Inquisitor-class Battlecruiser

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Name: Inquisitor-class Battlecruiser

Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards

Dimensions: 7,100 x 2,400 x 750 meters

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Thoughts on a name change

I'm deliberating whether or not to re-adopt the ship's former name "Purifier" - in which case this ship would replace the one equally named Dominance-class Battlecruiser within BPC lore, making both of them unique ships. In that case I may re-use the name "Inquisitor" to rename the priorly named Sovereign-class to avoid confusion with the equally named imperial star dreadnought.

Dev notes & Origins

The Inquisitor is by far the oldest Star Destroyer-ish starship designs I've ever come up with, in fact one of my earliest starship designs in general. Ironically this was actually the very first design for what would later become the SBC Warrior - before I moved away from Star Wars-themed designs and created my own style.

For this new model I combined two old designs - the upper city's design is based on that early Warrior concept, which was kinda reminiscent of a classic Executor SSD added with two big guns on either side. For the lower side I implemented an even older design for a ship going by the name of Purifier.

Originally this ship would be about 20km long, but for the sake of reason I decided to drastically scale it down, so now it's about 7-8 km in length, somewhere inbetween the Warhammer and the Dominance / Sovereign.

The Inquisitor used to feature six downward-facing thrusters (or plasma jets ...), somewhat reminiscent to the dreadded World Devastators from the Dark Empire storyline - only far bigger. I eventually removed those as they wouldn't play a major role in XWA and such a weapon would also contradict the ESS' philosophy.