The "hood", our largest and also our fastest capital ship, had been blown up .
Is it a capital ship?
Though primarily designed to aid capital ship gunnery, a TIE/fc can also provide targeting data to fellow TIE fighters.
These defenses were designed against large scale threats, such as capital ship attacks, and were too ponderous to track fast-moving vessels such as Alliance starfighters.
Tip: Your first capital ship will be built for free, every one afterwards will be full price.