Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The Venator Class Star Destroyer was the ship that won the Clone Wars, yet go to any scrapyard in the years after the conflict, and you'd likely see dozens of them slowly being taken apart. How did the Empire justify scrapping one of the best ships it ever deployed?

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