SSD Aggressor question

Do we know what happened to it beyond the fact that it was recalled to defend the Corellian shipyards? Is there any concrete source which states that it served Isard, Thrawn or Daala? Was it ever destroyed?

 

I don't recall it being mentioned in the NJO anywhere, so I guess we can assume it's "out of action".

 

Doesnt it get destroyed at the end of the ballance of power add-on for the X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter game?

I might be worng though (it has been a long time since I last played it)and I am not sure how much relevance can be placed on the games either.

Genghis

 

I believe that the SSD at the end of BoP is the Vengeance, not the Aggressor. The Aggressor is mentioned in the X-wing novels, but it doesn't state whether the mentioned vessel is the SSD or another ship with the same name.

 

In star wars insider # 66, the fate of the SSD Aggressor was told....

Grand Admiral Grunger, after loseing most of his fleet ramed Grand Admiral Pitta's torpedo sphere with the SSD Aggressor. Both ships was destroyed as a result, with both Grand Admirals.

 

Do they say *when* that happened?

 

About a year after the destruction of the second Death Star, going from other references in the entries.

 

I don't know where it was destroyed or how, but I know it's gone by the time of the NJO because they call the Lusankya the only SSD they have. They being the NR

What's the name of the SSD the Remnant has at the time of the NJO? IIRC they mention one in Destiny's Way

 

The NR might only have one SSD now, but its the guardian, not the Lucy.

 

The SSD mentioned in Destiny's Way did not have a name, and if I recall correctly, Walter Jon created it to further demonstate the Imperial power better. It is possible that it is perhaps the Intimidator from the Black Fleet Crisis that was repaired and placed back on the Imperial line.

As for the Lusyanka being the only SSD that the Republic had is not true. The defense fleet for Mon Calamiri has the SSD Guardian. The Lusyanka is perhaps the only SSD that the Republic had avaible to them in Rebel Stand/Dream, and that's because Mon Calamari was cut off if I recall right.

 

About a year after the destruction of the second Death Star, going from other references in the entries.

That doesn't make any sense. If the Aggressor gets destroyed 1 year post-Endor, how can it be in active service and moving about during the X-wing novels, which are like... 3.5 years after Endor? (according to the Del Rey timeline)

As for the SSD in Destiny's Way, I always thought that was the Guardian.

 

There were 2 in Destiny's Way -- the Guardian with the NR and an unnamed SSD at Bastion

 

Oh yeah, I remember now. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

Yeah, I recall the Essential Chronology talking about the New Republic stumbling across the wreckage and deeming it unsalvageable.

 

That doesn't make any sense. If the Aggressor gets destroyed 1 year post-Endor, how can it be in active service and moving about during the X-wing novels, which are like... 3.5 years after Endor?

Probably a different ship. There's been multiples of other ships before. There's only so many intimidating names you can call a Star Destroyer before you have to start recycling ones from destroyed Destroyers.

Thanks for the answers, by the way.

 

I had one idea to explain the Imperial SSD in DW, it might have been the remnants of some SSD, ie a "hulk" with inoperational engines sited around Bastion as a makeshift (but very nasty) orbital defense platform. If so it was probably the first thing to go when Bastion was hit by the Vong in Remnant.

 

I favor the most obvious explanation for the appearance of a new unnamed SSD in DW.

It's a new SSD.

 

Probably a different ship. There's been multiples of other ships before. There's only so many intimidating names you can call a Star Destroyer before you have to start recycling ones from destroyed Destroyers.

No offense, but I don't really buy that. It seems like too much of a cop-out for my tastes.

I favor the most obvious explanation for the appearance of a new unnamed SSD in DW.

It's a new SSD.

"New" in what respect? Do you mean "new to the readers", in that we've never seen it before, or "new to the Empire", that they'd just built it?

 

I'm betting he means new to the Empire

Which I would say is the most logical explanation

 

Syntax, what I'm going from isn't really concrete. There is just a single time reference that Grunger had most of the Outer Rim areas answering to him within a year, and that it was only after Teshik's execution did he head into the Corellian sector where he met his demise.

Teshik's entry says that soon after the destruction of the second Death Star, he was executed for his crimes against the galaxy.

Overall though, it is possible that the Aggressor was around up until the X-Wing comics.

 

No one has accounted for the SSD Whelm.

 

No offense, but I don't really buy that. It seems like too much of a cop-out for my tastes.

As I recall, the Aggressor in the X-wing books was never given a class; fans just assumed it was the SSD. So it's not really that much of a cop-out. I mean, there was a VSD, ISD, and SSD Vengeance. There was even a Vengeance of its own class.

 

I'm betting he means new to the Empire

Well, that begs two questions, though:

1. Why didn't they use it earlier?

2. How'd they get the resources to build it, while the NR was wiping the floor with them for decades on end?

No one has accounted for the SSD Whelm

I have never heard of that ship - what is it from?

As I recall, the Aggressor in the X-wing books was never given a class; fans just assumed it was the SSD.

I seem to recall it being called a SSD in at least one official source. The SW Essential Chronology might have done it, I'm not sure.

 

I have never heard of that ship - what is it from?

Coruscant and the Core Worlds sourcebook.