Basically a smaller version of the Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer, the Sovereign-class vessel was nevertheless a monstrosity armed to the teeth. At 15,000 meters in length, this warship from the Dark Empire comic book series boasted a weapons complement of one superlaser cannon mounted along the lengthwise axis, 500 heavy laser cannons, 500 turbolaser batteries, 75 ion cannons, 100 tractor beam emitters, and five gravity well generators. In short, its capabilities were only slightly different from those of its Eclipse-class cousin, which was also a Kuat Drive Yards design. However, the two vessels featured radically differing shapes, the Sovereign having far less graceful lines. Angular fins defined the polygonal silhouette, whereas long lines tinged with hints of curves characterized the Eclipse. The two classes also differed in crew capacity; the Sovereign carried 601,670 with 4,075 gunners, slightly fewer than the Eclipse, as well as a somewhat smaller number of fighter and ground assault craft. It appears that after only four examples of the Sovereign class were built or at least commissioned to be built (the Sovereign, Autarch, Heresiarch, and Despot), the program was canceled due to the fall of the reborn emperor. The fate of these ships, never canon (in the sense of having been in the movie trilogy) themselves in the first place, remains debatable; it is another non-canon source which reveals that they were destroyed.