# Star Wars—How long have Imperial Star Destroyers operating in planetary atmospheres been a thing?

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**Created:** [September 25, 2016, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-how-long-have-imperial-star-destroyers-operating-in-planetary-atmospheres-been-a-thing/766807 "2016-09-25T10:47:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-how-long-have-imperial-star-destroyers-operating-in-planetary-atmospheres-been-a-thing/766807/21 "2016-09-27T07:23:05Z")

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Well, one of the more hardware-heavy comic books, Cam Kennedy’s _Dark Empire_ (largely ignored by subsequent stories) had all sorts of ships in the atmosphere, including [Star Destroyers](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Empire_II).

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-how-long-have-imperial-star-destroyers-operating-in-planetary-atmospheres-been-a-thing/766807/22 "2016-09-27T08:50:55Z")

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The Super Star Destroyer [Lusankya](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lusankya), sister ship of Vader’s _Executor_ was buried on the capital world of Coruscant, and later left under its own power killing millions of people in the process. So it certainly had no problems traversing the atmosphere.

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-how-long-have-imperial-star-destroyers-operating-in-planetary-atmospheres-been-a-thing/766807/23 "2016-09-30T00:34:55Z")

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> [@The\_Tooth](#):
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> Yeah, it makes no sense to build these things on the ground. But it gave Kirk something to look at while he thought about joining Starfleet.

These are the same people that gave Voyager landing gear…

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