Due to the pivotal Battle of Yavin, that saw the Alliance to Restore the Republic destroy the Empire's Death Star superweapon, Vader and the flotilla were tasked with finding the Rebels' base.
The ship replaced the Devastator as Vader's flagship, and many of the stormtroopers who served aboard the ship were selected due to their excellent performance in the Imperial Academy. The Executor became the command ship of the Death Squadron, the fleet of capital ships assigned to Vader, and also continued to be commanded by Ozzel, whom Vader began to become increasingly annoyed at.
Vader looked out at space, and used the Force to briefly connect with his son, Luke Skywalker. Ozzel looked at the now-dead Imperial officer, and then told Vader the ship would be ready. When Ozzel began to protest this, Vader threatened him by saying he sounded like Tagge. Ozzel replied it would be about a month before the ship would be launched due to damages from Cylo's takeover, but Vader gave him two weeks. Vader quickly Force choked Tagge to death, and then asked Admiral Kendal Ozzel when the ship would be ready. Tagge tried to reason with Vader, who now possessed more authority than him, but Vader did not listen. As a reward, Emperor Palpatine gave Vader the Executor and its fleet. When the rogue Imperial, Doctor Cylo, attempted to take over the starship, he was stopped by Darth Vader. By the aftermath of the War on Shu-Torun, the Super Star Destroyer was entering the final stages of its construction at the orbital shipyards of Kuat. The Executor will be yours." ―Darth Sidious, to Darth Vader īuilt by Kuat Drive Yards, the Executor was intended to take the place of the Annihilator as Grand General Cassio Tagge's flagship and the greatest starship in the entire Imperial fleet. However, by 4 ABY, the arrangement of the consoles had been altered to match that of smaller Destroyers. One notable difference was that, around 3 ABY, the pit consoles were aligned parallel to the walkway, instead of perpendicular. Bridge Īs in the Imperial I- and Imperial II-classes, the bridge of the Executor featured two elongated pits set below floor level, and a walkway where the superior officers stood. The aft end of the Executor was marked by a trapezoid command tower crowned by two geodesic communication and deflection domes at the bottom end of the hull were thirteen thrusters responsible for moving the vessel. The center of her arrowhead-shaped hull was covered by a city-like superstructure, while the underside hosted most of the engineering systems. One of the largest and most powerful Imperial vessels ever created, the Executor was 19,000 meters long, eclipsing its escorting Imperial-class Star Destroyers, and boasted more than 5,000 turbolasers and ion cannons.
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