Interdictors were also used around blockaded planets where outgoing traffic was heavily monitored, preventing those wanted by the empire from just escaping into hyperspace.Īlthough they proved themselves quite useful, their various vulnerabilities and mounting operational expenses resulted in the Imperial Navy phasing them out starting in 0 ABY. Any vessels they pulled from hyperspace would either be inspected thoroughly or, if proven to be hostile, obliterated outright.
They relied on their enormous gravity well projectors, which simulated the mass shadow of a planet, to rip vessels out of hyperspace. Designed some time before 14 BBY, at which point the it was considered “state of the art”, the Imperial Navy used these vessels throughout the Outer Rim territories, having them patrol areas of space along hyperspace lanes likely to be used by rebel forces. Tthe Interdictor-class star destroyer was part of a series of experimental Interdictor cruisers developed by the Galactic Empire.
