Liberty (Venator-class)

The Liberty was a Venator-class Star Destroyer that served as a command ship by the Galactic Republic's Fifth Fleet, of the Republic Navy's Open Circle Fleet. The command ship and flagship of Jedi General Aayla Secura and her Republic task force during the Clone Wars by 21 BBY, the Liberty was deployed to the planet Quell in that year, where it and Secura's three other Venators were attacked by a Separatist Alliance squadron of five Munificent-class star frigates. Led by the T-series tactical droid TF-1726, the lead Venator was inflicted extensive damage by the Separatist squadron, while the other two Star Destroyers were destroyed, bringing Jedi General Anakin Skywalker to the Quell system aboard the Venator-class Star Destroyer Resolute from across the galaxy.

With Skywalker's arrival, the Jedi Knight and several clone troopers began boarding Secura's flagship to rescue her, after several B2-RP super battle droids entered through the breaches in the hull. Boarding the Liberty, Skywalker arranged for a retrofitted Consular-class cruiser to dock in the lower hangar, where the Jedi and the remaining clone troopers proceeded to escape to. While escaping, however, a series of explosions were induced in the Star Destroyer by heavy turbolaser fire from the Separatist frigates, seriously injuring Skywalker before he was brought aboard the Republic frigate. Off the doomed Liberty, Secura's flagship then began to careen towards Quell's surface in a fiery wreck.

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