Fun Fact: One of the recent updates revamped the entire Mon Cala line of ships.I KID YOU NOT HE TURNED HIMSELF INTO A PIC.There is also a green version of it (needs proof). The actual Star Defender is a dev ship.It is essentially an Excubitor but minus the pain of grinding out the carrier line and probably having more shielding.Get a good carrier to fight off its carrier wing.Use missiles as its PD is relatively slow firing.A good strategy for many is to use one of the sniper trinity (Sagittarius, Viery, and Onager) combined with the ROF boosts of Ginga and/or Chimaera or a passive imperial ROF boost like that of the Devastator.(Don't forget its Rebel version of the Imperial heavy PD and the scramble button exist.)

Send some over on intercept and when those fighters are dead, have fun taking down this behemoth.

If the shields drop, it’s generally game over for it. Either ensure you are in a position to bombard UNSC craft and enemy shieldbreakers, or sit behind cover in the middle of your team to support them against the plane menace. Should the enemy focus with MACs or Ion Cannon, your shields will fold up disconcertingly quickly, and you will be dead in short order. At the same time, this ship is not invulnerable.Its shield stress system allows it to suffer fighter assault fairly well and get away with it, indeed it most likely will win a fight against even an Ark Royal due to its bristling array of air defense guns and decently strong airwing. It has enough weapons to compete with most ships and in a DPS duel will still win most of the time due to its high survivability. A traditionalist carrier sitting behind cover or a fleet leader serving as a target and counter to carriers. Generally speaking, this has two sides.Although a prototype version that had been severely downsized, this particular Viscount bristles with enough firepower to break the back of the toughest ships through sheer volume alone, serving as a superbly defendable carrier and general flagship. A true leviathan of Mon Calamari's deep oceans that clawed its way to the void of space, the Viscount Star Defender series of ships was designed as the ultimate fleet aegis, one that would stand in direct opposition to the empire's ultimate spearhead, the legendary Executor Class.

Viscount class star defender