Judicial/Old Republic paint scheme for the Legator Redux (https://fractalsponge.net/legator-class-star-dreadnought-redux/)
Judicial/Old Republic paint scheme for the Legator Redux (https://fractalsponge.net/legator-class-star-dreadnought-redux/)
I guess the Legator-class was a pre-Clone Wars vessel?
I believe the short comic where what looks like a Legator appears (Fractalsponge had seen the picture and built his Legator around it) is roughly TPM era, before the Clone Wars, yes – 32 BBY.
The comic is called Nomad, it was part of the Star Wars Tales 21 comic, and on Wookieepedia’s images page for the Nomad comic, the pic is labelled “Possible Mandator”.
I thought the Republic had no military to speak of before the Clone Wars started. People don’t really think the Judicial Forces were flying around serving warrants in Star Dreadnoughts the size of Manhattan, do they? I thought these color schemes were a “just for fun” sort of thing.
The ship that Fractal used as the basis for the Legator, was seen in a Star Wars Tales comic set around TPM, but in that comic what we could see of it was all-grey.
The Mandator itself, a ship of comparable size, was built as the centrepiece of the Kuat sector defence fleet. 6 more were built – 2 more for Kuat, 4 for other major sectors, 1 each per sector.
During the Clone Wars, 3 Mandator IIs were built, and 3 of the 7 regular Mandators were refitted to Mandator II standard.
I’m not sure in the “Fractalverse” how many Legators were built, or if any of the Legators were supposed to have been officially assigned to the Judicial Forces), but we know that in his version of Star Wars Legends, at least 1 Legator was built.
The 600m Dreadnaught-class was the “backbone of the fleet” pre-clone Wars, which in the context of the lack of a “true” galaxy-wide military may simply mean it was the largest ship in the Judicial Forces in common use – that every sector had Judicial Services fleet, and a Judicial Forces starbase serving that fleet, with the fleet roving the sector hunting pirates and smugglers, but returning to the starbase for repair and personnel replacement.
There’s still room though for the biggest and richest sectors having a Legator backing up the Judicials, being “active defence” against pirates, in the same way that 5 Sectors had Mandators.
This actually goes really hard. I love the inverted livery.
To much democracy I’m blind from the freedom emitted by this ship.
Absolutely bodacious.
now this, is epic
Woah, she looks ready for deployment alongside the Coruscant Guard home fleet.
In the EU there were some 50 Victory 1 class Ships that were plated with red armor because they were waiting armor in the imperial white.
In Despoilers of an Empire Part 2, it says they’re plated in “distinctive red havod alloy” instead of “traditional battleship-gray doonium” but doesn’t give a reason why.
Although poor physical specimens, the Teradocs excelled at naval theory and worked fanatically to outperform one another in the Corulag Academy. This one-upmanship paid off when they achieved the rank of captain almost simultaneously, part of a Victory-class Star Destroyer rapid-response taskforce under High Admiral Zsinj, assigned to quell threats in the Quelii Oversector. Part of the reason for their fast promotion was that the 100 VSDs of the “Crimson Command” were old and small, and hull-plated with distinctive red havod alloy instead of traditional, battleship-gray doonium. These puny “pink” antiques did not match the masculine ideal of most young Imperial officers; in their sibling rivalry, however, Treuten and Kosh didn’t care—until, that is, Treuten was promoted to high admiral over his younger brother and took command of the fleet.
Another source (Star Wars Adventure Journal 10) does give a reason – there was a shortage of doonium, so Admiral Kendel had some havod processed and made into hull plating instead, at least to solve the shortage problem in this particular situation.
As for paints (as opposed to plating),
in the novel I, Jedi a point is made of how the only paint available in large quantities at reasonable prices is Star Destroyer White (which greatly annoyed Booster Terrik, the owner of a captured ISD, who’d wanted to paint it all red),
by the end of the novel Vision of the Future the New Republic has agreed to repaint the ship, not in white, (in return for Terrik having lent it to them for a mission),
in the comic book Union the bow is now red (the rest of the ship is still white),
and by the start of the novel Survivor’s Quest some 3 years later, the whole ship is red (Booster Terrik’s friendly rival Talon Karrde had sold the paint to the New Republic in sufficient quantities, cheaply enough, for this to be possible).
That low aft angle is just sexy
Looks very good as a “TPM era/Stark Hyperspace War Era” ship.
If still serving in the Clone Wars era though, I could see it being grey with some red, rather than red with some grey – that would fit better alongside Clone Wars livery ships.
This livery is a pre-Clone Wars one, not a CW-era design. During the CW it would be reasonable to assume that they had grey hulls with red stripes and patterns instead.
Yup, livery works great for TPM era and earlier. The unarmed Consular-class ship in TPM was basically all red.
Now I’m just imagining what a Nute Gunray’s reaction would have been had this girl showed up instead at the beginning of A Phantom Menace. XD
Splendid