The Supernova was a capital ship design of immense proportions, carrying a superlaser capable of devastating most capital ships, and hidden by an Electron shield that was powerful enough to resist the mightiest of conventional turbolasers. The Supernova was so large, an inner magnetic levitation train system was used to travel onboard. Being twenty kilometers long, the Supernova carried a vast crew, and an extensive army of battle droids and soldiers supporting the Second Confederacy of Independent Systems was held in the cabin of the unbelievably large ship. The design was proposed by Darth Monarchist during the gathering height of the Second Clone War, and construction on the mammoth starship halted much other development of CIS II-controlled worlds to build the dream superweapon quickly