Tide of Progress

The Tide of Progress was a Seperatist battleship in service during the Clone War. Despite not being very powerful it was fitted with extra shielding to allow it to get in close to larger warships and deploy fighters to board them. The Tide of Progress spawned several more ships with the name 'Tide of Progress', the last of which was named 'Tide of Progess XII'. Each one was fitted with the same shield boosts to protect it from turbolaser damage.

During the Battle of Coruscant the Tide of Progess went up against several Republic ships at once, offloading all its fighters before pulling back to be covered by the Invisible Hand. However, the Hand was reeling from a broadside point-blank range attack from the Republic Star Destroyer Guarlara, which severely damaged the Invisble Hand and left the Tide of Progress without backup. As the commander of the ship, an OOM-series Battle Droid, calculated the best course of action, a stray proton torpedo impacted the Tide of Progess's bridge, incinerating the entire command crew and dooming the ship. As it descended towards the city-world of Coruscant it crashed at an almost vertical angle into an office block, killing thousands of civilians as both ship and tower were ripped apart.