Just to let you know how hardcore it was, it cast a shadow on the regular Star Destroyers, which you thought were big from the last movie. The Executor had a big entrance in Empire, too. Was the name “Executor” a weird Imperial joke about how they were creating a lot of last wills and testaments? Either way, most fans refer to this arrow-head-shaped ship as a “Super Star Destroyer,” and the regular ones as just Star Destroyers. A supernova is a stellar explosion that briefly outshines an entire galaxy, radiating as much energy as the Sun is expected to emit over its entire life span. A nova is a cataclysmic nuclear explosion on a white dwarf, which causes a sudden brightening of the star.

Weirdly enough, this ship is not called the Executioner. In general a nova (plural novae or novas) is an exploding star. In The Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader rolled in on a Super Star Destroyer called the Executor. Nothing on the list is too surprising, though there is an entry for BB-8 hanging out on a “Mega Star Destroyer.” It’s not clear if this is the official designation of a ship, but if it is, there’s a slight precedent. The photo was posted by Star Wars collectors Twitter account Yakface. On Tuesday, Star Wars News Net shared a photo of a partial checklist of new Star Wars toys scheduled to hit stores on September 1, 2017. Dimensions With a length of 1,600 meters, the wedge-shaped Imperial I-class Star Destroyer was 445 meters longer than its immediate predecessor, the Venator-class Star Destroyer, which had been developed for the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. Supreme Leader Snoke might command the First Order from a starship so big that the only word to describe it is “mega.” A new toy list for Force Friday has revealed that a new ship in Star Wars: The Last Jedi is called a “Mega Star Destroyer.” The Imperial II-class Star Destroyer was a derivative of the Imperial I-class.

List of star destroyer names