Ship of the Week: Malevolence

[SuperSaiyaMan12]

Length: 5000 meters long
Width: 1000 meters wide
Height: 1200 meters tall
Hyperdrive Rating: Unknown
Armanent: Specialized Ion Weapons (x2), nearly 400 turbolaser cannons, Vulture-class Droids
Compliment: Unknown

From the new Clone Wars animated series, this is the flagship of the CIS early in the war. Its massive Ion Cannons can disable three ships at once, completely shutting down all systems enabling it's massive compliment of turbolasers and Vulture Droids to destroy said ship.

[JudgeKing]

However, anything maneuverable could easily dodge its ion weapons. It has a lot of firepower, but suffers from lack of maneuverability which kills the utility of its ion weaponry. Though it compensates with a large amount of fire (which is again killed by lack of accuracy).

[Mikey]

anything maneuverable could easily dodge its ion weapons.

They don't have to be that maneuverable; Y-wings were able.

I thought it was a good precursor design to the Invisible Hand, but th ion weapons being perpendicular to the axis of travel was weird, and the bridge is up on a friggin' strut away from and above the hull!

[Captain Seafort]

I thought it was a good precursor design to the Invisible Hand, but th ion weapons being perpendicular to the axis of travel was weird, and the bridge is up on a friggin' strut away from and above the hull!

That's hardly unusual - that's the one major flaw of Wars ships. Every single capital ship we've seen, from the Devastator onwards, has had its bridge stuck up on a tower where it's an easy target.

[Sionnach Glic]

Has the series started already? I hadn't heard a thing about it.

[SuperSaiyaMan12]

Has the series started already? I hadn't heard a thing about it.

It started on October 3rd.

[Sionnach Glic]

You learn something new everyday.
Is it as bad as I anticipated?

[Reliant121]

Hmm....Not exactly the best i have seen. I like the fact that its a relatively obvious precursor to the invisible hand, but thats about it.

[Mark]

What channel???

[SuperSaiyaMan12]

You learn something new everyday.
Is it as bad as I anticipated?

Actually, its getting pretty good with the latest episode. Ashoka is still incredibly annoying though.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

What channel???

Cartoon Network, IIRC.

And Mon Cal cruisers didn't have bridge towers, IIRC.

[SuperSaiyaMan12]

What channel???

Cartoon Network, IIRC.

And Mon Cal cruisers didn't have bridge towers, IIRC.

Well the Home One did have a small one.

[Sionnach Glic]

I'll keep an eye out for it.

As for the Malevolence itself, it's not bad, but there's still plenty of problems with the design.

[Mikey]

As I said, it is nice at least to see some thought put into the design based on what it's canon successors look like.

I'll keep an eye out for it.

After you see it, you'll want to PUT an eye out.

No indication of Anakin's ambivalence or precursors of his leaning toward the Dark Side, save for a headstrong streak; Plo Koon is constantly willing to sit and let Skywalker do whatever he wants, even when he disagrees; Ashoka makes you want to drop-kick her like a rugby ball; and Greivous is portrayed as a buffoonish, foiled-every-ep cartton villain.

[Sionnach Glic]

In that case I don't think I'll bother.