The battleship was fitted with the aforementioned gigantic ion cannons which were charged with plasma rotors and fired a focused and directed ionic pulse at Republic capital ships, completely neutralizing their power systems. ' Looks like our intelligence was wrong-that ship's fully armed!' ― Anakin Skywalker ĭespite its status as the Confederacy's most powerful battleship design, eclipsing pre-war models like the Lucrehulk-class, the model was classified as a heavy cruiser and was one of the largest designs that came from the Confederate shipyards. The class was based around its ion pulse cannons, a weapons-system not used onboard any other warship class, due to its unique power-generation needs. The Confederate Navy's most powerful battleship class, it had some design-similarities to both the Providence-class carrier/destroyer and the Recusant-class light destroyer, but was almost as large as five Venator-class Star Destroyers and totalled 4,845 meters in length. The Malevolence 's stern, revealing its engine banks.
