The Verdant-class battleship was specialized to heavy combat against the Yuuzhan Vong threat and centred around carrying a larger number of powerful Assault Starfighters to counter the flexible Coralskippers piloted by the Yuuzhan Vong, many within the New Republic noted that the design of the ship was almost exactly to the Valor-class cruiser that was in Republic service three-and-a-half thousand years ago.