Editing Star Destroyer (section)

== Mega Star Destroyer ==
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| first_major       = [[Star Wars: The Last Jedi]] (2017)
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| maker             = Kuat-Entralla Engineering<ref name=USWNE341>Barr, et al. (2019), p. 340-341</ref><ref name=SWCVNE227>Dougherty, et al. (2020), p. 222-227</ref>
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*8 ''Resurgent''-class Star Destroyers<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>
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*Heavy turbolasers<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>
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*Tractor beam projectors<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>
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*Deflector shield generators<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>
*Armor Plating<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>
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*Hyperdrive<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>
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*2,225,000 personnel<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>
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The ''Mega''-class Star Dreadnought ''Supremacy'' made its first theatrical appearance in ''[[Star Wars: The Last Jedi]]'' (2017).  Described as the command ship for [[Supreme Leader Snoke]], it was stated to be {{convert|60|km|abbr=on}} wide, making it significantly larger than any previous [[Super Star Destroyer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-last-jedi-snoke-star-destroyer-revealed/|title=Last Jedi: Snoke's Mega Star Destroyer Revealed|last=Nolan|first=Liam|website=CBR.com|date=2 September 2017|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>

=== Concept and design ===
Director [[Rian Johnson]] came up for the idea of basing the ''Supremacy'' on a [[flying wing]], picking the final exterior look from concept art created by design supervisor Kevin Jenkins.  "It's a big flying city," said Jenkins.  "Vader's ''Executor'' is simply a headquarters, but Snoke doesn't have a planet, so he lives on the ship."<ref>{{cite book|last=Szostak|first=Phil|title=The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|date=2017|pages=78|isbn=9781419727054}}</ref>  The ''Supremacy'''s bridge was also designed by Jenkins, who wanted it to mirror the wideness of the ship itself.<ref>Szostak, Phil (2017), pp. 89</ref>

=== Depiction ===
Described as the only ''Mega''-class Star Destroyer in the galaxy,<ref name=Walker202>Walker (2018), p. 202</ref> the ''Supremacy'' served not only as the flagship but as the capital of the First Order.  Rather than choosing one of the settled planets claimed by the First Order, this decision for a mobile headquarters was said to represent the Order's dream of restoring the Empire and expanding upon it.  Built at a staggering cost within the Unknown Regions, the existence of "Snoke's [[boudoir]]" was only a rumor among Resistance personnel until it finally reveled itself.<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>

Thousands of heavy turbolasers, antiship missile batteries, heavy ion cannons and tractor beam projectors gives the ship firepower equivalent to an entire fleet. The vessel also possesses an industrial capacity that would rival most planets, with asteroid mining complexes, foundries, production lines, research labs and training centers. Six external and two internal stations allow ''Resurgent''-class Star Destroyers to dock with the ''Supremacy''.  A majority of the ship's 2,225,000 crew are adolescents still in training to become stormtroopers and officers.<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>

The ''Supremacy'' reveals itself in ''The Last Jedi'' at the head of the fleet pursuing the Resistance after their flight from [[D'Qar]], having used the immense processing power of its vast number of computer arrays to track them through hyperspace.  This pursuit continues in realspace, with the ''Supremacy'' destroying the majority of the Resistance fleet while the [[Raddus (MC85 Star Cruiser)|''Raddus'']] continues to survive thanks to its experimental deflector shields.  However, running low on fuel, the Resistance hatches a plan to secretly escape aboard cloaked U-55 Orbital Loadlifters to nearby [[Crait]].  The plan is foiled when the cloaked ships are revealed by [[DJ (Star Wars)|DJ]] ([[Benicio del Toro]]) and the ''Supremacy'' turns its cannons on the helpless shuttles.  Desperate, [[Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo]] ([[Laura Dern]]) turns the ''Raddus'' around and rams the ''Supremacy'' at lightspeed, splitting the vessel in two.<ref name=USWNE341/><ref name=SWCVNE227/>

=== Analysis ===
Martin Docherty of Space.com looked at the possible physics behind the scene in ''The Last Jedi'' where Vice Admiral Holdo destroys the ''Supremacy'' by ramming it at lightspeed with the ''Raddus''.  Using the estimate that the ''Raddus'' massed 8.88 billion kilograms and was traveling at 99.9% of the [[speed of light]], it would have a [[Lorentz factor]] of 22.366 and impact with a final [[kinetic energy]] of 17x10<sup>27</sup> [[joule]]s.  Such an impact would create shrapnel which, while moving slower than lightspeed, would still cause immense damage, as was seen in the movie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.space.com/star-wars-the-last-jedi-holdo-maneuver-physics|title=Would Star Wars: The Last Jedi's Holdo Maneuver actually work?|last=Docherty|first=Martin|website=Space.com|date=23 September 2021|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>

[[Rhett Allain]], an associate professor at [[Southeastern Louisiana University]], examined the turbolaser shots fired by the ''Supremacy'' in ''The Last Jedi'' and observed how these shots arced through space as opposed to flying straight as in previous movies.  Noting that these shots took 1.58 seconds to reach the ''Raddus'', he estimated they were traveling 100,000 [[meters per second]] with an apparent vertical acceleration of 2.4 x 10{{sup|4}} [[meters per second squared]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/story/somethings-off-with-the-turbolaser-shots-in-the-last-jedi/|title=Something's Off With the Turbolaser Shots in The Last Jedi|last=Allain|first=Rhett|website=Space.com|date=11 May 2018|access-date=12 May 2025}}</ref>

=== Cultural influence ===
Upon the first reveal of the ''Supremacy'', B. Alan Orange noted that, despite the ship's unique design, it still retained a familiar shape which immediately identified it as belonging to the First Order.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movieweb.com/snoke-star-destroyer-sith-ring-star-wars-last-jedi/|title=Snoke's Mega Star Destroyer & New Sith Weapon Revealed in Star Wars 8|last=Orange|first=B. Alan|website=MovieWeb|date=1 September 2017|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>  Corey Larson of Screen Rant believed that, regardless of the film's wider reputation, the introduction of the ''Supremacy'' and it's subsequent destruction during ''The Last Jedi'' represented one of the coolest additions to the franchise from the [[Star Wars sequel trilogy]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/star-wars-10-coolest-ships-ranked/|title=The 10 Coolest Ships In Star Wars, Ranked Worst To Best|last=Larson|first=Corey|website=Screen Rant|date=21 February 2024|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>  John Orquiola meanwhile felt the ship represented an ongoing superweapon problem with the franchise.  While crediting Rian with not introducing another Death Star-like weapon, it still showed that the First Order, like the Empire before it, was obsessed with equating size with power and creating "unbeatable" superweapons which are eventually destroyed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/star-wars-last-jedi-superweapon-death-star-supremacy/|title=Star Wars Still Has A Superweapon Problem|last=Orquiola|first=John|website=Screen Rant|date=18 December 2018|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>