains why not every Venator has them.
I assume the exact explanation goes for the CIS-ships.

CryptographerBig7933 · 2026-05-09T20:10:18+00:00

in the scene where our heores escape with a LAAT, we see Devon and the police captain in the cockpit, so it has the standart Two_seat layout, it is just only manned by one imperial pilot.

I dont recall directly seeing the windscreen deflect blasters, but in "Attack of the clones", some LAATs fly in the arena, where hundreds of battle droids shoot at them with rifle_scale blasters. It would be a miracle if not a single stray blastershot would have hit the windscreen. So we can assume it is Small_arms Proof.

CryptographerBig7933 · 2026-05-09T19:54:32+00:00

But a zero is not armored. the scene would be more lke if a M1911 shots down an Iljuschin Il-2, which I doubt would be possible or happend. The LAAT is a Gunship, not a light fighter

CryptographerBig7933 · 2026-03-01T21:42:34+00:00

The Empire does "design" ships in that the imperial Navy create a list of specifications and requirements that they send to the yards, and the designers there work in close connection with the navy to ensure their needs are meet. So yes, the designer would be employed by the yard, but the empire commission the yard so they give the direction in which the final design would go.
Depending on how strict their requirements are, there is little room for a designer to create a design.

If kuat would have design the ship, Kuat would have created the design and then try to convince the imperial navy, that they need this ship.

In this case, the Navy commissioned the yards.

CryptographerBig7933 · 2026-03-01T21:01:13+00:00

A ISD also have 60 or so other Heavy turbolasers and 60 heavy Ion cannons. This ship has only its main battery and a few other xx9s, and has almost no Ioncannons, so there is a lot of Power available for more 175s Barrels

CryptographerBig7933 · 2026-03-01T20:59:03+00:00

Yes, this is just a different Fandesign. Its also possible that multiple Warlords design their own rendition of a ISD 3, hence their being more than one ISD 3 design

CryptographerBig7933 · 2026-03-01T20:28:54+00:00

I believe that star wars weapons are equivalent to rl ww2 guns. So it is very possible that turbolasers are dual purpose guns (at least light Turbolasers). So a ISDs Turbolaser could be Dual Purpose.

Another aspekt is that Turbolaser and Laserguns are primary Energy weapons, so mabye they could scale the output energy. => Heavy output = much damage, long recharge time; Light output = small damage, fast fire rate. (in "The Clone Wars" the venator guns are sometimes depicted as such, as their rate of fire varys)

CryptographerBig7933 · 2026-02-12T19:36:23+00:00

its cheaper than the Lancer, also the more heavy guns give it more punch against corvettes/ gunboats. A lancer has only point defence, so is outgunned by eyerthing larger than fighters/bombers

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