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If you dropped a Le Fantastique or Tribal class destroyer into the Napoleonic Wars it would be bristling with firepower and clad top to toe in armor for line battles as it slags anything smaller. Doesn't mean it's not an escort in its proper context. You aren't calibrating your notion of ship...

But Star Destroyers are not capital ships. We can tell because they run about without escorts and in turn act as escorts for the only definitive capital ship we see. The Imperators are pretty clearly presence destroyers: large escorts with the facilities for peacetime show the flag missions...