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Entry: 088
Subject:Ion Cannons
Status: Cannon
Capsule:



Ion Cannons are simply various weapons that fire a beam or blast of charged ions at another target.

The purpose: disable. High concentrations of ions can disable shields and entire ships.

The size of the ion cannon was relevant to the power of it's firings. Typically, the ion cannons on a B-Wing, Y-Wing, or on most capital ships are strong enough to disable most starfighters in one hit.

Compartively, the v-150 Planet Defender, the model of ion cannon used at Echo Base on Hoth, was powerful enough to disable vessels as large as an Imperial Star Destroyer in a hit or two.

Entry: 090
Subject: E-11 Blaster Rifle
Status: Canon
Capsule:



Aside from top-notch training, a reputation for no-nonsense, and the best personal armor available to infatry, the Stormtroopers had one more reaosn why they were feared: the E-11.

This blaster, designed by BlasTech Industries, and manufactured under license by countless manufacteurers. It was originally based off of the commando pistol and DC-15 Blaster Rifle used by the Clonetroopers.

The blaster itself was only about half a meter long, weighing about 5 pounds. It featured a scope with a 2x reticle. It also came with a powercell that allowed for 100 shots per clip, whereas the actual plasmacell ammunition (the plasma celd held tibanna gas, which was charge by the powercell to form the blaster laser) held 500 shots. Depending on the rate of fire, overheating, and setting of the blaster, the powercell could end up providing far less or more than 100 shots.

It was eventually obsoleted in 14 ABY by the E-15 Blaster Rifle.

It also came with two settings: stun and kill.

Entry: 092
Subject: DH-17 Blaster Pistol
Status: Canon
Capsule:



A mere 550 credits, and nearly twice as cheap as the larger E-11, the DH-17 was the sidearm of choice in the galaxy. It was given standard issue to all Imperial, Rebellion, and eventually New Republic forces. Thus, it was the most common blaster pistol in the galaxy during the Galactic Civil War.

Like the E-11, this was a BlasTech design, and even looked similar to the larger E-11 Blaster Rifle.

The pistol was relatively simple. Optimum firing range was 30 meters, though with it's scope it could fire as far as 120m. It had a capacity of 500 shots, and it's clip could be replaced by a skilled shoulder in as little as five seconds.

Like most blaster weapons, owning one of these was prohibited for citizens. It was readily found on the Black Market, however.

Entry: 094
Subject: DH-17 Blaster Rifle
Status: Canon
Capsule:



Yet another BlasTech weapon, modeled similar to the DH-17 Pistol, this weapon served as the primary rifle of choice for the Rahm Kota Militia and the Rebel Alliance.

Although it carried a similar ammunition amount compared to the DLT-19 and E-11, this weapon featured a unique charged fire mode, allowing it to power up its shots for extra potency. It also featured a full automatic mode, making the weapon double as a repeater blaster.

Entry: 096
Subject: Imperial Security Bureau
Status: Canon
Capsule:



The Imperial Security Bureau was a branch of COMPNOR, serving as the eyes and ears of the Galactic Empire. It's purpose: Internal security. That's right, if the Emperor and his allies feared anyone, it wasn't any rebel group, but traitorous commanders and Moffs who had the resources to oppose the Emperor.

ISB was in charge of, then, making sure that various members of the Empire did their job, and were loyal. On the surface, each and every Star Destroyer or Imperial base had at least one or two ISB Agents, acting as both Intelligence agents for Rebel threats, but also monitoring internal affairs. Also, the ISB usually found ways to infilitrate their members into key officer positions, as well as the security forces and Stormtrooper Corps.

ISB was divided into a two tier office. The top tier was the ISB Central Office, operating out of Azure Hammer Command. Below were the various Sector Offices of each Sector and Oversector. It was the job of Commission of Operations to pass on jobs handled by the Central Office to the Sector Offices, depending on the scale of each operation.

Following is a list of divisions within ISB:

- Surveillance
- Investigations
- Internal Affairs
- Interrogation
- Re-education
- Enforcement
- ISB Stormtroopers

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Surveillance- Surveillance was the largest branch of ISB, containing just over 33% of all ISB operatives. Their job was simple: monitoring the galaxy for various threats, both internal and external, and then reporting them to the local or central Office. Also, Surveillance acted as a propaganda force, spreading rumors against enemy forces and promoting Imperial doctrine. A good portion of this branch were recruited from the COMPNOR's Adult Youth program, and thus many were poorly trained, albeit zealous.

Investigations- Unlike Surveillance, Investigations had much better training. They essentially took the intel that Surveillance gathered, and then acted upon it. Agents of this branch were directly tied to the Imperial Military, usually operating on a Star Destroyer, and thus could react swiftly if a Rebel threat was detected.

Internal Affairs- The police force within the police force. Internal Affairs policed the various branches of ISB and COMPNOR, taking care of threats within the Imperial Military as well. If the Captain of a Star Destroyer was displaying sentiments with enemy forces, then Internal Affairs made every point of seeing that this person was silenced. Internal Affairs operatives were also often assigned to work undercover within the military; they could be an engineer, pilot, communications officer, janitor. There wasn't a singal position they weren't monitoring. This was limited, however, as there were seldom more than two agents aboard a Star Destroyer.

Interrogation- Remember that droid that needled Princess Leia on the Death Star? Guess who was controlling the droid: an Interrogation agent. Simply, if Investigations found that their suspect was witholding vital information, it was this branch's duty to sit down with that suspect and extract the information by any means necessary. If the interrogation was deemed a failure, they were then passed on to the Inquisitorious.

Re-education- When ISB detects a traitor within COMPNOR, they capture them and send them to re-education. They get demoted, and brainwashed into being logyal Imperials again.

Enforcement- The police for the police within the police. Obviously the ISB, like the rest of the Empire, is borderline paranoid. The whole purpose of this branch is to protect ISB Agents from unnecessary harrassment by Internal Affairs. For example, an Agent's job might be to pretend being a rebel, to draw out other rebels. Internal Affairs finds him and tries to capture or eliminate him; it is Enforcement's job to prevent this.

ISB Stormtroopers- Essentially, these were little more than a group of ISB Agents acting as moles within the Stormtrooper Corps. They reported any unusual activity, such as disobeying orders, etc.

Entry: 098
Subject: Imperial Intelligence
Status: Canon
Capsule:

While the Imperial Security Bureau was a branch of COMPNOR and focused on internal security problems, Imperial Intelligence was the organization responsible for overall Intelligence operations in the galaxy.

The organization was first founded in 19 BBY, right after the New Order was declared. The four existing Intelligence organizations - the Senate Bureau of Intelligence, Interstellar Consortium on Technology, Republican Security Organization, and Special Acquisitions Branch of the Library of the Republic - decided to centralize into a larger, stronger group than either one was by itself. Choosing SBI Director Armand Isard as their leader, the new Imperial Intelligence quickly became one of the largest, most powerful organizations within the New Empire. Their rise to power was so fast, in fact, COMPNOR created the Imperial Security Bureau as a direct rival to Imperial Intelligence.

Imperial Intelligence was divided into 10 branches:

- Ubiqtorate
- Adjustments
- Internal Organization Bureau
- Analysis Bureau
- Crisis Branch
- Bureau of Operations
- Inquisitorius
- Special Intelligence
- Sector Plexus
- System Cell

Ubiqtorate- The High Command of ImpIntel, led by the Director of Intelligence Armand Isard. They formulated strategy and unified the rest of the bureaus into one unit.

Adjustments- The only bureau directly controlled by the Ubiqtorate, Adjustments was called in when a situation was beyond the reach of the rest of the organization, but not completely hopeless.

Internal Organizations Bureau- The police of ImpIntel, Internal Organizations protected Imperial Intelligence from internal and external threats, particularly threats against Imperial Intelligence and its members as a whole.

Analysis Bureau- AB's job was to collect data, sift for threats, and then transmitting their findings to the Ubiqroate so that they can be addressed.

Crisis Branch- The Crisis Branch was used to weed out corruption and handle sudden, dangerous situations. It was only opened in times of great conflict. The three most recent activations of this branch were in 22 BBY at the start of the Clone Wars, in 19 BBY at the start of the New Order, and in 2 BBY at the start of the Galactic Civil War.

Bureau of Operations- The Bureau was responsible for handling jobs that individual system cells could not. Essentially, they were the military arm of ImpIntel.

Inquisitorius- Probably the most feared single organization in the entire Galactic Empire, the Inquisitorius is a sect of the best of the Dark Side Elite, who specialize in Intel gathering, interrogation, and torture. They had a 100% success rate of breaking suspects into submission, including Jedi.

Special Intelligence- Special Intelligence was responsible with handling jobs too 'unsavory' for the System Cell, but not quite warranting Adjustments.

Sector Plexus- The Plexus stored and recorded all gathered information. It was also responsible with safely transferring information between branches of ImpIntel or between planets and ships.

System Cell- A system cell is the individual cell of ImpIntel personnel operating on a mission or system. Also called Agents.

Imperial Intelligence used ranks similar to the Imperial Army. However, most members below the rank of Major were simply referred to as Agents.

Imperial Intelligence's head quarters is based within the Imperial Palace. They also maintain the Lusankya, a buried Star Dreadnaught below the surface of Coruscant.

Entry: 100
Subject: Tector-class Star Destroyer
Status: Canon
Capsule:

The Tector-class premiered near the end of the Clone Wars, serving right along side the Imperator-class (Imperial-class). While the Imperial-class had an outstanding weapons payout and a hangar big enough for a pre-fabricated base and wing of TIE Fighters, the Tector-class had no hangar. At all.

Essentially, what you're looking at is a dedicated ship-to-ship combat vessel. No hangar meant no need for a starfighter command. Likewise, this also meant that the lack of TIE Fighters meant that you had less stuff to protect yourself with.

While there are no official lists as to the amount of weapons it had, because of it's role, the Tector likely utilized a great number of Heavy and Quad Turbolasers to combat enemy destroyer-sized vessels.

Otherwise, beside the lack of hangar, the only other visible difference (that was known, anyway) was that the reactor bulb located beneath the ship on Imperial-class vessels was covered by armor, and thus better protected on the Tector-class.

Downsides? Though it was a dedicated ship-to-ship vessel, the ship was considerably slower than any other Destroyer.

Eventually, both the Imperial-class and Tector-class were replaced by the Imperial-class II. At least one of these vessels was part of Death Squadron during the Battle of Endor.

Entry: 102
Subject: Acclamator II-class Assault Ship
Status: Canon
Capsule:



While the Acclamator-class debuted in 22 BBY as a troop transport, the need quickly arrived for a ship of similar size that focused more on defeating other ships, instead of ferrying armies. The Acclamator II is that new ship.

Length is about 752m, less than a third the size of an Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

While the Acclamator had the hangar space for 16,000 clone troopers, 155 V-19 Torrent Fighters, and hundreds of vehicles, the Acclamator-II had 80% less space, a mere 2 years worth of consumables, 10,000 tons of cargo, 3200 clone troopers, and about 100 vehicles.

On the flipside, the Acclamator II had a crew of 20,414, more than than 20 times the crew of the original ship.

Let's compare the weapons on both ships.

Acclamator I:

4 Proton Torpedo Tubes
24 Point-Defense Laser Cannons
12 Quad Turbolaser Cannons

Acclamator II:

4 Turbolaser Batteries
2 Heavy Proton Torpedo Launchers

While the Acc I might seem like the heavier armed ship, it's weaponry was fairly low rated, barely able to contend with enemy frigates it's own size. However, the Heavy Proton Torpedos of the Acc II have enough bunch ot breach even the heavy planetary shields of planets like Coruscant, making it more than capable of going through the shields of starships.

Eventually, both ships were phased out of duty. The Acclamator I was supplanted by the Venator, which could carry far more troops and fightercraft, while the Acclamator II was supplanted by the Victory-class Star Destroyer. By 19 BBY, existing Acclamators were relegated to defense of backwater planets in nonpriority areas.