It has been some time since I've watched them, so I do not remember a precise number (or know which episode to look for one) but a particular space battle dealt with at least a dozen capital ships, if not more, as opposed to the 3 venators we usually see in the clone wars 2008. The 2003-era Clone Wars miniseries had a much better approach to describing scale. If we take the figure to be 1%, we arrive at 20 thousand ships (not star destroyers, mind you) which is a respectable number for a galaxy largely at peace.Ĭould the navy be expanded tenfold by the time of the battle of Endor, it is hard to say for certain, but considering they built a Death Star ≈ 1.77×10 15m 3 in volume in about twenty years, I would think it is not beyond the realm of possibility.ĮDIT: At the time of writing this comment, I forgot to mention this, but a comment further in the thread brought it to mind. it is hard for me to judge what percentage of ships would constitute an "acceptible loss", but even if we assume that to be 5% - we're looking at four thousand ships. To be sure, it was considered a nasty loss, but not an insurmountable one.įrom this, I would gather that the Republic had considerably more than a thousand ships. Anecdotal evidence indicates that 200 cruisers were considered a modest fleet, but its ultimate loss did not cripple the Republic navy of that time.
The Thrawn Trilogy makes numerous mentions of the Dark Force-a fleet of 200 Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers, which were launched some time before the clone wars. The following is my personal opinion, grounded in obscure lore but not otherwise confirmed (nor denied!) elsewhere. There exists an opinion that the Republic did not have anything resembling a military before the Clones popped up out of no-where, but if you follow this track, I don't think the Kaminoans or Kuat Drive Yards could pull close to two hundred thousand ships out of no-where. It is a lot harder to come up with numbers for the clone wars, and any estimations will depend on which sources you believe and how much creative license you are willing to tolerate. If we take Thrawn's Sluis Van fleet as a general point of reference, we can argue that for 25k ISDs, there would be AT LEAST 150+ thousand light-medium weight cruisers in the imperial military. I have previously written a minor essay on this topic, but, as others have said, no solid numbers exist and it is fairly hard to estimate them.Ĭertain EU sources cite the Empire, at its height, having twenty-five thousand Imperial-type star destroyers - not counting support ships.
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