Originally designed by the Kuati Drive Yards in 3,967 BBY, the Supernova-class served as a heavy support and command ship for the Old Republic and later Sith Navy. Resembling a sort of armored fish from its front, it was not unlike the ships produced by the Mon Calamari. Its massive size – 1,600 meters – and the durasteel arcs, for lack of a better term, above and below the engines, however, likened it more to the traditional capital ships produced by the KDY. A ship of this class later served as the Sith Lord Arkus Black’s flagship.