Novel References

Shield of Lies

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16
Three ships were racing for search stations along the vagabond's last heading; Lightning ten light years out, Glorious twenty, and Marauder thirty. The improvised plan called for them to drop sensor buoys with hypercomm repeaters at those entry points and then begin making short jumps out to the limits of sensor range, hoping to catch a glimpse of their quarry.
The precision of the plan did not mask its weakness --- its slim chance of success depended on the vagabond's making a single short jump. If it followed a short jump with a second jump on another heading, where there were no eyes or sensors to track --- or if it carried the first jump out fifty, a hundred, five hundred light-years, beyond the borders of the New Republic and into the chaos of the Core --- ...

Indication of sensor and communications capabilities, scale of hyperspace jumps; hypercomm capabilities. Also indicates proximity of vagabond to Imperial hold-out territory in the Deep Core. Also hints that Deep Core region must be greater than five hundred light-years across.

28
... they heard a deep, rumbling groan from the ship, a sound that had no direction. Though the surroundings were alien, the sound was familiar --- the signature of a form of stress that aged large vessels' hulls and led to a spectacular form of self-destruction known as an exit breach. It was the exit growl, the characteristic sound caused by portions of the ship emerging from hyperspace nanoseconds before the rest as the jump field collapsed.

Explains exit growl associated with hyperspace jumps.

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79
The patrol frigate Bloodprice bore the colours of the Prakith navy and the crest of Governor Foga Brill. both were more prominent than the sigil of the Imperial Moff for Sector 5, which was consigned to the armour panel above the frigate's chin turrets.
The displays mirrored the allegiances felt by Captain Ors Dogot and his crew of nearly four hundred. The officers owed their commissions and their postings to Brill, not to Grand Moff Gann. It was Brill who collected the commission fees and the annual posting assessments. It was Brill who paid off favours to wealthy families with command ranks that drew pay in goods and gold instead of Prakith scrip.
the specialists and ratings, draftees all, owed the security of their families to Brill's promise of the protection of the Red Police for the daughters and wives of those who protected his power with his lives. To be drafted into the navy was a far better thing than to be drafted into the slit mines or the foundaries, or to be one of the hundreds rousted nightly from the riverbanks in Prall and Skoth to dig their own graves.

Reveals much about the political and ecnomic conditions in Sector 5, a decaying region within the Imperial-held Deep Core.

82-83
Except for blind spots caused by Bloodprice and the drag gondala, the towed array could scan serveral light-hours in every direction. As the outermost of Prakith's three concentric spheres of defence, the first purpose of the deep patrol was to detect possible military threats long before they could come near the planet. For that reason, the ship's patrol route took it through the most likely final staging areas for an attack on Prakith, outside the range of its ground-based and orbiting sensors.
...
"Range?"
"Three-point-eight light-hours --- nearly at the limit of detection. "

Indicates range of Bloodprice sensor gondala.

85
"Keeping the oxygen pressure low and the carbon-dioxide high protects the ship from fire, the exhibits from corrosion. Imperial Star Destroyers flood key equipment compartments with an N-CO2 mixture before going into battle."

Fire-safety measures aboard Imperial warships.

300
At the centre was Doman Beruss, the crystal pyramid and striker resting near his hand.

Senator Doman Beruss chairs a meeting of the Ruling Council of the Senate of the Galactic Republic. Beruss is male at this time.

320
Taggar flew a steady line as he read the reports from R2-R on his cockpit display.
IDENTIFIED: ARAMADIA-CLASS THRUSTSHIP
IDENTIFIED: ARAMADIA-CLASS THRUSTSHIP
IDENTIFIED: VICTORY-CLASS STAR DESTROYER
IDENTIFIED: ARAMADIA-CLASS THRUSTSHIP
IDENTIFIED: IMPERIAL-CLASS STAR DESTROYER
IDENTIFIED: EXECUTOR-CLASS STAR DESTROYER
The list grew longer as N'zoth grew larger ahead.

Lieutenant Rone Taggar's recon droid records captial ships at N'zoth. Note the designation Executor-class vessel; indicates that the "Super star destroyer" term is really a colloquial designation.

323
"That could be the Redoubtable," he muttered, consulting his lists. "It's definitely early Imperial-class, despite the modifications to the forward superstructure---"

Naming of one of the Yevethan star destroyers; a ship with significant, though undescribed, modifications to its forward end.

323
The buzz turned into a dark murmur a few seconds later, when the view from Number 1 changed and another, sleeker dagger shape snapped into focus. There was hardly a person in the room who could not identify that profile, and the exceptions quickly learned the significance in a hasty whisper from a companion: there was a Super Star Destroyer in orbit around N'zoth.
From the beginning, the New Republic had opted to build a larger number of smaller vessels---Fleet carriers, Republic-class Star Destroyers, battle cruisers---rather than adopt the Imperial design philosophy. Mon Mothma had given orders to scrap rather than repair or make a museum piece of the sole SSD captured from the Empire. Consequently, the eight-kilometre-long behemoth circling N'zoth had anything in the New Republic Fleet badly outgunned.
"Now, that, that can only be Intimidator," Nylykerka pronounced. "All of the late-production Super-class had that additional shield tower located on the centreline---"

A SSD a N'zoth is on display. All of the largest vessels in the New Republic Fleet are smaller than an SSD. Reiterates the five-mile fallacy of SSD length. Distinctive feature of late-production SSDs is mentioned. Reversion to "Super-class" term, but spoken in excited, colloquial circumstances.
continuity: Is this the Lusankya? Lusankya was kept and used by the New Republic for several years, at least as late as the year after Dark Empire, in Crimson Empire and probably in the time of I, Jedi as well. On the other hand, the Lusankya may have been a possession of the system or planetary governments of Thyferra, and not formally at Mothma's disposal. Isard's Revenge suggests that the use of Lusankya was an official secret.

323-324
There were Star Destroyers at Wakiza, at Zhina, at New Brigia and Doornik 881, where the Imperial factory farm had been. The Yevethan fleet at Morning Bell now numbered at least sixteen vessels, including four Star Destroyers, six Aramadia-class thrustships, and a queer-looking Dreadnaught-scale ship, which Nylykerka excitedly identified as a long-missing Imperial testbed, the EX-F. Other thrustships seemed to be everywhere---orbiting all the other Duskhan League worlds, at Polneye and the former Morath mining operation on Kojash.
Conspicuously missing from the entry scans were the three Imperial shipyards named in Lieutenant Sconn's deposition: Black Fifteen, which had been located in orbit at N'zoth; Black Eleven, which had been at Zhina; and Black Eight, at Wakiza.

Distribution and designation of some Yevethan warships in other systems.

Shield of Lies
PAGE	QUOTATION	COMMENTS
16	Three ships were racing for search stations along the vagabond's last heading; Lightning ten light years out, Glorious twenty, and Marauder thirty. The improvised plan called for them to drop sensor buoys with hypercomm repeaters at those entry points and then begin making short jumps out to the limits of sensor range, hoping to catch a glimpse of their quarry. The precision of the plan did not mask its weakness --- its slim chance of success depended on the vagabond's making a single short jump. If it followed a short jump with a second jump on another heading, where there were no eyes or sensors to track --- or if it carried the first jump out fifty, a hundred, five hundred light-years, beyond the borders of the New Republic and into the chaos of the Core --- ...	Indication of sensor and communications capabilities, scale of hyperspace jumps; hypercomm capabilities. Also indicates proximity of vagabond to Imperial hold-out territory in the Deep Core. Also hints that Deep Core region must be greater than five hundred light-years across.
28	... they heard a deep, rumbling groan from the ship, a sound that had no direction. Though the surroundings were alien, the sound was familiar --- the signature of a form of stress that aged large vessels' hulls and led to a spectacular form of self-destruction known as an exit breach. It was the exit growl, the characteristic sound caused by portions of the ship emerging from hyperspace nanoseconds before the rest as the jump field collapsed.	Explains exit growl associated with hyperspace jumps.
40-41
79	The patrol frigate Bloodprice bore the colours of the Prakith navy and the crest of Governor Foga Brill. both were more prominent than the sigil of the Imperial Moff for Sector 5, which was consigned to the armour panel above the frigate's chin turrets. The displays mirrored the allegiances felt by Captain Ors Dogot and his crew of nearly four hundred. The officers owed their commissions and their postings to Brill, not to Grand Moff Gann. It was Brill who collected the commission fees and the annual posting assessments. It was Brill who paid off favours to wealthy families with command ranks that drew pay in goods and gold instead of Prakith scrip. the specialists and ratings, draftees all, owed the security of their families to Brill's promise of the protection of the Red Police for the daughters and wives of those who protected his power with his lives. To be drafted into the navy was a far better thing than to be drafted into the slit mines or the foundaries, or to be one of the hundreds rousted nightly from the riverbanks in Prall and Skoth to dig their own graves.	Reveals much about the political and ecnomic conditions in Sector 5, a decaying region within the Imperial-held Deep Core.
82-83	Except for blind spots caused by Bloodprice and the drag gondala, the towed array could scan serveral light-hours in every direction. As the outermost of Prakith's three concentric spheres of defence, the first purpose of the deep patrol was to detect possible military threats long before they could come near the planet. For that reason, the ship's patrol route took it through the most likely final staging areas for an attack on Prakith, outside the range of its ground-based and orbiting sensors. ... "Range?" "Three-point-eight light-hours --- nearly at the limit of detection. "	Indicates range of Bloodprice sensor gondala.
85	"Keeping the oxygen pressure low and the carbon-dioxide high protects the ship from fire, the exhibits from corrosion. Imperial Star Destroyers flood key equipment compartments with an N-CO2 mixture before going into battle."	Fire-safety measures aboard Imperial warships.
300	At the centre was Doman Beruss, the crystal pyramid and striker resting near his hand.	Senator Doman Beruss chairs a meeting of the Ruling Council of the Senate of the Galactic Republic. Beruss is male at this time.
320	Taggar flew a steady line as he read the reports from R2-R on his cockpit display. IDENTIFIED: ARAMADIA-CLASS THRUSTSHIP IDENTIFIED: ARAMADIA-CLASS THRUSTSHIP IDENTIFIED: VICTORY-CLASS STAR DESTROYER IDENTIFIED: ARAMADIA-CLASS THRUSTSHIP IDENTIFIED: IMPERIAL-CLASS STAR DESTROYER IDENTIFIED: EXECUTOR-CLASS STAR DESTROYER The list grew longer as N'zoth grew larger ahead.	Lieutenant Rone Taggar's recon droid records captial ships at N'zoth. Note the designation Executor-class vessel; indicates that the "Super star destroyer" term is really a colloquial designation.
323	"That could be the Redoubtable," he muttered, consulting his lists. "It's definitely early Imperial-class, despite the modifications to the forward superstructure---"	Naming of one of the Yevethan star destroyers; a ship with significant, though undescribed, modifications to its forward end.
323	The buzz turned into a dark murmur a few seconds later, when the view from Number 1 changed and another, sleeker dagger shape snapped into focus. There was hardly a person in the room who could not identify that profile, and the exceptions quickly learned the significance in a hasty whisper from a companion: there was a Super Star Destroyer in orbit around N'zoth. From the beginning, the New Republic had opted to build a larger number of smaller vessels---Fleet carriers, Republic-class Star Destroyers, battle cruisers---rather than adopt the Imperial design philosophy. Mon Mothma had given orders to scrap rather than repair or make a museum piece of the sole SSD captured from the Empire. Consequently, the eight-kilometre-long behemoth circling N'zoth had anything in the New Republic Fleet badly outgunned. "Now, that, that can only be Intimidator," Nylykerka pronounced. "All of the late-production Super-class had that additional shield tower located on the centreline---"	A SSD a N'zoth is on display. All of the largest vessels in the New Republic Fleet are smaller than an SSD. Reiterates the five-mile fallacy of SSD length. Distinctive feature of late-production SSDs is mentioned. Reversion to "Super-class" term, but spoken in excited, colloquial circumstances. continuity: Is this the Lusankya? Lusankya was kept and used by the New Republic for several years, at least as late as the year after Dark Empire, in Crimson Empire and probably in the time of I, Jedi as well. On the other hand, the Lusankya may have been a possession of the system or planetary governments of Thyferra, and not formally at Mothma's disposal. Isard's Revenge suggests that the use of Lusankya was an official secret.
323-324	There were Star Destroyers at Wakiza, at Zhina, at New Brigia and Doornik 881, where the Imperial factory farm had been. The Yevethan fleet at Morning Bell now numbered at least sixteen vessels, including four Star Destroyers, six Aramadia-class thrustships, and a queer-looking Dreadnaught-scale ship, which Nylykerka excitedly identified as a long-missing Imperial testbed, the EX-F. Other thrustships seemed to be everywhere---orbiting all the other Duskhan League worlds, at Polneye and the former Morath mining operation on Kojash. Conspicuously missing from the entry scans were the three Imperial shipyards named in Lieutenant Sconn's deposition: Black Fifteen, which had been located in orbit at N'zoth; Black Eleven, which had been at Zhina; and Black Eight, at Wakiza.	Distribution and designation of some Yevethan warships in other systems.

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